From a human reaction to your next edit

1. Preview the movement

Start with the public samples on the homepage. Hover on desktop or tap a sample to play it. Look beyond the cover image: check when the expression starts, how the face moves and whether the available crop suits your canvas.

These are compressed samples, not the original files. The public set is intentionally small. Full catalog browsing requires the one-time purchase.

2. Create an account and unlock the collection

Use Google or your email address to sign in. The email option sends a temporary code rather than asking you to invent a password. Complete the short onboarding, then purchase access through the account flow.

Once payment is confirmed, use the same account to return to the library. If a checkout was interrupted, check your account status before paying again. For a completed payment that does not appear, contact support with the email used at checkout.

3. Choose a clip for a particular cut

Search by creator when you want several expressions from the same person. Use reaction categories when the feeling is the main requirement. Open the clip details to inspect the original dimensions and duration.

Save a short list rather than downloading everything. Compare each candidate against the same product recording. A quieter expression with clear timing may be easier to use than a dramatic one with an awkward crop.

• Check the expression at full speed.
• Choose an in-point just before the useful movement.
• Leave room for the caption and product transition.
• Inspect the original before committing to an export.

4. Put the product action on the timeline

Place the reaction before your own demo, or use it as a brief cutaway. Keep the product large enough to read. Add one short opening line if it helps; remove it before the interface gets busy.

For a first draft, try two seconds of reaction, six seconds of product action and two seconds holding the result. Adjust to the actual movement rather than forcing the footage into those numbers. This is a starting storyboard, not a performance formula.

5. Watch the exported file

A preview inside an editor is not the final video. Export a draft and watch it on a phone, once silently and once with sound. Check the face crop, small interface text, transitions and the final instruction.

Before posting, read the usage information and make sure the finished sequence does not invent a customer experience. Keep your project file and source filenames so you can change an opening without rebuilding the middle.

Worked example: one feature, start to finish

Here is how the five steps might look for a proposed edit: an illustrative budgeting app that reads a paper receipt and fills in the expense, cut as a vertical Reel of about ten seconds.

• Write the action first: point the phone at a crumpled receipt, tap once, watch the amount appear. Save it as a clean screen recording.
• Decide what the opening must set up: the small dread of a pile of receipts. Browse the confused and surprised categories rather than happy ones.
• Shortlist three clips. Drop any horizontal original that would lose the face when cropped to vertical, unless you plan a split layout.
• Start about half a second before the expression turns. Hold it for roughly two seconds under “Twelve receipts. One evening.”
• Cut on the movement into the recording. Let the scan play at real speed, then hold the result for two seconds with “Scan it. Done.”
• Export and watch on a muted phone. Check that the receipt text is readable and the caption clears the app’s buttons.

Where first drafts usually go wrong

Notice what the example does not say. The caption never claims the person in the clip uses the app. The reaction sets up a familiar problem; your recording shows the answer.

Most early problems sit at one step. Fix that step and leave the rest alone. Once one version works, keep the middle and swap only the opening to make variations.

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