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Instagram Keeps Ruining Your Video Quality. Stop Letting It.

Instagram aggressively re-compresses video uploads. Pre-optimize to the exact specs Instagram expects to preserve quality.

Why does Instagram ruin my video quality?

You spend hours editing a video. You upload it to Instagram. It looks like it was filmed on a potato from 2008. Instagram re-encodes everything, and if your input doesn't match their expected format, the quality loss is brutal. 4K footage gets downscaled. Wrong aspect ratios get cropped unpredictably. Slow uploads get extra-compressed.

What are the requirements?

Reels aspect ratio9:16 vertical
Reels resolution1080 × 1920
Reels max duration3 minutes
Feed aspect ratio4:5 portrait
Feed resolution1080 × 1350
CodecH.264 + AAC
Frame rate30 fps
Max file size4 GB

How do I fix this?

Drop your video into Squash and select Instagram Reels or Instagram Feed. Squash pre-optimizes to the exact specs Instagram expects — right aspect ratio, right resolution, right codec — so their re-compression has minimal impact.

Instagram optimization is free in Squash. Pro ($29) removes the 60-second limit and end card.

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