Do ReelCraft templates really time themselves to the beat?

Yes. One-tap templates are auto-timed to the beat — you drop in your clips and the cuts land where the music does.

Can I use my own music instead of the built-in library?

Yes. Music is a layer on the multi-track timeline, so you can bring in your own track or use the built-in library and treat either the same way.

What if the beat does not line up once I swap clips?

Use the frame-accurate playhead. Pinch to zoom for a closer view, then nudge the clip until the cut lands on the beat you hear.

How to Sync Video Clips to the Beat | ReelCraft

Frequently asked questions

Do ReelCraft templates really time themselves to the beat?: Yes. One-tap templates are auto-timed to the beat — you drop in your clips and the cuts land where the music does.
Can I use my own music instead of the built-in library?: Yes. Music is a layer on the multi-track timeline, so you can bring in your own track or use the built-in library and treat either the same way.
What if the beat does not line up once I swap clips?: Use the frame-accurate playhead. Pinch to zoom for a closer view, then nudge the clip until the cut lands on the beat you hear.

The automatic route: one-tap templates

ReelCraft ships templates for travel, food, vlogs and promos that are auto-timed to the beat. The workflow is deliberately short:

Pick a template.
Drop your clips into the slots.
The cuts already sit where the music does.

That is the whole feature. It exists because beat-matching by eye is the single slowest part of editing a short-form video, and it is the part that makes a clip look intentional.

The manual route: the timeline

When a template is not enough — or your clip lengths do not suit it — music is just another layer on a multi-track timeline:

Layer video, text, music, stickers and effects independently
Split, trim, speed-ramp, reverse and keyframe any layer
A frame-accurate playhead with pinch-to-zoom, so you can see the individual frame a cut sits on rather than approximating

Split on the downbeat, trim to the length of the beat, repeat. The frame-accurate playhead is what makes this checkable: you can zoom to a single frame and confirm the cut is where you think it is.

Why the zoom matters more than it sounds

Most editors show you the cut point in approximate time. When a track is 120 BPM, an error of a few frames is audible — it reads as a clip that is slightly early or slightly late, which is the difference between a video that feels locked to the music and one that feels like it is drifting near it.