https://monty.fast/blog/ Guides on AI video editing, auto-posting reels and turning one take into content everywhere. en https://monty.fast/blog/remove-background-noise-from-video/ https://monty.fast/blog/remove-background-noise-from-video/ Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Noise reduction, voice isolation, de-reverb and declip each break a voice differently. Real limits of 5 tools, a safe order, and YouTube's -14 LUFS. https://monty.fast/blog/tiktok-algorithm/ https://monty.fast/blog/tiktok-algorithm/ Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The signals TikTok itself lists, a For You feed eligibility checklist, the 1-minute Creator Rewards rule and the 2025-2026 changes that matter. https://monty.fast/blog/keep-videos-on-brand/ https://monty.fast/blog/keep-videos-on-brand/ Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The 9 decisions that make short videos recognisable, what 2,015 tested ads say about logos vs style and sound, and how to hold it when many people edit. https://monty.fast/blog/what-is-an-srt-file/ https://monty.fast/blog/what-is-an-srt-file/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT SRT cue anatomy, how to build a file from plain text, SRT vs VTT, Netflix's 42-character and 20 characters-per-second limits, and 9 errors to check. https://monty.fast/blog/upload-reels-shorts-without-losing-quality/ https://monty.fast/blog/upload-reels-shorts-without-losing-quality/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Why platforms blur your videos, the official YouTube, Instagram and TikTok specs, iPhone and Android settings, CapCut export presets and an upload checklist. https://monty.fast/blog/video-editing-cost-per-minute/ https://monty.fast/blog/video-editing-cost-per-minute/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Per-finished-minute and hourly video editing rates from Upwork, BLS and 2026 industry guides, how many editing hours hide in one minute, and a worked monthly budget for a YouTube creator. https://monty.fast/blog/instagram-reels-algorithm/ https://monty.fast/blog/instagram-reels-algorithm/ Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Mosseri named 3 Reels ranking signals: watch time, likes and sends per reach. What each rewards, the April 2026 originality rule, and 4 myths to drop. https://monty.fast/blog/submagic-alternatives/ https://monty.fast/blog/submagic-alternatives/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Eight Submagic alternatives compared on captions, auto cut, b-roll, free tier and price, with figures from each tool's own pricing page in October 2026. https://monty.fast/blog/how-to-edit-talking-head-videos/ https://monty.fast/blog/how-to-edit-talking-head-videos/ Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Cut pauses over 0.5 seconds, change the frame about every 4 seconds, keep music 20 dB under your voice. The full edit order for talking-head shorts. https://monty.fast/blog/kapwing-alternative/ https://monty.fast/blog/kapwing-alternative/ Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Kapwing Pro starts at $16 a month. Who outgrows this browser editor, how it compares with Descript, OpusClip and Monty, and which tool fits which job. https://monty.fast/blog/how-to-read-a-teleprompter/ https://monty.fast/blog/how-to-read-a-teleprompter/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Scanning eyes, a flat voice, a speed that fights you, a lost place. The cause and fix for each tell, with a words-per-minute table and phone setups. https://monty.fast/blog/faceless-channel-niches/ https://monty.fast/blog/faceless-channel-niches/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Finance pays $10-15 per thousand views and sleep music pays $0.50-2.50 with worse competition. Plus what YouTube's inauthentic content policy actually prohibits. https://monty.fast/blog/captions-for-low-resource-languages/ https://monty.fast/blog/captions-for-low-resource-languages/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Whisper covers 99 languages. On clean English it errs on 2.7% of words; on low-resource languages that figure passes 25%. What that means for a caption workflow. https://monty.fast/blog/vertical-video-safe-zones/ https://monty.fast/blog/vertical-video-safe-zones/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT TikTok eats 320 pixels at the bottom, Reels 310, Shorts puts a subscribe button in the way. One 900x1400 box in the centre survives all of them. https://monty.fast/blog/social-video-specs-2026/ https://monty.fast/blog/social-video-specs-2026/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every vertical platform wants 9:16 at 1080x1920. The differences are