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 # Reel
 
-Turns a Narrator mp3 and a few pictures into a YouTube or TikTok video, with motion comic moves and timed subtitles. One HTML page, runs on this computer, no account.
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+Turns a Narrator mp3 and a handful of pictures into a finished video for YouTube or TikTok. One HTML page that runs on your own computer in the browser. No account, no uploads, no watermark.
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+## How to use
+
+1. Download Reel.html and open it in Brave or Chrome.
+2. Click Choose MP3 and pick the mp3 you made in Narrator. The video is exactly as long as the audio.
+3. Drag your pictures in. Use the arrows to reorder them and X to remove one.
+4. Pick how often the pictures change and a style: Motion comic (punch-ins, slides, shakes, comic panels) or Calm (slow zoom and fade).
+5. Pick the shape: For YouTube (horizontal) or For TikTok (vertical).
+6. For subtitles, choose the subtitle file Narrator saves with "Save subtitles (for Reel)", or paste the text.
+7. Click Play 20 second preview to check the movement, then Make Video, then Save MP4.
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+Work saves itself in the browser as you go, and Save project / Open project keeps a file for each video.
+
+## Files
+
+- Reel.html: the whole app, one file. Works with [Narrator](https://git.bloggin.space/weishaupt/Narrator).