Posting Video

On the Web

Making an Original Video Post

Click the video icon to open a new video post:

You’ll see this post editor pop up:

The “Post now” button won’t show as activated until either a video has been uploaded or linked in the post form.

You can click “Upload a video” to select a video file from your computer to upload. Keep in mind:

• It’ll need to be a MOV or MP4 file.
• You can post up to 20 videos per day.
• A single video can be up to 10 minutes in length.
• The video upload size limit is 500 MB per video.
• The total video time limit per day is 60 minutes.

Click the option on the right to paste a video URL. Links from the following sources will work best:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Dailymotion

After pasting your video URL, click “Insert” to add it to the post.

It’s also possible to post the video URL into the editor without selecting the video block. This will automatically embed your video in the post.

Adding Video to a Reblog

Paste a URL or a video embed code in the resulting content area. It’s not possible to upload a video file to a reblog.

In the Apps

Uploading a Video from your Device

In a new original post, choose an existing video from the row of thumbnails at the bottom of the post form, or tap the album icon to open your device’s gallery:

Take a Video Using the Tumblr Camera

• Tap the pencil icon.
• Tap the camera icon in the lower-left to open the Tumblr camera.
• Tap on the globe if you would like to apply a filter.
• Press and hold the shutter button to take a video. Tap the blue checkmark.
• The video will be inserted in your post.
• Tap the palette icon to edit your video with filters, or convert the video to a GIF.
• Tap the blue arrow when you are ready to post.

Share a Video from Another Platform

Paste a link from Vimeo, Youtube, or a similar site to embed the video directly into any post.

Adding Video to a Reblog

Paste a URL or a video embed code in the resulting content area. It’s not possible to upload a video file to a reblog.

Troubleshooting

My video is pixelated and/or has other artifacts!

Tumblr will transcode and re-compress all uploaded videos, so some light pixelation and other artifacts may occur. If you encounter that, try exporting the video as close to our transcoder’s goal as possible, which is a 720p H.264 MP4. If your video software can’t export that, or you’re working with a finished video, get Handbrake and use the General -> HQ 720p30 preset with no modifications.

If the source video is smaller than 720p, or already pixelated, nothing can really be done to improve it without running it through some sort of upscaling software, which might introduce more artifacts.

I can’t upload any more videos!

You can only upload 20 videos a day, and only 1 video at a time.

If you have not yet uploaded 20 videos, you’ll need to wait for the last video to finish transcoding and publish.

Here are some troubleshooting steps that might help if one of the videos you have uploaded did not get published:

To find the unpublished video post (while being logged into your account on the web), navigate to the Mass Post Editor:

• In your dashboard, click the Account menu on the left side.
• Click on your blog’s name in the list that appears.
• Click on “Mass Post Editor” on the right sidebar.
• Click on the video you would like to delete, then click the delete button at the top of the menu.

Please note that at this time, you can only do this from a browser (on your computer or in a mobile browser), rather than in the app.

If these troubleshooting steps don’t help, please contact us!