Media Guidelines
Threads
Image and video media upload types, size limits, and other requirements for Threads
Image
- Format: JPEG and PNG image types are the officially supported formats for image posts.
- File Size: 8 MB maximum.
- Aspect Ratio Limit: 10:1
- Minimum Width: 320 (will be scaled up to the minimum if necessary)
- Maximum Width: 1440 (will be scaled down to the maximum if necessary)
- Height: Varies (depending on width and aspect ratio)
Color Space: sRGB. Images using other color spaces will have their color spaces converted to sRGB.
Video
Container: MOV or MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14), no edit lists, moov atom at the front of the file.
- Audio Codec: AAC, 48khz sample rate maximum, 1 or 2 channels (mono or stereo).
- Video Codec: HEVC or H264, progressive scan, closed GOP, 4:2:0 chroma subsampling.
- Frame Rate: 23-60 FPS
- Picture Size:
- Maximum Columns (horizontal pixels): 1920
Required aspect ratio is between 0.01:1 and 10:1 but we recommend 9:16 to avoid cropping or blank space.
- Video Bitrate: VBR, 25 Mbps maximum.
- Audio Bitrate: 128 kbps.
- Duration: 300 seconds (5 minutes) maximum, minimum longer than 0 seconds.
- File Size: 1 GB maximum.