Everything below comes from making videos in this editor. Start at the top if you are new, or jump to the section you need — then open the studio and try it.
Getting your first reel out in five minutes
Open the studio, choose a surah, then set the first and last verse of the passage you want. Short passages work best on social platforms: two to four verses usually lands between 25 and 60 seconds, which is the sweet spot for Reels and Shorts.
Pick a reciter next. Slower, measured recitations (murattal) leave room for subtitles to be read; faster styles suit shorter clips. The preview panel plays the exact audio that will be used in the export, so listen through once before rendering.
Finally choose a background and press Download. The render happens in your browser, faster than real time, and the file saves straight to your device.
Syncing verse timing with your own recitation
If you upload your own audio, the studio cannot know where each verse begins, so you mark the boundaries yourself. Play the file and tap the mark button on the first word of each new verse. Marks can be nudged afterwards, so aim for roughly right on the first pass.
Auto-split is a good starting point for evenly paced recitations: it divides the file by verse length and you correct the few boundaries that drift. For recitations with long pauses or repeated verses, marking manually is faster than fixing an automatic guess.
A subtitle that changes a fraction of a second early reads as sloppy; slightly late reads as natural. When in doubt, set the boundary just after the reciter starts the new verse.
Choosing subtitle styles that stay readable on a phone
Arabic script needs more vertical space than Latin text. Give the Arabic line a large size and generous line height, and keep the translation noticeably smaller so the eye lands on the verse first.
Contrast matters more than colour. A warm off-white on a dark background survives platform compression; thin light text over a bright video does not. Add an outline or shadow whenever the background has motion or highlights.
Keep the safe area in mind: platforms overlay usernames, captions and buttons across the bottom third of a vertical video. Shift your subtitle block upward so nothing important sits behind the interface.
Export settings: resolution, bitrate and format
1080x1920 at around 12-16 Mbps is the practical default. Every major platform re-encodes uploads, so exporting far above their ingest ceiling mostly costs render time and disk space.
Go to 1440p or 4K when you plan to crop, zoom or reuse the footage in a longer edit — extra pixels survive a second encode better. Raise the bitrate together with the resolution; 4K at a low bitrate looks worse than clean 1080p.
MP4 (H.264) is the safest container and uploads everywhere. WebM (VP9) produces smaller files at similar quality and is useful for embedding on the web, but some mobile apps refuse it.
Publishing: captions, hashtags and consistency
Write the surah name and verse numbers in the caption. It helps viewers search for the passage and signals to the platform what the video is about.
Post on a schedule your recitation source can sustain. A weekly series from one surah builds a returning audience faster than scattered one-off clips.
Always credit the reciter in the video or the caption. It is both a courtesy and a requirement of most recitation archives.
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