hey everyone this is grace from kapwing and if you've been on instagram recently
you probably know that posting a video to the platform has become kind of a complicated task
there are now four different types of videos on instagram there's the feed videos stories igtv
and reels each of them come with a different set of sizes that are possible
and making sure your content fits on the screen for that particular format can be confusing so in
this video i'm here to show you the correct sizes for each of these different formats
and then i'll also show you how to resize existing videos no matter what their original format was
so that they fit on the whole screen on instagram because nobody has time to reshoot videos for
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so to resize a video for instagram to fit the whole video we're going to be using kapwing
which is a completely online editor you can click the first link in the description below at the top
of the description to get there and this works on your computer or your phone now once you get here
the first thing you'll want to do is upload the video that you want to resize so you can either
click to upload from your files or even just paste a link to a video that's already on the
internet for example on tick tock or youtube or somewhere else now the main task we're trying to
do here is resize this video which means you'll need to know what the sizes for instagram are and
because instagram likes to keep things complicated with video these are the sizes that currently work
for videos in 2021. on your profile page they all show up as a square so the thumbnail of the
video will be a square so keep that in mind but in the feed they show up in these sizes now the best
size for a feed video is actually four by five because that will allow you to take up the most
space in the feed for example this is how these three different sizes show up in the feed this one
is four by five this one is one by one and then this one is 16 by nine and the four by
five takes up the most space on a person's phone when they're viewing it now for stories reels
and igtv these are all going to be 9 by 16 aspect ratio which is generally the size that your phone
will record in so one of the most common tasks is resizing a vertical 9x16 video as you can see
this video if i click the background it says 9x16 right now but that is not one of the sizes that
will work as a feed video you'll need to resize it to fit either the four by five one by one or
the 16 by nine aspect ratios and we can do all of that here i would i'm going to do four by five
because i think that's the best option when you take up the most space so to resize the
video make sure to click the background and this output size options will come up if you're doing
this on a phone click the background and then click the edit background button that shows up
now i'm going to choose the 4x5 option output size and i click that and as you can see it resizes it
the canvas itself to four by five and if you want to make sure the whole video is on the screen
what you can do is either use these purple dots at the corners and drag it or you can also just click
this lock ratio button which conveniently locks it to the perfect original dimensions it was and that
lock ratio button if you're on a phone just click the video and then click the edit video button and
that option will be there so now that the whole video is on the screen you can drag it to where
you want and then with the background you can change that to any color you want
so right now it's white which will probably blend in with a lot of
instagram users feeds but if you want to change it to a different color you can do
so on the side here we have custom you can type in a custom hex code or choose from this palette
we even have this eyedropper tool that allows you to drag over colors in the video and then
click one and it'll change the background to that exact color now once you are happy with
the sizing you have a bunch of other options in the top bar here for example text you can search
for images straight from google right in here and just click one and it'll input it into the
project you can also add or record audio by uploading file or pasting a link or recording
and then we also have subtitles and other elements and then once you're happy with your video you're
ready to get it to instagram click the red export video button after a few moments your video
will be done make sure to sign in to remove the watermark in the corner signing in will also allow
you to access your account your kawaii account on your phone or any other device so that you
can go into that account on that device and then download the project and upload it to instagram
before i go over that i just wanted to just show how to resize a video to fit these either stories
reels or igtv which is the 9x16 size so i'm going to click to upload a file and as you can see this
video is currently in the 16x9 format so this fits more like a youtube video or something
else where it's horizontal this will not take up a lot of space on instagram as a story reel or igtv
so what you want to do is click the 9 by 16 output size which is for those different formats
and then you can see that it crops out the some of the video if you are fine with that you just want
the whole video to take up the screen and there's like a single focus in the video like my face here
works then that's probably fine you don't need the extra space and extra part of the video there
if you do want to adjust where which part of the video it's centered on here you can click
the video and click crop and then click the 9x16 box and then move it around now one thing to take
note of is that other parts of your video might be cropped for example this is a picture that
the sides are caught so to fit the whole video on the screen in this 9x16 format you can click the
lock ratio button again and it will resize it down back to the original horizontal format but on the
9x16 canvas now you can also just drag out to get something in the middle where you do have these
you have the center focus but you have more of the video inside the canvas as opposed to before
and then of course in the borders you can change the background color again using the options on
the side here and these borders even though they might look annoying they are actually
really great spaces for adding other things like text and images and subtitles so i just went in
and added subtitles automatically using our auto subtitler in the click of a button it'll create
all these subtitles for your whole video and then i also added this emoji at the top the world is
your oyster and you can do whatever you want in here and then when you're ready to download your
video get it to instagram again just click the red export video button so once you've resized your
video and you are ready to get it to instagram the easiest way to get projects from your computer to
your phone if you didn't may do this on a phone is to just copy the link to your kapwing project and
send it to your phone or you can sign into your complaint account on your phone so i did that and
i'm here in safari now i can just click the three dots on the project i want and then click download
click download again and then click the top right corner click your project and then
click the bottom left corner and then click save video now that video will be in your camera roll
then go to instagram and if you're going to post a feed video click the plus in the top right corner
and then click your project so this is the 4x5 size video that i resized first in this video
and here's the important step make sure to click that little icon with the two arrows in the corner
and that will make sure that it resizes to the 4x5 and has the whole
picture in the frame then you can just click next and next again and then share
with your description and other things and then once it's published this is what it looks like
as you can see it's the whole video on the screen what originally was a 9x16 video is now 4x5 takes
up the most space in the feed then you can post the 9x16 resize videos so i'll go to my story now
click the bottom left icon and then choose the 9x16 size video and here it is with the subtitles
with the emoji at the top and you can see that it all fits and then just go next and click your
story thanks for watching this video i hope it was helpful if you still have questions or thoughts
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