Adding media to your social posts

Brainstorm Automation offers many options to add media to your social posts:

1. Upload new media by dragging and dropping or using the Upload option
2. Use your file manager to recycle previous content from your library
3. Animated GIF tab powered by Giphy to search thousands of cool animated GIFs
4. Open Source Images and Videos powered by Pixabay for access to high-quality stock photos and videos.
5. Design using Canva

Please make sure to review the below Image/Video upload terms:

Image(s) Upload Terms

• Please make sure your image is less than 3mb in size.
• Allowed extensions: jpg, jpeg, gif, png
• Facebook limitations:
  • Facebook supports multiple images that are up to 4 mb.
• Instagram limitations:
  • Maximum file size: 8MiB
  • Aspect ratio: Must be within a 4:5 to 1.91:1 range
  • Minimum width: 320 (will be scaled up to the minimum if necessary)
  • Maximum width: 1440 (will be scaled down to the maximum if necessary)
  • Height: Varies, depending on width and aspect ratio
  • Formats: JPEG
• Twitter limitations:
  • Twitter supports uploading up to 4 images excluding gif.

Video Upload Terms

• Please make sure your video is less than 20mb in size.
• Facebook limitations:
  • Facebook supports video uploads that are up to 20 minutes long.
  • Allowed extensions: MOV, MPEG, MP4, AVI, MPG, FLV
• Twitter limitations:
  • Twitter supports video uploads that are up to 30 seconds long.
  • Allowed extensions: MP4 and MOV
  • MP4 format: H264 format with AAC audio
  • Minimum resolution: 32 x 32
  • Maximum resolution: 1920 x 1200 (and 1200 x 1900)
  • Aspect ratios: 1:2.39 – 2.39:1 range (inclusive)
  • Maximum frame rate: 40 fps
  • Maximum bitrate: 25 Mbps
• Instagram limitations:
  • Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
  • Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
  • Video codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
  • Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
  • Picture size:
    • Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
    • Minimum aspect ratio [cols / rows]: 4 / 5
    • Maximum aspect ratio [cols / rows]: 16 / 9
  • Video bitrate: VBR, 5Mbps maximum
  • Audio bitrate: 128kbps
  • Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum
  • File size: 100MB maximum