Highlight reels

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Overview

Reels stitch together important moments surfaced in your customer interview, usability tests, and sales calls. Reels are a compelling way to present your raw data in a digestible and shareable format.

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Create a highlight reel

Reels can be created as a reference within a doc. These reels can include highlights from any project within your workspace.

• To do this, make sure “Editable” is toggled “On”, type / within the editor, and select Reel. From there, you can select video or audio highlights to include in the reel.
• If a selection of highlight references have already been added to your doc as a layout, you can convert this into a reel by clicking on the layout and selecting Add to reel.

You can add individual highlights to a reel at any time within a doc.

• To do this, open your doc and navigate to the bottom bar of the reel editor.
• From there, click + to select your highlights, then Insert references. This will add all selected highlights to your reel.
• You can also select and drag highlights directly into the reel.

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Arrange highlights in your reel

If you would like your reel to play through highlight clips in a specific order, you can re-arrange these in the editor bar.

• To do this, navigate to the reel editor and click on the highlight you wish to move.
• From there, you can drag and drop the highlight to place it in a different position in the reel. This will automatically save the new order of clips in the reel.

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View a highlight reel in tags

In a project, reels can also be found under individual tags. These reels are automatically created and capture highlights grouped under a single tag.

• To view a reel for a specific tag in your project, navigate to Tags and select your tag.
• From there, you will be able to see a reel that has stitched together any video or audio highlights labeled with your tag.

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Download a reel

You can download any video or audio highlight reel to share with your team in other tools for presentations, reports, or papers. This will export in a .mp4 format.

• To do this, navigate to the bottom right corner of the video player and select Download.
• This will automatically stitch together all clips in the reel and export them into a single video or audio file.
• Once the file is ready, you will be prompted via another toast saying Your highlight is ready for export. Click Download. If the toast is dismissed, you can navigate to your workspace notifications and download the file from there.

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How long does it take to export a reel?

Export times can vary depending on the size and complexity of your reel. The main factors that affect export speed are:

• The number of highlights included in the reel
• The length of the source videos those highlights come from

In the background, Dovetail doesn’t simply download the selected clips. Instead, we first render a new video that combines all of your highlights into a single reel, and then make that video available for download. As a rough guide, a reel containing around 12 clips sourced from 4 videos that are each approximately 45 minutes long may take 12–20 minutes to export. If your reel contains more highlights or is sourced from longer recordings, export times may take longer.

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