Source: https://grigorets.com/studio/guides/turn-phone-footage-into-reels-without-editing AI Editing Studio / Guide / Phone footage to Reels in your own style # How to turn raw phone footage into a finished Reel in your own style, without editing software By Artem Grigorets · Updated November 11, 2026 ## Short answer To get Reels in your own style without editing them yourself, use a tool that remembers the style. Submagic, OpusClip and Captions save your fonts, colors and caption look; MakeYours and Shorty copy the edit of a reference Reel; AI Editing Studio reuses a style you build on your computer. Stanley Studio and MakeAIReel restyle each video by chat. Most of these tools edit automatically. What decides whether every Reel looks like yours is where your style lives between videos: in a saved kit, in a reference video, or only in what you type each time. Disclosure: I make AI Editing Studio. Facts about the other tools come from their own product, pricing or help pages, linked in each section and checked on November 11, 2026; prices can change. I have not tested their output against each other. ## What “your own style” means in practice - Type. Your font, its size and weight, where captions sit. - Color. Caption text, the highlighted word, backgrounds and overlays. - Caption behavior. Words per line, how words animate in, emojis or none. - Pacing. How tight the cuts are, how often the frame punches in. - Sound. Your music bed and the pops and whooshes under text. - Recurring formats. The same opener, end card or series layout. A tool keeps your style only if it stores those choices and applies them to the next upload. On the official pages below, saved kits mostly hold type, color and logos; pacing and sound tend to come from a reference video or from a style you build yourself. ## The short version Tool | How it keeps your style | Where it runs | Price or plan (November 2026) Submagic | Brand Kit stores typography, colors and caption styles; custom templates and fonts | Web (submagic.co) | Free start; Brand Kit on Pro, $23/member/month billed yearly OpusClip | Brand templates with your colors, fonts and logo; a default template applies to all projects | Web | Free plan with 1 template; Pro $29/month Captions | Saved custom caption templates; AI Edit uses preset styles plus a custom color | Captions app and web | Free version; Max $24.99/month (iOS) Descript | Your scenes saved as layout packs; Brand Studio holds fonts, colors and layouts for a team | Mac and Windows app, web | Free plan; paid plans CapCut templates | Swap your clips into a template; publish your own edit as a template with replaceable clips | Mobile, desktop and web | Free plan; paid prices after sign-in MakeYours | Copies a reference Reel's text design, zooms, reframes and sound effects onto your clip | Online, no install | 1 free trial edit; from €14.99/month Shorty | A reference video guides shot structure, pacing, transitions and colour | Browser | Paid plans; one-time $9 credit pack Stanley Studio | Caption look picked per edit (clean, bold pop or highlight); no saved style described | studio.getstanley.ai | Free plan; Pro price not listed MakeAIReel | Brand kit holds your colour and contact details; the look changes per chat request | makeaireel.com | 1 free reel a day; Starter $10 per 30 days AI Editing Studio | A style you build or recreate with your fonts, colors and sounds, reused for every new video | Your computer, through Claude Code | Free; Pro $49 once (preorder) ## Tools that save your style and apply it to each upload ### Submagic Auto Edit captions your upload, highlights key words, adds emojis and animations, and inserts B-roll, starting from a preset template such as Kelly, Karl or Ella. For your own look, a Brand Kit stores your typography, colors and caption styles once and applies them to any video, and you can upload custom fonts. As of November 2026 the pricing page lists Brand Kit and 3 custom templates on Pro at $23 per member a month, billed yearly. Sources: submagic.co (https://www.submagic.co/features/auto-video-editor), pricing (https://www.submagic.co/pricing). ### OpusClip AI Producer turns raw talking-head footage into a video with captions, B-roll, motion design, music and sound effects, then takes changes in plain language. Brand templates hold your logo, colors, a custom font and intro or outro cards; set one as the default and OpusClip applies it to all projects. As of November 2026 the free plan and Starter ($15 a month) include one brand template; Pro ($29 a month) adds more templates and custom fonts. Sources: AI Producer (https://www.opus.pro/ai-video-editor), brand templates (https://www.opus.pro/brand-templates), pricing (https://www.opus.pro/pricing). ### Captions Set the caption font, colors, animations and words per line, then save the look under Templates > Custom > New Template on