Formats
Instagram carousels, scheduled slide by slide
Put up to 10 photos and videos in order, check them against Instagram’s rules, and schedule the carousel with the rest of your week.
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The specs
What the network’s publishing API accepts. Hivenza checks each one before a post is scheduled.
- Slides
- 2 to 10 photos or videos, mixed as you like.
- Photos
- JPEG, up to 8 MB, from 4:5 (portrait) to 1.91:1 (landscape). Other formats get a JPEG copy.
- Videos
- Up to 60 seconds each.
- Shape
- Keep every slide the same shape; 4:5 portrait takes the most room in the feed.
- Caption
- Up to 2,200 characters, 30 hashtags and 20 mentions.
Schedule it in three steps
- 1
Add the slides
Upload them or pick them from the media library, and drag them into order.
- 2
Crop and check
Crop each photo to one shape; Hivenza checks counts and sizes for Instagram.
- 3
Schedule
Pick a time and schedule the carousel with the rest of the week.
What works
What works
- Make the first slide a reason to swipe
- One idea per slide, big enough to read on a phone
- End with what to do next: save, share, visit
- Turn a multi-page Canva design into the slides
What to avoid
- Slides of different shapes
- More than 10 slides
- Videos longer than 60 seconds inside a carousel
Hivenza warns you before scheduling when a file breaks the network’s rules.
Questions
Can I mix photos and videos?
Yes. A carousel can mix both, up to 10 slides.
What size should carousel photos be?
Portrait 4:5 (for example 1080 × 1350) shows the most in the feed; keep every slide the same.
Can I resize photos for free?
Yes: the free image resizer crops a photo to Instagram’s shapes in your browser.
Plan your next carousel today
