Media Guidelines
Facebook Pages
Image and video media upload types, size limits, and other requirements for Facebook
Image
- Max image size: 10 MB
- Supported formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, Animated GIF, and TIFF.
- Maximum height: 2048 px.
- Maximum width: 2048 px.
- Recommended upload size of 1,200 x 630 px.
- Appears in feed at a max width of 470 px and will scale to a max of 1:1.
- Appears on page at a max width of 504 px and will scale to a max of 1:1.
Video
- Max video size: 2 GB. Please contact us about Enterprise plans for larger files.
- Supported formats: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Duration max: 4 hours.
- Recommended video dimensions is 1280 x 720 px for landscape and portrait.
- Landscape aspect ratio is 16:9.
- Portrait aspect ratio is 9:16.
- Video max frames 30fps.
Video Thumbnails
- Max image size: 10 MB
- Supported formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
- Dimensions: There are no image dimension requirements, but it should share the same aspect ratio as your video.
Reels
- Max video size: 1 GB.
- Supported formats: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Duration: 3 seconds minimum and 90 seconds maximum.
- Aspect ratio: 9:16.
- Frame rate: 24 to 60 frames per second.
- Video settings:
- Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
- Closed GOP (2-5 seconds)
- Compression: H.264, H.265 (VP9, AV1 are also supported)
- Fixed frame rate
- Progressive scan
- Audio settings:
- Audio bitrate: 128kbs+
- Channels: Stereo
- Codec: AAC Low Complexity
- Sample rate: 48kHz
Reels Cover URL
- Format: JPEG
- Max image size: 8MB
- Color Space: sRGB. Images that use other color spaces will be converted to sRGB.
- Aspect ratio: We recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space. If the aspect ratio of the original image is not 9:16, we crop the image and use the middle most 9:16 rectangle as the cover photo for the reel. If you share a reel to your feed, we crop the image and use the middle most 1:1 square as the cover photo for your feed post.
- Signed URLs with redirects are not guaranteed to be compatible with cover URLs. We recommend a non-signed URL or use the /media endpoint.
Stories
Photos
- Format: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF
- Max image size: 4MB
- For .png files, we recommend not exceeding 1MB or the image may appear pixelated.
Videos
- Max video size: 1 GB.
- Format: MP4, MOV, and AVI.
- Aspect ratio: 9:16
- Resolution: 1080 x 1920 pixels (recommended). Minimum is 540 x 960 pixels.
- Frame rate: 24 to 60 frames per second.
- Duration: 3 seconds minimum and 90 seconds maximum. A reel published as a story on a Facebook Page can not exceed 60 seconds.
- Video settings:
- Chroma subsampling 4:2:0
- Closed GOP (2-5 seconds)
- Compression: H.264, H.265 (VP9, AV1 are also supported)
- Fixed frame rate
- Progressive scan
- Audio settings:
- Audio bitrate: 128kbs+
- Channels: Stereo
- Codec: AAC Low Complexity
- Sample rate: 48kHz