New Year Recap Video: A Complete Seven-Stop Map Story

The worked example below is a fictional 2025 family-and-friends recap. The cities are real; the occasions, photographs and clips are invented teaching records. It is a finished planning example with a downloadable storyboard, not a claim that these people travelled or that these source files have been supplied.

The point of view is “we made time for each other.” That sentence decides what belongs. A familiar lunch can earn a scene; an impressive view without a connection to the story may stay in the archive. Choose the audience before asking anyone for a face, voice or private memory.

Download the seven-stop year-recap CSV and replace each teaching record with an approved original and its source note.

Opening, 00:00–00:06: “Our 2025, in seven moments we chose to keep.” Each row below is a ten-second scene. Use the first two seconds for the move or place cue and eight seconds for the media: one eight-second still, two four-second stills, or a four-second clip followed by a four-second still.

Closing, 01:16–01:30: “This is a selection, not the whole year. Thank you to the people who made room for these days. We are carrying the time together into the next chapter.”

Six seconds + seven scenes of ten seconds + fourteen seconds = ninety seconds. The captions are complete lines, not headings to improvise later. Read any narration aloud and allow room for natural sound. The final title can hold after the closing line; it does not need another clip to fill the space.

Use this planner before opening an editor. Replace the sample prompts with your own approved details. If you have fewer than twelve strong moments, use quarterly chapters or combine two months. A smaller, honest story is better than filler.

A monthly selection sheet does not require twelve final scenes. For a quarterly cut, choose one moment from January–March, one from April–June, one from July–September and one from October–December. If a period was quiet, a truthful everyday memory or a caption can represent it. Leave months out when there is nothing you want to share.

A year-recap caption gives context to the selected memories; it does not promise a complete account of the year. Use these fictional alternatives when they fit your story. Replace the twelve-stop wording with your actual scene count, and replace invented travel or family details with your own.

These lines replace planned captions or narration; they are not extra scenes to add to the 90-second or 30-second budgets. Read a spoken line aloud and shorten it or lengthen its scene when needed. Quiet months can stay quiet. If places tell the story more clearly than months, follow the travel route and explain that choice in the opening.

A shorter edit needs its own permission check. Use a three-second title, four six-second scenes and a three-second closing: 3 + 24 + 3 = 30 seconds. For this example choose January, May, August and December. Each six-second scene contains a one-second place cue and a five-second approved image.

These are proposed editorial timings, not a claim about a platform’s current duration limit. For a vertical version, reframe each image and check every face and caption after export. Do not simply crop the private widescreen version or assume its recipients approved a public post.

For an Instagram year recap, use the same manual source-and-permission process, then review the actual upload preview and audience setting in your account. Check that faces and captions remain visible and that the chosen sound is permitted for that publication. This article supplies an editing plan; it does not demonstrate a completed Instagram post, guarantee platform acceptance or promise automatic account import.

Start with a small folder or tested contribution route. For each chosen moment, record the original filename, contributor, broad place, date confidence, caption and allowed audience. Y01–Y07 are placeholder record IDs; they are not downloadable photographs. Ask the contributor when dates or places are uncertain instead of inferring a trip from a social caption.

This plan does not import Instagram posts, retrieve someone else’s account or recreate missing originals. Ask for the original from its owner. A social-media download can lose detail, and permission to view a post does not by itself settle permission to reuse every person, recording or song in a new video.

For the invitation and source sheet, use the group photo request templates. Choose fewer moments before extending the running time. Keep unselected originals in their archive; removing a scene from the recap is not a reason to delete the source.

Use original sound you are entitled to reuse, or music whose applicable license covers your planned edit, audience, platform and distribution. Owning a recording or paying for a streaming subscription is not the same as having the needed usage rights. Record the track, source, license terms and any required credit with the project. A silent captioned version is also a complete choice.

Map connections show the chosen sequence, not a GPS trace. Use broad locations or omit pins for homes and sensitive places. The seven-stop example makes no claim about roads, distances or travel times.

Review the exact private and social exports separately. Check captions, names, audible speech, crop, the actual audience setting and the recipient’s ability to open the delivered file. Keep a master, the editable plan, permissions and an independent copy. If you use AlbumMap’s Free export, obtain the required permission for possible public Examples use; credits, an active pass or Premium do not require that permission.