Best export settings for instagram on Reddit

13 reviews from r/premiere, r/editors, r/gopro and 2 more subreddits

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#1

Instagram

4.4
(5)
"HD uploads are ideal for Instagram, especially for mobile viewing."
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"Crop your photo in 9:16 aspect ratio."
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"H264 max bit rate and low keyframes seem to work well with Instagram compression, preserving video quality."
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"There is a higher quality setting inside Instagram’s account profile settings."
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"Using HD for Instagram looks perfect on phones."
#2

YouTube

4.5
(2)
"Exporting with YouTube 1080 preset but change size to 1080x1080 square"
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"Choose the YouTube preset and manually change the bitrate to be however high you want."
#3

AfterCodecs

5.0
(1)
"You could use H264 from AfterCodecs or even the special YouTube profile from there"
#4

Apple

5.0
(1)
"The video quality is excellent and the apps used make it easy to upload to Instagram."
#5

Video Codec

5.0
(1)
"The settings for H.264 codec and CBR bitrate are well explained, making it easy to optimize video quality for Instagram."
#6

ProRes

4.0
(1)
"Try prores/mov instead of h264/mp4."
#7

Premiere

3.0
(1)
"There's something about the Premiere H.264 codec that Instagram just doesn't like."
#8

GoPro

3.0
(1)
"The video from gopro has some loss quality as well."

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