iOS or the web; custom fonts are not yet on Android. AI Edit, which cuts silences and adds captions, zooms, B-roll and music, uses preset styles plus a custom color. The help pages do not say whether a saved caption template carries into AI Edit. As of November 2026: a free version, and Max at $24.99 a month (iOS prices). Sources: AI Edit (https://captions.ai/features/edit-with-ai), AI Edit help (https://captions.ai/help/docs/project/ai-edit), caption styles (https://captions.ai/help/docs/captions/styles), pricing (https://captions.ai/pricing). ### Descript An editor, though its Underlord assistant can turn a raw recording into a tight cut. Save any scene as a layout in your own layout pack (paid plans) and reuse it. Brand Studio, on Business and Enterprise, keeps a team's fonts, colors, layout packs and media and sets the default pack. Mac and Windows app, plus web. The pricing page does not label which of its two prices per plan is monthly, so no figures here. Sources: descript.com (https://www.descript.com/), saving layouts (https://help.descript.com/templates-and-presets/layouts-save), Brand Studio (https://www.descript.com/brand-studio), default layout pack (https://help.descript.com/templates-and-presets/layouts-default), install (https://help.descript.com/getting-started/install), pricing (https://www.descript.com/pricing). ## Tools that copy a Reel you point them to Have a Reel whose edit you like? These tools take it as a reference. Use one of your own: a reference carries that video's look, so someone else's Reel gives you their style, not yours. ### MakeYours Paste a link to a Reel, TikTok or Short, add your talking-head clip, and it rebuilds the reference's text design (fonts, sizes, colours, placement, animation, timing), zooms, reframes and sound effects on your footage, timed to your voice. Phone footage is enough; the reference should be under three minutes with on-screen text. Music is not listed among what it copies, and the page does not say whether a reference can be saved. As of November 2026: one free trial edit, downloads with a plan, plans from €14.99 a month. Source: getmakeyours.com (https://getmakeyours.com/). ### Shorty Upload up to 150 clips and add a reference or describe the result. The reference can guide shot structure, pacing, transitions and colour, while the visuals come from your own footage. It runs in the browser and has an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT. No saved style is described. As of November 2026 the pricing page does not clearly label monthly or annual billing for its plans, lists no free plan, and offers a one-time 2,000-credit pack for $9. Sources: shortyedit.com (https://shortyedit.com/), pricing (https://shortyedit.com/pricing). ## Tools that restyle each video by chat or template ### Stanley Studio Drop in camera-roll clips, screen recordings, voice notes and music. It removes dead air and false starts, keeps the strongest take, and adds word-timed captions in a clean, bold pop or highlight look, zooms, music, B-roll and vertical crops. You set the look in chat on each edit; the page describes no saved style or brand kit. As of November 2026 it lists a free plan with no card and a Pro tier without a price. Source: studio.getstanley.ai (https://studio.getstanley.ai/). ### MakeAIReel It cuts pauses, filler words and retakes, picks the best take, finds the hook, adds captions and sets music to the beat. Each chat message, such as asking for a more premium look, makes a new version. Its brand kit holds your colour and contact details; the page does not mention saving fonts or a caption style. As of November 2026 it lists one free watermarked reel a day, packs from 2 reels for $1.99, and Starter at $10 per 30 days for 20 reels. Source: makeaireel.com (https://makeaireel.com/). ### CapCut templates CapCut is editing software, but templates let you reuse a finished look: choose Use Template and swap your clips into the slots its creator marked as replaceable. To reuse your own look, publish a finished edit as a template with replaceable clips (Share as Template on the web, Post as Template on mobile; the desktop app cannot do this). The pricing page lists a free plan, with final paid prices after sign-in. For Auto Cut and other automatic editors, see CapCut alternatives that edit Reels automatically. Sources: using templates (https://www.capcut.com/help/use-template), replaceable clips (https://www.capcut.com/help/how-to-set-replaceable-material-clips), pricing (https://www.capcut.com/pricing). ## On your own computer: AI Editing Studio The one I make. You film on your phone and edit on your computer; the website does not upload your raw footage. You can build or recreate your own style with your fonts, colors and sounds and reuse it for every new video, and music, PNG and video import is the same in Free and Pro. Free Studio is a free