Chapter 4
Recording and Posting Great Videos
IN THIS CHAPTER
Recording video on your smartphone or tablet
Getting your videos ready to post
Posting your video
Posting multiple videos from an iPhone or iPad
Uploading longer videos from your computer desktop
Your iPhone, iPad, and Android devices all have video cameras, and Instagram puts them to great use. In this chapter, we explain how to record, edit, and share video in the Instagram app by using a smartphone or a tablet. Sorry, Windows users: Instagram doesn’t support using your webcam to take video.
Recording Videos
Instagram gives you the flexibility to record or upload videos in posts on mobile devices that are as short as 1 second or as long as 60 seconds. If you find that 60 seconds is too limiting, use the video as a teaser (think of it as your own movie preview) to get people to click through to your website or to another video website such as YouTube.
When you’re ready to start recording a video on your iPhone, iPad, ...
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