Scheduling Instagram Reels

With Vista Social, you can schedule videos as reels directly to Instagram. 😎📲

No mobile notifications, no workarounds of any kind.

Simply schedule your reel right in your Vista Social account and it will become a reel!  This article details how to publish a carousel post and the features that we currently support. 

🎥Video Guide 

Reel Specifications

First, let's review the specifications required by Instagram for Reels:

• Format: 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 spaces.
• Video bitrate: VBR, 25Mbps maximum
• Audio bitrate: 128kbps
• Duration: 15 minutes maximum, 5 seconds minimum
• File size: 1GB maximum

How to Schedule an Instagram Reel Post

1. Make sure that Instagram is selected on the list social profiles.

2. Click Create → New post to open the scheduling window.

3. Type in your text in the content field and click the video icon to add your video. Check out this article on how to attach images and videos to your posts.

4. On the right hand side, in the Preview area, scroll down to the customization options. By default a video will be published as Reel so there is really nothing you have to do here. You also have an option to opt-out of showing this video in general feed and keep in Reels only.