There is no content format quite as entertaining as video.
For years, Instagram advertised itself strictly as a photo-sharing platform. In fact, it wasn’t until the (formerly) popular six-second video-sharing app Vine went viral in 2013 that Instagram finally decided to get with the times and allow 15-second videos.
Nowadays, video is one of the most compelling components of the app. Whether you’re going live on your Instagram Stories or posting an hour-long cooking tutorial on IGTV, video is a great way to post engaging, evergreen content for your followers. In this guide, we’ll cover sharing YouTube videos, uploading high-quality clips, and everything else you need to know about how to post on Instagram.
The days of 6- and 15-second video clips are long gone, but that doesn’t mean we’re all able to share full-length feature films. Instagram has a couple of restrictions and rules regarding video length that everyone should keep on their radar.
When it comes to what the length restriction is for videos on Instagram, the answer varies depending on where you’re posting it. The rules regarding length differ for Stories, posts, and IGTV.
Let’s break them down:
If you want to post a video that’s three minutes or longer on Instagram, the best way to do it is through IGTV.
While there is a separate app for IGTV, you can upload videos just fine through the Instagram app itself.
Here’s how to upload a video on IGTV through the Instagram app:
You can also add a link to your IGTV video, which we’ve covered in an earlier article.
As we mentioned previously, Instagram only allows 1-minute videos on posts. However, there is a way to get around this rule by using the app’s carousel feature, also known as the multiple photo feature.
Unfortunately, Instagram doesn’t make it easy to do this. If you want to post a long video (up to 10 minutes) on Instagram using the carousel feature, you first need to break the video up into sections. Each section can be up to 1 minute long.
Here’s how you can turn your long video into a bunch of short videos:
Now that you’ve got your video clips ready, it’s time to turn them into a long video via carousel. Here’s how:
It’s important to note that since you can only add up to 10 photos and videos to a carousel, your video will be a max of 10 minutes long.
Instagram is a mobile-only app, which means that you can’t directly upload new content (including video) to your account through the webpage on your desktop browser. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. There are plenty of third-party apps and services that allow you to upload videos to Instagram through your computer.
As we mentioned, there are plenty of third-party apps and services that allow you to upload videos to Instagram from your desktop computer.
For the purposes of this guide, we’ll be using the app Uplet.
Known for being a bulk Instagram uploader for Mac computers, this app allows you to post multiple photos and videos, repost videos, customize your posts, and add captions. It’s free to download for a seven-day trial.
Here’s how to post a video to Instagram using Uplet:
If you don’t have a Mac, you can still upload videos from your Windows PC to your Instagram. Thankfully, when it comes to posting for IGTV, you can post a video straight from your browser.
Here’s how:
Now, if you want to post a video to your Instagram feed or Stories from your desktop, you’ll have to use a separate tool. Thankfully, Facebook made posting to Instagram from a computer easier with its Creator Studio.
Within the Creator Studio, you can check your analytics, measure your engagement — and post photos and videos to your Instagram feed. However, you have to have a creator or business account to use this tool, and it doesn’t let you post to your Stories.
If you want to post a video to your Stories from your computer, you’ll need to download a third-party tool like Storrito. The free version allows you to post up to 10 Story posts a month, while a paid subscription offers anywhere from 100 to 500 posts.
Instagram has come a long way in terms of video sharing. From adding music to sharing videos from other platforms, there are tons of tips and tricks that everyone should know.
One of those cool tricks is the ability to post a YouTube video on your Instagram account. And the easiest way to do that is by downloading the video on your phone and then posting it on Instagram through the app.
But in order to do that, you need to install a third-party app that supports downloading YouTube videos, as you can’t do it directly from the YouTube app. For the purposes of this guide, we’ll use the free app Video Saver.
Here’s how to download YouTube videos to your iPhone with Video Saver and post them to Instagram:
One of the easiest ways to level-up your video content game is by adding music to your Instagram Stories videos. And lucky for you, it’s very simple to do.
