Turn a video into a swipeable photo carousel

Overview

Choose a video and decide how to pick the frames. By hand, you scrub to each moment and add it, which suits a story with a beginning, middle and end. Evenly spaced takes 3, 5 or 10 frames at equal intervals through the clip, which is the quick way to summarise a walk, a build or a recipe. A carousel can hold up to 20 frames, the limit Instagram sets for a post, and each frame is saved as its own photo.

Pick the shape before saving: as shot keeps the video's own proportions, while 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16 crop every frame to the same aspect ratio so the slides line up as one post. All frames are saved together, in order, so you can upload them as a set. Processing is done on your device from the full-resolution video, nothing is uploaded, and the original clip is not changed in any way.

A carousel lets a viewer stop on the step they need, which a video playing past them does not. Video carousel is the shortcut from a clip you already have to that format: a before, during and after, five stages of a sketch, ten frames of a trick. The photos go to My files free; saving them straight to your gallery is part of Premium.