ZIP download with no email gate that installs as a Claude Code skill (/studio-edit). It keeps the best take of each line, cuts dead air, punches in from 4K, adds captions, motion graphics and sound, and checks the Instagram safe zone; each round of notes re-renders in about two minutes. Free covers the talking-head format with 5 motion effects and 5 caption styles. Studio Pro is $49 once and lists 10 formats and 50+ caption styles; it is a paid preorder with no announced release date and a full refund within 14 days. It needs Mac, Windows 10/11 or Linux, a Claude plan with Claude Code and about 10 GB free disk. Claude and ChatGPT editions are being tested. For the whole chat-driven process, see a ChatGPT or Claude workflow for talking-head videos. Source: the setup guide. ## How to choose - Same type and colors every time. Submagic's Brand Kit, an OpusClip default template, Captions caption templates, Descript layouts or an AI Editing Studio style. - A Reel you already like. Give it to MakeYours or Shorty as the reference. - Pacing and sound matter too. The reference tools, or your own sounds in a Studio style. - Phone only. The Captions app or CapCut templates on mobile. - A new look each time. Stanley Studio, MakeAIReel or Captions AI Edit styles. - No raw-footage upload. AI Editing Studio edits on your computer. - Cutting matters more than looks. See AI video editors for talking-head Reels. ## Who this is not for - AI Editing Studio is not for phone-only editors. It needs a computer, a terminal for setup and a Claude plan with Claude Code. On a phone, Captions or CapCut fit better. - Creators without a style yet. Start from presets in Captions, Submagic or CapCut, then save the look you keep choosing. - People who want no subscription. Studio needs a Claude plan; most online services bill monthly, yearly or by credits, and MakeAIReel and Shorty also sell one-time packs. - Frame-exact briefs. If a brief specifies every cut, use a timeline editor. - Footage you may not upload. The online services start with an upload; check their terms. ## Questions ### Can an AI tool learn my editing style from my old Reels? Some copy the edit of one reference video. MakeYours rebuilds a reference Reel's text design, zooms, reframes and sound effects on your clip, and Shorty uses a reference to guide shot structure, pacing, transitions and colour. None of the official pages checked for this guide describe learning a style from a whole back catalogue, so using one of your own past Reels as the reference is the closest option. ### Which tools save my fonts and colors for every video? Submagic's Brand Kit stores typography, colors and caption styles (Pro plan and above). OpusClip brand templates hold your colors, fonts and logo, and a default template applies to all projects. Captions saves custom caption templates. Descript saves layout packs, and Brand Studio holds fonts and colors for Business and Enterprise teams. In AI Editing Studio you build or recreate a style with your fonts, colors and sounds and reuse it for every new video. ### Can I do all of this on my phone? Partly. Captions has a mobile app, with AI Edit on iOS and the web, and CapCut templates work on mobile. MakeYours says footage filmed on a phone is enough and needs no software install. AI Editing Studio needs a Mac, Windows or Linux computer: you film on the phone and edit on the computer. ### Does AI Editing Studio work in ChatGPT? Not today. It is a Claude Code skill that needs a Claude plan with Claude Code. Claude and ChatGPT editions are being tested, and the exact supported apps will be disclosed before release. ### Is my footage uploaded? With the online tools, yes: Submagic, OpusClip, Captions, MakeYours, Shorty, Stanley Studio and MakeAIReel start with an upload, so check their terms. AI Editing Studio edits on your own computer, and its website does not upload your raw footage. ### What does AI Editing Studio cost? Free Studio is a free download with no email gate. Studio Pro is $49 once and is currently a paid preorder with no announced release date, a release update by email within two weeks and a full refund within 14 days. There is no Studio subscription; your Claude plan is separate. ## About the author Artem Grigorets writes about making content with AI, content automation and building a personal brand with AI, and makes AI Editing Studio for creators who film talking-head Reels. Instagram: @rtgrigorets (https://www.instagram.com/rtgrigorets/) · Newsletter: grigorets.com · Support: value@grigorets.com AI Editing Studio is a product by Elvo LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic. Studio is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or OpenAI. Submagic, OpusClip, Captions, Descript, CapCut and the other names belong to their owners; each is linked to its own page above. Get Free StudioSee AI Editing Studio