You intend to publish a video on the popular photo social network but first you would like to apply some changes to make it more interesting from an aesthetic point of view. In this new guide today we will explain you come rate video edit Instagram using some free applications or tools offered by the same social platform.
Premise
Before discovering the best software to edit videos and publish them on Instagram, we wanted to give you 3 simple tips that you can follow or not to improve your performance.
- Deliver quality content.
- Make the most of the time available (60 minutes for IGTV for users who have a certain number of followers or 15 minutes and 10 seconds for everyone else, 15 seconds for Stories and 60 seconds for posts with videos).
- Follow the example of the most famous profiles on the platform.
How to edit videos on Instagram with built-in tools
If you do not want to install external applications, you can edit a movie quickly and easily before publishing it with you predefined features proposed by the application of the photographic social network.
To access them, simply open the app, tap the + present at the bottom center, press gallery, use the proposed list to search for the clip, press to select it and then tap forward top right.
In the next step, through the Filter menu, choose the filter you want to apply to the movie (click on the box at the bottom of the list to access others). By clicking on the Size menu, you can change the length of the video to post on Instagram by dragging the two white dots. In conclusion, you can choose the cover image to apply to the movie via cover. Once these operations are completed, complete the other proposed fields and press the corresponding button to publish the video via post.
With regard to Stories, you'll have to do this: click on thecamera icon at the top left of the feed, presses thegallery preview icon at the bottom left and touches the video on which you want to share Instagram as a story.
Through the screen that shows up, you can add a tag, filter, background song, layout, or text using the Icon 6 placed at the top. Once you have applied all the desired changes, click the Send to button and goes ahead share placed next to Your story.
How to edit videos on Instagram with VideoShow
In case you are looking for an app to edit videos from your smartphone or tablet, then we suggest VideoShow. It is a powerful free editor available for both Android and iOS that lets you add captions, emoticons, text, filters, music and much more to your clips with a few simple gestures.
In addition to this, the app supports sharing directly to Instagram. For more information on how the software works, we recommend you check out the guide attached below.
Come edit video on Instagram with InShot
Another free and highly recommended app for editing videos to post on Instagram is InShot. Among its many features, this software allows you to trim and/or delete some parts of a clip, add a favorite background song, add text or a sticker and much more.
However, like VideoShow, the free version of InShot applies a watermark at the bottom right of the output file, but if you wish, you can purchase the paid version. Once the export is complete, you can directly share the edited video on Instagram. To know how the app works completely, follow the instructions in the tutorial attached a while ago.
How to make video edits on Instagram: other solutions.
In addition to the software listed in the last lines, it is possible to use the many other alternatives that we list below.
- iMovie (iOS)
- Cute CUT (Android / iOS)
- Splice (iOS)
- KineMaster (Android / iOS)
- FilmoraGo (Android / iOS)
- Quik (Android / iOS)
- Adobe Premiere Clip (Android / iOS)
- PowerDirector (Android)
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