What output profile did you produce to? You can change to a different profile and probably get the video to play on your smartphone.

I didn't see any specs on the Instragram site itself, but I found several links to companies wanting you to use their software to convert your videos to work on IG. All of them (like this one) say that the max settings are HD (or 1800x945), 30p, and 60 sec max, so you'd probably want to skip 4K and produce an MP4 HD 30p version directly if you want to upload it from your phone.

Use YouTube or Vimeo if you want to link to a full resolution version from your IG account.

G'day LEO STARRY SKY -

First up, I don't use Instagram except to help answer questions like yours so my experience is limited.

I've just uploaded a couple of UHD (3840x2160) videos to my Instagram account - directly from the PC, via a free app called Gramblr. The videos were produced in PDR17 using basic AVC H.264 MP4 profiles. There were no issues & it was a painless process.

I haven't tried transferring a video to my phone to upload that way, but I'd consider that to be an unnecessary step... unless I'd shot the video on the phone. Is there a reason you're doing that?

I also haven't tried linking from YouTube or Vimeo as optodata suggested, but I've read you can do that via DropBox - so it should work.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote I've just uploaded a couple of UHD (3840x2160) videos to my Instagram account - directly from the PC, via a free app called Gramblr. The videos were produced in PDR17 using basic AVC H.264 MP4 profiles. There were no issues & it was a painless process.

I haven't tried transferring a video to my phone to upload that way, but I'd consider that to be an unnecessary step... unless I'd shot the video on the phone. Is there a reason you're doing that?

That Gramblr app sounds very helpful.

The IG FAQs page explicitly states that videos can't be uploaded from a PC, which is why I tried to find the appropriate settings from PD-to-phone-to-IG:



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I think there's a bit of a mismatch between the IG FAQs and various changes they've made. i.e. the FAQs were probably written before some "improvements" were implemented.

Like I said, I'm not speaking from vast experience (or much at all)

BUT, with not much effort (two clicks) I can convince Instagram that I'm on a phone/tablet when sitting at the PC. That's not how I uploaded the video, but I tried that first.

You're right though, optodata, & it doesn't take long when you start scratching round to find quite a bit of conflicting information. Understandable that folks get confuddled.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote What output profile did you produce to? You can change to a different profile and probably get the video to play on your smartphone.

I didn't see any specs on the Instragram site itself, but I found several links to companies wanting you to use their software to convert your videos to work on IG. All of them (like this one) say that the max settings are HD (or 1800x945), 30p, and 60 sec max, so you'd probably want to skip 4K and produce an MP4 HD 30p version directly if you want to upload it from your phone.

Use YouTube or Vimeo if you want to link to a full resolution version from your IG account.

Hi ynotfish,

Thanks for sharing your knowledge I was thinking a 4K video will be a very clear awesome video, that's why I created them. Ok, now I know it's better to produce a Mp4 video. Yup, next time I will use online feature (Youtube) to produce my video

Quote G'day LEO STARRY SKY -

First up, I don't use Instagram except to help answer questions like yours so my experience is limited.

I've just uploaded a couple of UHD (3840x2160) videos to my Instagram account - directly from the PC, via a free app called Gramblr. The videos were produced in PDR17 using basic AVC H.264 MP4 profiles. There were no issues & it was a painless process.

I haven't tried transferring a video to my phone to upload that way, but I'd consider that to be an unnecessary step... unless I'd shot the video on the phone. Is there a reason you're doing that?

I also haven't tried linking from YouTube or Vimeo as optodata suggested, but I've read you can do that via DropBox - so it should work.

Cheers - Tony

Hi ynotfish,

Good Day to u too

The free app Gramblr which u mentioned, I had tried using it quite long time ago and at that time it didn't work as expected (unable to use at all)

I had noted that choosing AVC H.264 is better than AVC H.265, this lets me wondering why AVC H.265 doesn't work painlessly like AVC H.264, hm~is it don't choose the 1st best one, choose the 2nd best one instead?

The reason for me to upload my video from smartphone to Instagram because it's more easy way than using PC as PC can't upload video (can't find the + sign to upload video), smartphone a few clicks then it's done swiftly.

As for DropBox, right now I don't see the need to use it. Thanks for the info

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That Gramblr app sounds very helpful.

The IG FAQs page explicitly states that videos can't be uploaded from a PC, which is why I tried to find the appropriate settings from PD-to-phone-to-IG:

Hi optodata,

The free app Gramblr which u mentioned, I had tried using it quite long time ago and at that time it didn't work as expected (unable to use at all) so I have no wish to touch it anymore.


Have a great day

Quote I think there's a bit of a mismatch between the IG FAQs and various changes they've made. i.e. the FAQs were probably written before some "improvements" were implemented.

Like I said, I'm not speaking from vast experience (or much at all)

BUT, with not much effort (two clicks) I can convince Instagram that I'm on a phone/tablet when sitting at the PC. That's not how I uploaded the video, but I tried that first.

You're right though, optodata, & it doesn't take long when you start scratching round to find quite a bit of conflicting information. Understandable that folks get confuddled.

Cheers - Tony

Hi ynotfish,

From my experience, if you want to upload videos to Instagram, it's better for you to use smartphone instead of PC.


Have a pleasant day