HDR videos on Instagram

I feel you and I thought the same that this is only available to select people until today. I tried all sorts of different formats but nothings helped. It’s actually all simple. Just record in HDR but only in HD 60fps. Apparently IG doesn’t support 4k and is not capable of processing 4K format. Upload it directly to reels or video posts. It will appear in HDR briefly and then might disappear but will appear back in about 30 mins since it takes IG longer to process HDR.

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I’ve noticed this on my feed, too. What we’re experiencing is likely part of an A/B test that Instagram is tinkering with.

Any proper tech platform routinely does these tests for new and/or experimental features before either scaling them up if successful, or learning it doesn’t work if they fail. They’ll analyze user engagement, bandwidth/data concerns, and other metrics they can quantify and take their next steps.

Adding support for HDR video is expected for Instagram, so certainly it will roll out worldwide soon. This test likely won’t measure a “should we/shouldn’t we” questions, but more so “how, where, when” questions.

Separately, it will be interesting to see if they begin branding content as HDR, with graphics, hashtags, or something. As of now, the video just lives in the feed without any special indication.

yes only in 1080 60 fps. upload directly meaning via the IG app itself. do not use any editing apps to edit the videos before uploading.

I assumed that HDR video post on IG seems to be an exclusive feature for Influencers & Brands.

maybe available for all later? Idk…

Is there a way to disable this feature? It’s kinda cool actually, but when I’m in bed scrolling instagram before sleeping and the brightness of my phone is as low as possible, it’s so annoying to burn my retinas with an HDR video 😅

Thanks for the information, I tried your way, when I post the video I can see in full hdr but when I check my reel again the hdr was gone. I am not sure what computational stuff instagram doing one video is in hdr and other is not.

Ask Instagram, it is not an Apple product.

do you record in 1080 60 fps? And how do you upload directly instagram?

As I mentioned in my initial post, it will disappear and then come back in about 40 mins depending on the size of the reel.

And what about the video in cinematic mode? They are 1080 and 30 views. There are a lot of such videos on Instagram.

I have loaded the HDR cinematic mode. It didn't work out.