How to post a video to Instagram from a computer and from a smartphone: 5 ways

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 social media. 2020 cleaned up the ranks of volunteers.

Let’s consider the options for downloading videos from a computer, and also repeat the process of downloading videos in the application for beginners.

From smartphone

The simplest of the used methods of uploading a video to an Instagram page is uploading directly through the application on a smartphone.

You can upload a video to the Feed in the following way:

Go to the application and click the post creation icon

*You can add a finished video from the Phone Gallery or take a video directly from the application. Time limit 60 seconds. Then you will be prompted to apply a filter or select a cover*

If your video from the Gallery is longer than a minute, you will be presented with two options:

shorten it to the desired size by cutting off part,
upload it to IGTV.

If you choose to shorten to a minute, you can do it right in the app. The video will be published in the Feed. But if the original video, part of which you want to publish, is longer than 20 minutes, the program will warn you that the video file is too long.

What to do? Truncate it with third-party programs.

For example, using VideoShow — *For example, using* *VideoShow*

If you choose the second option – upload the video to IGTV, then you will be given a time limit of 15 minutes. There will be only a short announcement in the feed. And if you don’t want to, then it won’t.

For more information on other video specifications, see The Whole Truth About Instagram Videos.

Uploading videos to Stories is done by clicking on your main profile picture.

You can click both on the feed view page and in the Profile

Video length is limited to 15 seconds, but if necessary, one long video can be split into several short ones. 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”.

From computer

It’s more complicated here. Having opened an Instagram page in a browser, it is impossible to upload new content to the Feed and Stories. The exception is IGTV. Otherwise, in 2021, there are only three ways to upload videos to Instagram from a computer.

Through the delayed posting service

The easiest way to solve the problem is with SMMplanner. You can upload photos and videos to the Feed, Stories and IGTV. Yes, the service is paid, but for minimal money you will get the highest pleasure from the video download process. Suitable for those who upload content to 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.”

Via Facebook Creator Studio

*Official service from Facebook. To link your Instagram account, click on its icon and follow the instructions*

To use it, after logging in to the service, link your Instagram and Facebook accounts to each other, and you must also have a business account or an Instagram account of the Author.

Switching to the Author account is not difficult.

Go to Instagram Settings on your smartphone, select “Account”, and then “Switch to a professional account”. Choose the category of publications that best suits your content. Select “Author”.

After that, you can upload the video to your Feed. But you cannot make a carousel or upload a video in Stories through the service. Alas.

Through the emulator

Another way to download from a computer is to use an Android application emulator. Having installed it on your computer, you will work with applications on the monitor as if you were sitting in a phone.

Consider BlueStacks.

*After installing the application, log into your Google Play account*

*In the search enter the word “Instagram” and install the application*

You can log into Instagram by clicking on the Notifications icon ... — *You can log into Instagram by clicking on the Notifications icon …*

... or the next time you enter the program, find it in the My games section — *… or the next time you enter the program, find it in the My games section*

To upload a video to Instagram, you first need to add these videos to the emulator’s library.

Log in to Media Manager - yellow icon in My Games — *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 emulator on Instagram and download the video in the same way as you would on the phone: a plus sign at the bottom in the center of the screen, and the Gallery will already have the necessary videos

Now a moment about the performance of your computer. If you have 4 GB. RAM or less, then each process in the emulator will take you from 5 minutes or more; Simply put – everything will slow down.

Via browser

By opening your page through any computer browser, you can only upload videos to the IGTV section.

Go to your profile in the IGTV section and click “Download”

When working through a browser, you can download videos longer than on a smartphone, namely, up to 1 hour.

Conclusion

If you are an ordinary user of the social network, and you publish a 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 publish videos stored and processed on a computer, delayed posting services and the official Facebook service will help you. But remember about the limitations: the service on Facebook is pretty fresh, and Stories, carousel and some other things are not available there.

Author: Anna Zorina

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