Guide
Reel types, and how to ask for one
Social Autopilot makes reels in three styles. Each has a name, so you can tell your flow which one you want. Leave it on Mix and it varies them across the week.
01
Split screen product reel
- Best for
- Showing a product or service working, step by step.
- What it looks like
- A headline stays at the top with each step appearing as a card under it. The bottom half shows the tool doing that step, line by line. It opens on a map of every step, then moves into the first.
- Length
- 23 to 35 seconds
- Choose in setup
- Split screen
02
Kinetic reel
- Best for
- Naming a problem your customers have, or making one point hit hard.
- What it looks like
- Big words that punch in on the beat, quick cuts between a light and a dark ground, cards and counters that fly in, with captions on throughout.
- Length
- 23 to 35 seconds
- Choose in setup
- Kinetic
03
Flow journey
- Best for
- Explaining how one piece of your service runs from start to finish.
- What it looks like
- One animated panel: the trigger at the top, then up to five steps that tick off in order, ending on the outcome. It loops cleanly.
- Length
- About 18 seconds
- Choose in setup
- Flow journey
How to choose
- Open Social Autopilot's setup in your dashboard and go to the interview step.
- Set how many of your weekly posts should be reels.
- Pick a reel type, or leave it on Mix.
What every reel keeps to
- Captions are always on.
- Your own brand colours, fonts and logo, from your brand kit.
- The real logo of any tool shown, never a letter in a box.
- No invented customers, results, reviews or numbers.
- Nothing is scheduled until three frames have been checked.
What your Claude needs
A reel is made when your Claude can render video in that run, or when you have connected Higgsfield. When it cannot, the flow saves the script and a shot by shot storyboard instead and says so in its report.