What photo and video formats does Iconosquare accept?
Iconosquare supports publishing to multiple platforms, each with its own requirements. This article summarizes the requirements for automatically publishing media via Iconosquare on supported social networks.
Images Specifications
- Format: JPEG
- File size: 8 MB maximum.
- 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
- Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB.
- Carousels can have up to 10 total images, videos, or a mix of the two.
Reel Specifications
- 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
- Required aspect ratio is between 0.01:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space.
- Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
- Audio bitrate: 128kbps
- Duration: 15 mins maximum, 3 seconds minimum
- File size: 1GB maximum
Reels cover photo specifications
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Format: JPEG
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File size: 8MB maximum
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Color Space: sRGB. Images that use other color spaces will be converted to sRGB.
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Aspect ratio: We recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space. If the aspect ratio of the original image is not 9:16, we crop the image and use the middle most 9:16 rectangle as the cover photo for the reel. If you share a reel to your feed, we crop the image and use the middle most 1:1 square as the cover photo for your feed post.
Story Image Specifications
- Format: JPEG
- File size: 8 MB maximum.
- Aspect ratio: We recommended 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
- Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB
Story Video Specifications
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Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
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Audio codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
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Video codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
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Frame rate: 23-60 FPS.
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Picture size:
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Maximum columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
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Required aspect ratio is between 0.1:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space
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Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
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Audio bitrate: 128kbps
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Duration: 60 seconds maximum, 3 seconds minimum
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File size: 100MB maximum
Photo Specifications
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Format: jpeg, bmp, png, gif and tiff.
- Size: 4MB maximum (recommended). For png files, we recommend not exceeding 1MB or the image may appear pixelated.
Reels Specifications
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Format: mp4
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Aspect Ratio: 9 x 16
- Resolution recommended: 1080 x 1920 pixels. Minimum is 540 x 960 pixels
- Frame Rate: 24 to 60 frames per second
- Duration: 3 to 90 seconds.
A reel published as a story on a Facebook Page cannot exceed 60 seconds. - Video Settings:
- Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
- Closed GOP (2-5 seconds)
- Compression – H.264, H.265 (VP9, AV1 are also supported)
- Fixed frame rate
- Progressive scan
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Audio Settings:
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Audio bitrate – 128kbs+
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Channels – Stereo
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Codec – AAC Low Complexity
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Sample rate – 48kHz
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Stories
Stories specifications are the same as the above, except that for a video, a video story can not exceed 60 seconds.
Photo Specifications
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Images with less than 36 152 320 pixels
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Format: JPG, GIF and PNG
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GIF format supports up to 250 frames
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Between 2 and 20 images for multi-image posting
Video Specifications
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Length: 3 seconds to 30 minutes
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Size: Between 75kb and 500MB
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Format: MP4
Document
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File size: 100MB max and 300 pages.
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Supporter file types: PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, and PDF.
TikTok
Photo Specifications
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Maximum resolution: 1080 x 1920 px or 1920 x 1080 px
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Size: within 20 MB for each image
- Format: JPG, JPEG or WebP
Video Specifications
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Audio-video content must be in MP4, MOV or WEBM
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Maximum video size: 1 GB
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Video duration: 3 seconds to 10 minutes
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Minimum height and width: 360 pixels
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Minimum frame rate must be 23 FPS
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Maximum frame rate is 60 FPS
Caption limit: 2,200 characters, including a maximum of 30 mentions
Images
- Format: .BMP, .JPEG, .PNG, .TIFF, .WEBP
- Size: 20 Mo max
- Title: 100 characters max
- Caption: 800 characters max
Video
- Format: MP4, M4V
- Encoding: H.264 or H.265
- Video length: Minimum 4 seconds, maximum 5 minutes
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Aspect ratio: For full-bleed videos (or videos that take up the entire screen), we recommend using a 9:16 ratio or 1080x1920 pixel size. Other options include: 1:2, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, or 1:1.
- Title: 100 characters max
- Caption: 800 characters max
X (formerly Twitter)
You may attach up to 4 photos, 1 animated GIF or 1 video in a Post.Images
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Format: GIF, WEBP, JPG, PNG,
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Size: 5 MB max
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Caption: up to 280 characters
Animated GIF recommendations
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Resolution: <= 1280x1080 (width x height)
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Number of frames: 350 max
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Number of pixels: <= 300 million (width * height * num_frames)
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Size: 15Mb mac
Video
Recommended settings
- Video codec: H264 High Profile
- Frame rate: 30 FPS or 60 FPS
- Resolution:
- 1280 × 720 (landscape)
- 720 × 1280 (portrait)
- 720 × 720 (square)
- Subscribed users can upload 1080p videos with 1080p playback
- Aspect ratio: 16:9 (landscape/portrait) or 1:1 (square)
- Video bitrate: minimum 5,000 kbps
- Audio codec: AAC LC
- Audio bitrate: minimum 128 kbps
Advanced settings
- Frame rate: up to 60 FPS
- Dimensions: between 32 × 32 and 1280 × 1024
- Size: 512 MB max
- Duration: between 0.5 and 140 seconds
- Aspect ratio: between 1:3 and 3:1
- Pixel aspect ratio: 1:1
- Pixel format: YUV 4:2:0
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Encoding requirements:
- Must not have open GOP
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Must use progressive scan
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- Audio requirements:
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- Codec: AAC with Low Complexity profile (High-Efficiency AAC is not supported)
- Channels: mono or stereo (no 5.1 or higher)