Taking a video and converting it from YouTube to Instagram doesn’t have to be a complex task.

Whether you want to share a TikTok compilation YouTube video as an IGTV video or how to post a YouTube video to an Instagram story - today we’re teaching you how. Learn how to download, resize, customize, and convert video from YouTube to Instagram with this quick 3-minute read.

Find a Video to Import from YouTube

Find a video you want to convert from youtube to Instagram and copy the URL.

Paste the YouTube Video URL to Import the Video to VEED

Go to VEED’s online video editor and click to upload a video. Select to import from YouTube and paste the URL to begin loading the video into the editor.

Use Canvas Resize to Convert from YouTube to Instagram

In the upper right hand corner, select Canvas Size. This will toggle a simple dropdown menu where you can adjust the size of your video from YouTube to Instagram. You can select either the 1:1 ratio square format or 4:5 ratio portrait format for a regular feed post. But you can also select the 9:16 ratio for Instagram stories or IGTV. Although you can select a 16:9 ratio landscape (wide) format, we advise against it since it takes up such little space on the screen.

Once you’ve resized your video from YouTube to Instagram, you can play with the pink adjustment handles. Drag the handles to decide if you want your video to occupy the entire Instagram size you’ve selected or maybe just a strip of it to allow for subtitles, title text, and progress bar if you’re trying to create videos like Gary Vee.

Customize Your Video for Instagram

When repurposing content in general, the goal is to adjust it to fit a platform’s native content. This is why we taught you how to crop video for Instagram in the previous tip so it suits the platform’s best-performing native formats.

But there are more areas where you can optimize a piece of content when going from YouTube to Instagram from subtitles to text to progress bar animations. For example, although YouTube has automatic closed-captioning Instagram does not. And with 5% of the world’s population being hard of hearing and far more watching with sound off, this makes adding subtitles to video a must. In fact, if you need even more convincing, here’s another interesting stat.

80% of consumers are more likely to watch an entire video when captions are available. They say captions help make a video more interesting. 37% will even turn the sound on if possible.

Download and Share to Instagram

Once you’re happy with the video you’ve successfully converted from YouTube to Instagram, simply download it from the upper right hand corner. You’ll then be prompted with a final screen to grab your file.

You can finally post your video to either your Instagram feed, stories, or IGTV!

And if you need to edit videos for more platforms than just going from YouTube to Instagram, you can do this too. VEED’s canvas resize feature adjusts to all major social platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. You also have access to a powerful library of tools packaged inside an easy-to-navigate interface. Experiment with adding progress bars to video, filters, adding music and more inside of VEED’s online video editor.

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