It is certainly an unexpected novelty, since the developers of Meta seemed to have dedicated themselves to the soul and body to the creation and promoting vertical content, starting from the same structure of the feed, yet here Instagram Users are surprising with the introduction of a “horizontal” mode for Reels.
With the new function, for the moment in the test phase, an alternative super panoramic mode can be experimented 5120 x 1080 pixels Definitely unusual. The announcement came official through the “Creators” channel, in which advice to the creators of content of the social platform are provided.
“We noticed that many of you have noticed the improvements that we launched at the beginning of this year for the Horizontal reels! “reads in the post,“I recommend by professionals: it works not only with the 5120×1080 format!”. The novelty received, as often happens in such circumstances, conflicting judgments, but certainly there is that at the moment the algorithm is pushing the videos made in ultra-wide to the maximum, making the contents of the Creators inclined to experimentation viral.
Creating a horizontal king on Instagram is very simple. The first obligatory step to be made is that of update the app to the latest version made available for Android or iOS. After clicking on the “+” button and selected the “Reel” mode you have to tap on “Layout Video” and then activate the function that divides the screen in the middle of the vertical direction.
Once this is done, the electronic device must be rotated horizontally and is ready to register both with the front camera and with the rear one: after the recovery, the content can be posted on its profile in a traditional way.
As mentioned, for the moment it is a novelty in the experimental phase, so it is not yet certain that it is confirmed and introduced definitively on the social network.