Here’s how to add music to a video on Instagram Stories:
Unfortunately, adding music to your Instagram video post isn’t as easy. At the time of this writing, you can’t add music to a post within the Instagram app itself. However, you can add music by using a third-party app such as Lomotif, which is free to download in the app store.
Here’s how to add music to an Instagram video post using Lomotif:
Video content should be a part of everyone’s social media strategy. Not only is it a fun way to keep your followers engaged, but it also gives them a more personal look into your life or business. We hope you use these tips and tricks to make your videos stand out amongst the rest.
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Instagram may have started as a photo-sharing platform, but videos are more prevalent than ever on the app.
If your social media strategy is more picture-based, it could be good to break up your feed with a video or two. Whether you’re posting a clip for your followers to comment on or sharing a live broadcast to your Stories, video content is a great way to keep your followers engaged.
In this guide, you’ll learn not only how to share a video on Instagram but how to post to IGTV, add music to videos on Instagram, and more.
When Instagram first launched video sharing on the platform in 2013, videos were limited to 15 seconds. Needless to say, the first thing users wanted was longer videos.
Instagram has increasingly upped its maximum video length, giving users more opportunities for long-form videos.
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Even though there are more possibilities than ever when it comes to uploading videos on Instagram, the length requirements depend on where and how you want to share it.
Here’s how long various Instagram videos can be:
If a minute-long video isn’t enough for you, there’s good news: You can work around Instagram’s length requirements with a simple trick. By using the Carousel post feature — which lets you share up to 10 photos or videos that your followers can easily swipe through — you can share a video that’s up to 10 minutes long.
Here’s how to share a long video on your Feed:
The only downside to this Instagram hack is that your video won’t continuously play through. People will have to swipe through one clip to get to the next. But until Instagram allows videos longer than a minute, this will have to do.
Even though feed videos are still popular, many users are turning toward Instagram’s newest feature to post long-form broadcasts. First introduced in 2018, IGTV was Instagram’s attempt to offer its users a platform for long videos.
As stated above, for most people, 10 minutes is the maximum length of a video upload. However, accounts with larger audiences can post videos up to an hour long. You can either share videos to the IGTV tab within the Instagram app or upload them to the standalone IGTV app.
Here’s how to upload a video to IGTV through the Instagram app:
Even though social media platforms would love it if their users stayed loyal and never used another service, that’s hardly ever the case. Sometimes, you have a video uploaded on YouTube that you also want to post on Instagram.
Luckily, sharing YouTube videos on Instagram is very easy — and there are a couple of different ways to do it.
The most basic way to share YouTube videos on Instagram is by downloading the video from YouTube first.
To do that, you need to install an app that can download YouTube videos for you to share.
For this tutorial, we used Video Saver. It’s free to download in the App Store.
Here’s how to download YouTube videos to your iPhone with Video Saver:
If your video is longer than the one-minute requirement, you’ll either have to edit it down or break it up into no more than 10 one-minute clips for the Carousel hack mentioned above. Both of those steps can be done within your iPhone’s Camera Roll. Once it’s edited and ready to go, all you have to do is post it.
Needless to say, it would be unethical and against Instagram’s Terms of Use to post someone else’s videos without their legal consent.
You should only post videos that belong to you or that you’ve been authorized by the creator to post.
Another way to add YouTube videos to Instagram is by hopping on your desktop and using Tube2Gram, a free service that was created for that very purpose. You can also use it to post YouTube videos to Twitter.
Here’s how to use Tube2Gram:
Once the video is downloaded, you can edit it, share it to your iPhone, and post it to Instagram.
You can share a YouTube link to your Instagram Story by using the app’s swipe-up feature. However, that feature is currently only available to accounts with at least 10,000 followers.
If you don’t quite have that follower count yet, then it’s best to share YouTube videos with the two options we mentioned previously.
While there are tons of ways to get creative with your Instagram videos, and one of the most popular ways to do so is by adding music.
