How to Use The Edits App_ Easy Video Editing for Reels & Shorts (Beginner-Friendly Tutorial)

If you’ve downloaded Instagram’s Edits app, opened it, and immediately wondered what all those buttons are for, this video will help.

The Edits app gives you more than a place to edit videos. It also includes tools for saving Reel ideas, organizing inspiration, recording content, and checking your Instagram insights. But when you first open the app, it isn’t always obvious where everything lives or which features you actually need.

In this beginner-friendly walkthrough, I’ll show you how to use the Instagram Edits app and get comfortable with the main areas before you start editing your first video. You’ll see how the app is laid out, where your projects live, and how some of the built-in planning tools can make creating Reels a little less scattered.

What can you do inside the Instagram Edits app?

One of the useful things about Edits is that Instagram has brought several parts of the content creation process into one app.

You can keep track of Reel ideas instead of filling your camera roll with screenshots you’ll probably never look at again. You can access Reels you’ve already saved on Instagram, browse content for inspiration, record new video, and view Instagram performance data without jumping back and forth between as many screens.

If you’re new to Edits, this video is a good place to start before learning the actual editing tools. You’ll understand what the main buttons do, where to find the features you need, and how the app can fit into your Reel planning and creation process