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Issue №04 · Apr 2026An editorial reel for every platescotsolove.com
- 01The truffle pasta restart — one plate, three platforms, sixty seconds
- 02Why your latte deserves a 45-second editor cut, not a still photo
- 03Eater vs. Bon Appétit: a face-off on the same plate of carbonara
Cover story
Turn every meal into a stellar story.
Snap your plate, pick a vibe, drop your reel. AI-crafted food blogger videos for TikTok, 小红书, and Reels — in under a minute.
Bottega Carbone
The masthead · how it works
Three movements. One sixty-second reel.
Stellar moves like a magazine column: a tight brief, a chosen direction, a finished delivery. No timeline, no plug-ins, no second window.
- 01
Setup
Snap your plate
Upload up to six reference shots — the dish, the table, the room. The AI reads lighting, plating angle, and dish type before drafting a brief.
- 02
Direction
Pick a vibe
Editorial Bon Appétit, Eater food-tour, Douyin burst, or Xiaohongshu seeding. Four covers come back in eight seconds — fine-tune the one you love.
- 03
Delivery
Drop your reel
Click Make My Reel. Sixty seconds later you have a 30–60s long-form, a 15s teaser, voiceover, captions and 9:16 / 16:9 / 1:1 exports ready to post.
How it works
Chat. Cover. Reel.
Drop a brief, pick a cover, ship a reel. Three stages, sixty seconds end-to-end. Watch a real session unfold below.
Cover
4 × 5 credits16:9 + 9:16 + 1:1 ready, 300dpi PNG/JPG.
Reel
30–60s · 50 creditsEditorial Bon AppétitGenerating
Truffle pasta
Bottega Carbone · 45s · tiktok
Voiceover, music, captions baked in.~60s end to end
Feature · contact sheet
Six rooms, six rhythms, one app.
Pick a venue type the way you pick a magazine spread. Each cell on this contact sheet pre-loads the chat with a brief that fits the room.
Portfolio · 8 finished reels
The wall.
Reels finished in Stellar last week — every one ready to drop into TikTok, 小红书, Reels, or YouTube Shorts. Hover any frame to unmute and grab the mp4.
All AI generated · Not advertisements
Plate №01
Café
Editorial · slow pour
Plate №02
Brunch
Editorial · syrup drag
Plate №03
Date Night
Eater · candlelit cut
Plate №04
Birthday Dinner
Douyin · candle blow
Plate №05
Hotpot
Eater · steam reveal
Plate №06
Solo Food Tour
XHS · counter seat
Plate №07
Street Food
Douyin · sizzle pop
Plate №08
Tasting Menu
Editorial · single light
Face-off · same plate, two voices
Pick a side. Then pick the other.
A sidebon appetit
Direction
Editorial Bon Appétit
Magazine-grade food editorial — slow overhead pulls, single key light.
- Single key light
- Slow overhead pulls
- Magazine-grade DOF
- Bricolage 700 caption
B sideeater
Direction
Eater Critic
City food-tour narration, multi-angle bite cuts, lower-third tags.
- Multi-angle bite cuts
- Critic narration
- Lower-third tags
- Handheld natural feel
Also in this issue
Letters · readers' notes
Three creators wrote in. Here's the post-mortem.
Numbers cover the ninety days after they switched their food posts to Stellar reels. Captured from their own profile dashboards. Not paid testimonials.
Maya
Brooklyn · letter no. 01
“I went from 800 to 24k followers in three months by posting Stellar reels every Saturday brunch.”
Followers · 90-day delta
Before800 followers
After24k followers
×30 audience growth · 2,900% lift
André
Lisbon · letter no. 02
“My pastel de nata reel hit 1.2M views — Stellar's Eater preset nailed the late-night bakery vibe.”
Followers · 90-day delta
Before2.4k followers
After96k followers
×40 audience growth · 3,900% lift
Hina
Tokyo · letter no. 03
“I run a one-person ramen tour channel. Stellar gives me a Bon Appétit edit in 60 seconds.”
Followers · 90-day delta
Before1.5k followers
After58k followers
×39 audience growth · 3,767% lift
Tariff · monthly subscription
Plans sized by posting rhythm.
Subscriptions renew monthly in USD. Credits are a service-use allowance — not currency, not redeemable for cash, and don't roll over month to month.
Plan Pick a posting rhythm. Switch any time. | Bite $0/ mo 50 credits / month Best for casual foodies trying it out. | Foodie Most posted$20/ mo 500 credits / month Best for active food bloggers. | Editor $200/ mo 10,000 credits / month Best for full-time creators and agencies. |
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| №01Cover stills | |||
| №0215s teaser | |||
| №0330–60s long-form reel | |||
| №04Watermark removed | |||
| №051080p export · 9:16 / 16:9 / 1:1 | |||
| №064K export · 30s | |||
| №07Branded caption bar | |||
| №08Batch queue | |||
| №09Priority generation | |||
| №10Early access to new style presets | |||
| Start free | Make My Reel | Go Editor |
Annual plans · save 20% — see full tariff on the pricing page
Open the full pricing pageFAQ
Clear rules before you post.
Letter from the editorIssue №04 · 2026-04-30
Dear reader —
You've watched eight finished reels, weighed Bon Appétit against Eater, and read three letters from creators who already moved their food posts here. We made Stellar so the only thing between you and your next stellar story is a sixty-second prompt.
Open the studio. Drop a brief. Pick a cover. Drop your reel. We'll see your byline on the next wall.
— The Stellar editors