Adding music to a video you post to Instagram is relatively easy. However, it’s important to be aware of copyright laws. If you upload a video with copyrighted music, Instagram may either remove the post or not allow you to upload it.
The best way to avoid this scenario is by giving credit to the musician in your post or using only copyright-free music. Epidemic Sound is a great place to find copyright-free music you can add to your video without having to worry about any legal issues.
At this time, you can’t add music to a video post within the Instagram app itself. The only way to do so is by adding music outside of the app before you post it.
The simplest way to do that is through a third-party app, and for this guide, we’ll use Lomotif.
Available for free in the App Store, this video-editing app lets you choose from millions of songs to find music for your Instagram clips.
Here’s how to add music to an Instagram video post through Lomotif:
You can also select Done and post the video to the Instagram app yourself.
Lomotif automatically saves your edited videos to your Camera Roll.
Posting a video with music to your Instagram Story is a lot easier because it can be done within the Instagram app.
Here’s how to add music to your Instagram Story:
Because the sticker displayed on your Story clearly displays the artist’s name, you won’t have to worry about violating any copyright issues when posting.
While Instagram will always be known as a photo-sharing app, video posts are growing in popularity. Not only are they a great way to break up your home page and give your followers a different kind of content, but they’re also good for flexing your creative muscles.
Whether you’re a newbie or a pro, you can always benefit from adding more videos to your Instagram.
Video is not a photo, it is more difficult to work with it. In the early days of Instagram*, many third-party services provided the ability to upload videos to the social network. 2020 "cleaned up" the ranks of volunteers.
Let's look at how to add videos to Instagram* from a computer, and for beginners, we will repeat the process of uploading videos in the application from a phone.
The easiest way to upload videos to your Instagram page* is to upload directly through the app on your smartphone.
You can add a video to Instagram Feed* in the following way:
Enter the app and click the create post icon You can add a finished video from your phone's Gallery or take a video directly from the app. Time limit 60 seconds. Then you will be prompted to apply a filter or select a coverIf your video from the Gallery is longer than a minute, then before posting you will be offered two options:
If you select shorten to a minute, you can do it right in the application. The video will be published in the feed. But if the original video you want to share is longer than 20 minutes, the program will warn you that the video file is too long.
What to do? Trim it with third-party programs.
For example, using VideoShow If you choose the second option - put the video on IGTV, then you will be given a time limit of 15 minutes.
There will be only a short announcement about it in the Feed. And if you don't want to, then you won't.
For more information on other video specifications, see The Truth About Instagram Videos*.
Uploading videos in Stories is done by clicking on your main profile picture.
You can click both on the Feed view page and in the ProfileVideo length is limited to 15 seconds, but if necessary, one long video can be split into several short ones before uploading. Here you can also shoot immediately or add from the Gallery. There are many different filters, effects and more available.
Read more about this in the article How to Use Instagram Stories*.
Posting a video on Instagram* is more difficult here. Simply by opening your page in the browser, you cannot post new content to the Feed and Stories. The exception is IGTV. Otherwise, in 2021, there are only three ways to upload a video to Instagram * from a computer.
The easiest way to solve the problem is with the help of SMMplanner. You can add photos and videos to your Feed, Stories, and IGTV. Yes, the service is paid, but for minimal money you will get the highest pleasure from the process of downloading videos. Suitable for those who post content on Instagram* on a regular basis.
Read more about working with the service in the article “How to upload a video to Instagram* from a computer”.
To use it, after logging into the service, link your Instagram* and Facebook* accounts to each other, and you must also have a business account or an Author account on Instagram*.
Switching to the Author's account is not difficult.
Go to Instagram settings* on your smartphone, select "Account" and then "Switch to professional account".
Choose the post category that best suits your content. Select "Author". You can then upload the video to your Stream. But you can’t make a carousel or add a video to Stories through the service. Alas.
Another way to publish from a computer is to use an Android application emulator. By installing it on your computer, you will work with applications on the monitor, as if you were sitting on your phone.
