Method 2. Click the "Photos" option in the menu on the left. You can find "Photos" in the Apps section of the menu. Make sure you're using the desktop version of the website. It is not possible to upload videos from the Facebook mobile website. If you're on a mobile device and want to upload a video to Facebook, you'll need to use the mobile app.
Click the "Add Video" button. This will open the video uploader. Browse for the video file by clicking "Choose File. Facebook accepts virtually all common video formats, including mp4, mov, mkv, avi, and wmv. Add a title, description, and location. You can add this information using the fields below the file. These fields are optional, but can help other users find and understand your video. Select your audience. Click the drop-down menu next to the "Post" button to select who can view the video.
If you only want the video to be viewable by you, select "Only Me. Click "Post" and wait for your video to upload. After uploading, your video will be viewable by the audience you selected. All videos that you upload to Facebook are posted to the News Feed. There is no way to upload a video without "posting" it, even if the audience is just set to yourself. Long videos will take a while to upload and even longer to process.
Make sure you have a strong connection before uploading large video files. Find your video in the Photos section of Facebook. You can find all of your uploaded videos by opening the "Photos" app from the menu on the left. Click the "Albums" tab and then select the "Videos" album to see all of your uploaded videos. Method 3. Make sure your video fits the size requirements.
Facebook allows videos up to 4 GB in size and up to minutes in length. Make sure your video meets these requirements if you aren't able to upload it. Make sure the video is the proper format. If your video is not in one of the accepted formats, you won't be able to upload it.
Converting the video to an allowed format will allow you to upload it. See Convert Video to MP4 for details. But how long should they be?
It depends on a few factors. Organic videos are videos posted to your Facebook page without any advertising spend. But should all your organic videos be 3 minutes long? In some cases, a longer video may be the right route for you to take. However, for non-publishers, we still recommend approaching each new video you create with your message in mind, rather than duration. And Facebook recommends this too.
Facebook recommends that small businesses try keeping videos to around 15 seconds as much as possible. As a small business owner, cut to the chase and get your main point across as early as possible. Your video should be just as long as it needs to be to convey your message. To help keep viewers engaged and sticking around, regardless of the length of your video, here are a few tips:. Which brings us to this next section!
Similar to organic videos, Facebook video ads can be up to minutes. But you really should keep them as short as possible. So you want to keep things as short and to the point as possible. What is the value you are offering? Get to the value as quickly as possible. To learn more, check out our guide to running targeted ads on Facebook. Once the video has been correctly uploaded, a link to your video will appear on the page.
Click on it. Select "Share" and click on the "Facebook" icon. Click on the "Post" button to share the video on your Timeline. Jane Buchanan earned a master's degree in computer science from the University of Virginia in Since then, she has worked as a journalist and copy editor for the "Daily Press" and the "Arlington Connection.
This information is used to inform suggested or related videos in News Feed. Video thumbnail : The image that appears before a video begins to play. In countries where auto-play is not supported, this image also appears as the preview for your video. Call to action: Invites viewers to visit a website or destination of your choice.
This appears at the end of your video. Enabling Captions for Viewers. In many cases, viewers may be in an environment where it makes sense to watch a video with the sound off. Captions help viewers engage with your videos in these situations.
On mobile devices, captions will display automatically when a viewer has his or her volume muted. Managing Distribution Options. In some cases, you might want to add restrictions to where your video is distributed on Facebook. In order to do this, you select different distribution options for your video including: 1 excluding a video from News; 2 prohibiting embedding on third-party sites; and 3 adding a secret video that is unpublished and non-searchable on Facebook.
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