length caps, thumbnail crops and how much of the frame the interface covers. https://monty.fast/blog/reel-cover-and-thumbnail/ https://monty.fast/blog/reel-cover-and-thumbnail/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Instagram crops your cover to 4:5 in the feed and 3:4 on the grid. YouTube Shorts does not accept a custom image at all. Design for both facts. https://monty.fast/blog/filming-reels-on-a-phone/ https://monty.fast/blog/filming-reels-on-a-phone/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT The phone is not the limit. Sound, light and a still frame are, and all three are close to free. What to buy first and what to skip. https://monty.fast/blog/opusclip-alternatives-own-footage/ https://monty.fast/blog/opusclip-alternatives-own-footage/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT OpusClip now edits raw talking-head takes too. How Captions, Submagic, Descript, CapCut, Vizard, Klap and Monty handle a 60-second phone take, with prices. https://monty.fast/blog/post-video-tiktok-reels-shorts-telegram/ https://monty.fast/blog/post-video-tiktok-reels-shorts-telegram/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Which tools publish one short video to TikTok, Reels, YouTube Shorts and Telegram in one go, which ones edit it first, and what each costs in September 2026. https://monty.fast/blog/short-video-metrics/ https://monty.fast/blog/short-video-metrics/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Views measure the algorithm's decision, not your work. The four metrics that actually drive results, the order to fix them in, and how to compare periods honestly. https://monty.fast/blog/where-to-get-content-ideas/ https://monty.fast/blog/where-to-get-content-ideas/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Ideas do not run out; the habit of noticing them does. Five sources that fill a month of posting in one evening, and how to stop planning and start shooting. https://monty.fast/blog/make-shorts-in-capcut/ https://monty.fast/blog/make-shorts-in-capcut/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A 9:16 project, auto captions, a caption fix pass, export at 1080x1920 H.264. It works well for a few clips and stops working at daily volume, for measurable reasons. https://monty.fast/blog/repurpose-one-video/ https://monty.fast/blog/repurpose-one-video/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Reposting the same file everywhere reads as a reupload. What actually changes per platform, in what order to build the versions, and what else a single take contains. https://monty.fast/blog/podcast-to-clips/ https://monty.fast/blog/podcast-to-clips/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT One hour-long episode yields ten to twenty clips. Pick them from your retention graph rather than by ear, and rebuild the frame instead of cropping it. https://monty.fast/blog/auto-post-to-threads/ https://monty.fast/blog/auto-post-to-threads/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Threads reached 400 million monthly users without ever shipping a scheduler. The API allows 250 posts a day per user, and frequency still buys multiples of reach. https://monty.fast/blog/auto-post-to-linkedin/ https://monty.fast/blog/auto-post-to-linkedin/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT Vertical gets a distribution boost while videos over three minutes out-reach thirty-second cuts. Automating the posting is the hard part, and the API is why. https://monty.fast/blog/ai-shorts-generator/ https://monty.fast/blog/ai-shorts-generator/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Shorts generators come in three kinds: text-to-video, clipping long recordings, and building a reel from one take. Strengths of each and how to pick for your case. https://monty.fast/blog/monty-vs-descript/ https://monty.fast/blog/monty-vs-descript/ Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT An honest Monty vs Descript comparison: when you want a powerful transcript-based editor, and when you want an agent that builds the reel and posts it for you. https://monty.fast/blog/social-media-automation/ https://monty.fast/blog/social-media-automation/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Buffer, Later and other schedulers automate publishing, but the queue only works if you keep filling it. Here is the full cycle and where automation actually removes work. https://monty.fast/blog/short-video-editing-cost/ https://monty.fast/blog/short-video-editing-cost/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Freelance Reels and Shorts edits cost $100-500 a clip or $15-40 an hour. At 3 clips a week that is $1,200-3,000 a month. Full price table inside.