Consider BlueStacks.
After installing the application, log in to your Google Play account In the search, enter the word "Instagram*" and install the application You can enter Instagram* by clicking on the Notifications icon... ... it in the section My gamesTo upload videos to Instagram*, you first need to add these videos to the emulator library.
Log in to Media Manager, yellow icon in My Games Click "Import from Windows" and select the videos you want You will see them in the imported files here Now go to the Instagram* emulator and upload the videos in the same way as you would on your phone: plus sign at the bottom in the center of the screen , and the Gallery will already have the necessary videos Now the moment about the performance of your computer.
If you have 4 GB. RAM and less, then each process in the emulator will take you 5 minutes or more; In other words, everything will slow down.
By opening your page through any computer browser, you can only post videos to the IGTV section.
Go to the IGTV section in your profile and click "Download"When working through a browser, you can download a video longer than on a smartphone, namely up to 1 hour.
If you want to track statistics on Instagram**, we recommend DataFan. You only need to connect your account once and select the type of report - the service will collect the data into a visual dashboard, and they will be updated automatically.
If you are an ordinary user of a social network and publish video from your computer once or twice a year, then transfer it to your phone's memory and publish it in the usual way. Or use an emulator.
If you regularly post videos to Instagram* that are stored and processed on your computer, delayed posting services and the official Facebook service* will help you.
But be aware of the limitations: the service on Facebook* is fairly recent, and Stories, carousel, and some other things are not available there.
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Many minds of our modern world believe that vlogging is the profession of the future. YouTube is full of funny and informative videos, which was the reason for this popularization of this profession. In order to attract new audiences, bloggers are spreading their videos through social networks, in particular through Instagram. Before adding a video from YouTube to Instagram, you need to understand that this cannot be achieved using standard methods. Consider effective ways to download videos from YouTube to Instagram.
The best way to share a video from YouTube is to do it with the help of special programs and websites.
Fortunately, craftsmen have created many programs and services that can save our nerve cells and save time.
So, the easiest way to add YouTube videos to Instagram is to use the savefrom.net service. You need to go to your YouTube profile and find the URL under the desired video, which we select and copy. After that, you will need to go to the service and insert a link to your video in the desired line. Download the video to the clipboard of the desired quality and size and proceed to the next step.
You need to download the InstaVideo application, it is available for download both on the Play Market, but also on the App Store. Now we go into the above program and select the desired video clip.
Everything is ready! Now you have a video that you can upload to your Instagram. But this option is not the only one, to be continued ...
Let's consider another way to download a video from YouTube using the SaveDeo program.
Perhaps someone will like it more.
SaveDeo allows you to quickly and easily download a video file and add it to your page. The advantage of this application is that in order to post a video from YouTube to Instagram, you do not need to copy links and use third-party services. You just need to download this application to your smartphone and find the video you need while working with it and add it to your profile.
In addition, the SaveDeo application allows you to download a video even if its viewing is prohibited in your region, which can then be placed on your resource. For me, this option is much easier than the first one and takes less time to work with, but it is only suitable for Android users.
iPhone owners will have to use another application. The Workflow app is perfect for iPhone users. We download the application in the App Store, after installing it, select the video you like and click on the "Share" box. The video from YouTube will be saved as a video from the camera, and we just upload it to Instagram.
You can share the desired video on Instagram not only using a smartphone, but also via a PC. To do this, download the video you like to your computer.
So, in order to quickly download a file from YouTube, we find a suitable video and insert the letters SS in the address bar before YouTube.
Then a window will appear in front of you, prompting you to select the desired format and click "download". After that, the file will be downloaded to the "Download" folder on your computer or to the folder you specified the path to when downloading.
It remains to figure out how to upload a video to Instagram from a computer?
After the video is on a computer or laptop, you will need to go to one of the offered services. The most famous and popular is the SMMplaner service. This service helps to post videos not only on Instagram, but also on many other social networks. To use it, you will need to create a personal account.
