How to make a showreel
Build a cinematic, branded reel from your best clips, publish it to one link, and see exactly who watched.
A reel is the thing that gets you the next job, so it shouldn't look like a folder of MP4s. HoldFast turns your best clips into one cinematic, branded page you share with a single link. Your logo, your colours, playing edge to edge. And because it's a HoldFast link, it doesn't vanish into the void: you see who opened it, how far they watched, and whether it's making the rounds inside their company. Let's build one.
1. New reel
From the Reels tab, click + New Reel, name it, and open the editor. (Names are for you. The public link is a clean /s/… slug.)
2. Add and order your clips
Every reel you build lives on the Reels page, with its status and views.
Open a project in the navigator on the left and drag clips into the editor, then drag to reorder. Click a clip to select it, add more with cmd or shift, and drag any of them to move the whole group together, in order. Order is everything in a reel. Lead with the shot that makes someone keep watching. Trim points you set on an asset are respected, so a reel can show only the money 8 seconds of a 2-minute piece.
3. Playback and branding
Publish from the card, then copy the link.
- Auto-advance: roll straight into the next clip when one ends. The hosted page is always a single-player screening room; grid and column layouts belong to embeds.
- Brand kit: logo, colours, background, font. The page wears your workspace's default kit, so set that up once and every reel carries it (see Brand a reel).
4. Publish
The finished reel: one cinematic, branded page at a /s/ link.
Click Publish to mint the public /s/… link. Drafts stay private until you do. Copy the link and send it.
Shortcut: one-clip reels. To fire off a single video without building a full reel, use the 🔗 Public Link toggle on that asset's page. It publishes the clip as a one-clip reel instantly and keeps it out of your Reels list.
5. Track it
This is the payoff. Open Insights and the reel's views resolve into companies and, where a viewer came through a personalized link, named people, each with an engagement score. "Did the reel land?" stops being a guess. Start with How to see who watched your video.
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