# Templates in the Concat Video Editor

> Concat 0.2.7 has no built-in template library. You can save a project as a template, but we found no control to mark slots yet and the list did not refresh in our test.

URL: https://concatvideoeditor.com/features/templates
Updated: 2026-10-18
Source: Concat Video Editor Guide, an independent guide. Not the official Concat website.

The Concat video editor does not come with a template library. In version 0.2.7 the Templates tab opens empty, with a single button to save the current project as a template. You build an edit once, mark the clips you plan to swap later as slots and keep the rest of the edit for next time.

![Templates tab in the Concat video editor with the Save this project as a template button and an empty My templates list](/images/feat-templates.webp)

## How do you make a template in the Concat video editor?

1. Build an edit you want to repeat. A weekly intro, a podcast clip layout or a product demo format works well.
2. Decide which clips change every time, such as the main footage or a guest's photo.
3. Open the **Templates** tab and click **Save this project as a template**, or choose **File**, **Save as template…**.
4. Concat names it after your project, for example “Vertical Reel template”. Saving a second time with the same name shows “a template named … already exists” instead of overwriting it.

The panel also asks you to mark media as slots before saving. Slots are the clips Concat swaps for new media when you start a project from the template: the project's source code describes them as placeholder media that get filled with your files in order. In 0.2.7 we could not find a control in the app that marks a clip as a slot. The clip right-click menu, the media panel and the inspector had nothing for it, so a template saved today keeps all of its media as fixed assets.

![The File menu in the Concat video editor with Add selected to timeline, Import media, Save as template and Text to speech](/images/file-menu.webp)

## Does Concat have CapCut style templates?

No. If you came to Concat looking for a CapCut style gallery of ready-made trends, it is not there in 0.2.7. Nothing in the panel downloads templates from the web, which fits the app's local, offline design. What you get instead is a way to reuse your own work. For anyone who posts the same format every week, that is often more useful than a trend template that a thousand other accounts also used.

## What should you mark as a slot?

Mark anything that changes from one video to the next and leave the rest alone. A simple rule:

| Keep in the template | Mark as a slot |
|---|---|
| Intro and outro clips | The main footage |
| Title styles and lower thirds | Guest photos or screenshots |
| Filters and color effects | B-roll for this episode |
| Music bed and voice cleanup settings | The voiceover |

Titles are worth keeping even though the words change. You keep the style, position and keyframes and only retype the text.

## Why make your own template?

It saves the setup work you would otherwise repeat on every project in the Concat video editor. The Concat app is free, so a template costs you nothing to keep. Because a project's shape and frame rate are set when it is created, a template should also carry the right format for where you post. A 9:16 template at 1080p is a good base for Reels, Shorts and TikTok.

## What are the limits?

- **No built-in library.** The Templates tab is empty until you add your own.
- **No slot control yet.** We saved a template in 0.2.7, but found no way to mark slots, and the My templates list did not refresh in the same session.
- **Media is copied.** Saving copies every clip into the template folder, so long footage makes a large template.
- **One shape per template works best.** Changing the frame later is possible, but clips keep their old framing.
- **Beta software.** The Concat video editor is still in beta, so how templates work may change between releases.

## Questions people ask

### Where are my saved templates in Concat?

Concat stores each template as a folder named after the project plus "template" in its config directory, with the media copied into an assets folder and a poster frame. In our 0.2.7 test the My templates list stayed empty for the rest of the session even though the folder was saved.

### What is a slot in a Concat template?

A slot is a piece of media you mark as replaceable before you save the template. The idea is that next time you only swap the slot clips and keep everything else.

### Can I download Concat templates from other people?

We did not see a way to do that in 0.2.7. There is no shared gallery in the app and only a My templates group in the panel.

### Can a template change the aspect ratio of my video?

A template keeps the frame it was saved with. You can change a project's frame later under Modify in the Details panel, but clips will not reframe themselves, so it is cleaner to save one template per shape.