{"id":2867,"date":"2015-09-08T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T20:41:47","slug":"quick-tip-sending-your-gifs-to-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/quick-tip-sending-your-gifs-to-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick tip: Sending your GIFs to Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Photos automatically makes cool looping animations from your bursts, but you can&#8217;t share these GIFs directly on Instagram. Fortunately there&#8217;s a workaround (only on iOS for the moment):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the animation.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the Share icon.<\/li>\n<li>Choose \u201cSave as video.\u201d Photos will automatically replicate the sequence a number of times to preserve the looping effect (useful on platforms like Facebook that don\u2019t auto-loop the video).<\/li>\n<li>In Instagram, select the video from your camera roll &amp; post it as you would any other.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And voila, you get something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-version=\"4\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 62.421875% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/7WOcx_Tafv\/\" target=\"_top\">That thing where you&#8217;re just glad that #TheMountain didn&#8217;t eat your children. #HighlandGames<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A video posted by John Nack (@jnack) onSep 7, 2015 at 4:08pm PDT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Photos automatically makes cool looping animations from your bursts, but you can&#8217;t share these GIFs directly on Instagram. Fortunately there&#8217;s a workaround (only on iOS for the moment): Select the animation. Tap the Share icon. Choose \u201cSave as video.\u201d Photos will automatically replicate the sequence a number of times to preserve the looping effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}