- Hey, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
Repurposing your video content
is a great way to grow your audience online.
The more platforms that you can post
your content on or tease your content on,
will end up in more interactions and more views
and more traffic being generated back where you want it,
probably somewhere like YouTube, Vimeo, or even your blog.
So really the concept here is that
after you've spent all the time creating your videos,
you could edit down a short version for say,
Facebook or Instagram or Twitter,
so that when you post it out, it's gonna lead people
back to the full version of the video.
Now, Instagram is a great platform
and it supports video as well,
but getting your videos onto Instagram
can be an absolute nightmare.
Typically, how you'd need to do this
is to get the file from your computer
in the right format into your phone
and then upload it from your phone to Instagram.
Now, for some people, that's easy,
for others, it's an absolute nightmare.
It's going through other platforms
like Dropbox or Google Drive in order to upload the file
and easily get it to your phone.
Or converting it to the right format
to get it into your camera roll if you're on an iPhone.
So the process isn't simple to get
a professional-looking video up on Instagram.
And Instagram themselves don't support
uploading videos from your desktop.
So in this video, we're gonna simplify the process
and we're gonna show you how you can
upload your videos to Instagram using a computer.
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I'm not sure why Instagram themselves
haven't implemented this functionality yet.
It's something I get asked about all the time.
How can I get my videos from my computer
over to my phone or onto my device
so that I can upload it and post to Instagram?
But luckily enough, there are a few services online
that will let you do it.
We've had a play around with a few of them
and our pick is Grum.
Grum is a website that lets you post your videos
or your images directly to your Instagram account.
It'll also let you organize and schedule your posts
to be posted to Instagram whenever you like.
It currently costs $9.95 per month
to link up two Instagram accounts.
So if you're gonna be posting a lot of videos
or a lot of images and you really want
the ability to schedule them, then this is a no-brainer.
And the best part about it is
this is totally separate from your phone
so it is has nothing to do with your phone
and your Instagram that's logged in on there.
This is it's own stand-alone service.
Which means you can post from anywhere
or you can get someone to post on your behalf for you.
Now, they do have a free three day access
where you don't even need to enter
your credit card details to get access
and have a play around.
So I think it's definitely worth doing.
But it's so easy to use once you actually get inside.
Just clicking on the green plus button
you'll be able to add your Instagram accounts.
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So to post something instantly
or to add one to your schedule,
just hit the big plus button.
Then all you need to do is pick your image.
You have the ability here to scale it and crop it
as you normally would in Instagram.
You can then enter your text
in the caption area down the bottom.
And if you this little comment button here,
then you can also leave the first comment
along with your post.
So you could use that for additional hashtags
or additional text if you needed to.
Then it's just a matter of hitting schedule or post now.
You can also view and edit all your scheduled posts
by clicking on the scheduled tab at the top.
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Now in order to upload a video file to Instagram using Grum,
you need to make sure that your video file
is exactly as you want it
because there is currently no trimming features,
no cropping features, so you'll need to make sure
that your video file is exactly as you want it
when you export it from your video editing software,
that it runs for the right amount of time,
that any color effects that you wanna put on
are all done in your editing before you get to Grum.
You'll also need to make sure that
your video file is an MP4 format.
Now in order to upload video file
or to add one to your schedule,
just hit the big plus button.
Then all you need to do is pick your video.
You can then pick your cover image
and enter any caption text and same as before,
if you click the little comment option,
then you can also leave the first comment
and get your first comment posted with your post as well.
Then you either hit post or
you schedule it to be posted later.
So that's how you can repurpose your video content
and easily post your videos to Instagram
using your desktop computer.
If you found this video helpful,
make sure you hit that subscribe button
and I'll put a link onscreen now to another video
all about repurposing video content
in order to get the maximum results
from the videos you're creating.
I'll see you soon.