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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Instagram finally lets users record longer videos, shoot in 4K, and skip watermarks – but you’ll need this new app

Three screenshots from the Instagram Edits app show the ideas, camera, and timeline screens.

Instagram has finally answered some of the biggest complaints about recording video for the platform – but creators will need a new app to access the new features. Edits is a video editing app created by Instagram that brings several features that aren’t available when editing video directly inside Instagram, including recording videos that are up to ten minutes long, the option to shoot in 4K, and the ability to download videos without a watermark.

Like CapCut is to TikTok, Edits is Instagram’s new stand-alone video editing app. Edits, which Instagram head Adam Mosseri teased earlier this year, is a separate app designed to offer more video editing tools than what already exists inside of Instagram. While Meta says that videos created in edits can be shared on any platform, creators will need an Instagram account to log in and start using the app.

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