How to save an Instagram live (yours or another profile)
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As lives are on the rise. And now you can save yours. In this tutorial, the showmetech teaches you how save a live from Social media coordinator (yours or another profile) on your cell phone and on IGTV and how to share videos from your live streams on your Instagram Stories.
If the goal is to save other content from the social network, also see how. Download Instagram Storiesas the download video from Instagram It is like Download photos from Instagram..
Artists, digital influencers and people in general are mobilizing on social networks as Social media coordinator e YouTube to keep in touch with fans and friends via live streams. It has everything: from classes on the most diverse subjects to improvised concerts at home.
The news is that you can now save your lives from Social media coordinator No. IGTV, so they are available to watch for more than 24 hours, and on your smartphone, so you can edit (if you want) and share on other social networks.
It is important to remember that to have access to these features, you need to update the Social media coordinator to the latest version, which is now available for Android e iOS.
How to save your Instagram live on smartphone
The process to download your lives from Social media coordinator on the smartphone is very simple and the same on both the Android how much in iOS.
To download your live on your cell phone, just do the following: when you close it, click on the option “download video“. Ready! Your live video will be saved in your smartphone gallery. This may take a while, depending on the length of the video and your internet speed.
When you download your live, only the video is saved, not the comments, likes and who viewed it during the broadcast. And the option “download video” appears only for the author of the live, after it is closed.
How to save your Instagram live on IGTV
Another novelty is power save a live from instagram No. IGTV. This is useful because the video is available both to followers who enjoyed the live and want to watch it again and to those who couldn't follow the live stream and want to see what happened.
The process to save the live in IGTV It's very similar to saving it on your cell phone. Just do it like this: when ending your live, choose the option “Share on IGTV".
Then just publish the video. By choosing this option, the Social media coordinator will upload your live video to your IGTV. Once the upload is complete, the video will be visible in your page feed in Social media coordinator.
To ensure that this feature works, the time limit for videos on IGTV increased from 15 minutes to up to an hour. That's because this is also the time limit for each live on Social media coordinator.
Share your live on IGTV through Stories
Another useful feature is sharing your videos from IGTV On your Instagram Stories. The process for doing this is the same as sharing posts in stories. See below:
- Click on the icon “Share” in the lower left corner;
- Click on "Add video to your story";
- Post the story.
Ready! Your live, saved in IGTV, will be shared and accessible to everyone who follows you. That way no one will be left out of what you do in your lives. That's if you want, of course.
How to download a live from another profile
Officially, Instagram doesn't have tools for you to download someone's live. But there are some third-party features and apps that allow this. Below, you can see options on how to download lives:
Print Screen
This is the simplest option. Just record the live as it is broadcast using your device's screenshot. Today, operating systems for both smartphones (Android and iOS) and PCs (Windows 10) already offer this feature out of the box, so you don't need to download an app for it.
Sites that download videos from Instagram
On such sites, you can download Instagram videos on your phone or computer. In this case, the sites that download videos from the social network also serve to download the lives, if the user leaves their broadcasts saved on IGTV.
An example of a site that does this is InstaSave. You can access it both from your cell phone and computer, through browsers. It downloads the video from IGTV using the link in the post.
Check out how to use it below (the same step-by-step goes for cell phones, PCs and Mac):
- Choose the IGTV video you want to download and tap the “...";
- Select “Copy link";
- Access InstaSave and paste the post link;
- Select “Download".
Third-party applications
Whenever a social network the size of Instagram refuses to create certain tools that users ask for, third-party applications appear that do the job. Downloading lives is one such resource. And the apps below can download them as long as they are saved on the user's IGTV.
For Android, an example of an application that is capable of downloading lives is Video Downloader for Instagram. The app is free and the step-by-step procedure to use it is the same as that of InstaSave: just open the app, paste the URL of the live and select “download”.
In the case of the iPhone, there is the application Reposters for Instagram, which does the same thing. The step-by-step is very similar to InstaSave. See below:
- Open the app and paste the video URL;
- Select the button “Preview Photo or Video";
- Select the share button;
- Touch “Repost on Instagram” (despite the name, this button at first only downloads the video to the iPhone gallery);
- If you really want to repost the video on your Instagram, just choose between Stories e Feed. If you don't want to, you can close the app and the video will continue to be saved in the gallery.
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Source: Instagram Help Center
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