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Guides

The rest of this documentation is arranged by screen, by route or by tool. These pages are arranged by job instead: one thing somebody wants done, from the first step to the last, whichever screens it happens to cross on the way.

Getting started​

New to Reelwire? Getting started takes about ten minutes: how a video is made, what a brand and a channel are, and then your own brand, your own channel and a first video that Reelwire posts for you on the platform you choose.

The basics​

Two short guides for everyday use:

Publishing​

Reelwire makes each video and, when it is due, hands it over or posts it itself. Publishing is how a post gets onto the platforms, in three groups, one for each way of getting it there:

Compliance​

For a workspace that posts under rules, such as a bank, a broker, an estate agent, a pharmacy or a council, Compliance goes through the five steps in order: the lines a regulated template will not render without and the feeds' disclaimers, approval before a post goes out, the sealed record that proves it afterwards, Stop everything, and who may sign in and with what.

Where every guide starts​

Every new workspace comes with a brand called Default brand and a channel called Default channel, which hands its posts over by email. That channel already listens to a post list called Default post list and a stream called Default stream, so a post you type into the list (in the Post composer), or data your own system sends to the stream (under Custom feeds), becomes a real video you can post before you connect a single social account. Get started shows how to make them yours, step by step, up to the first post handed over: in the dashboard, or by asking your AI assistant.

What those videos can be made from is in the Catalogue: every template and every ready-made feed, each on a page of its own.

Animated pictures​

A logo, a picture, a badge or a background can be an animated SVG. Animated pictures says what plays in the finished video, what is left out of an SVG and why, and how to draw one that is quick to make.