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What it checks
byteLength <= 1_000_000_000 per video item. Reels also have a 90-second duration cap that’s enforced at platform level (preflight doesn’t probe duration without ffprobe).
Why
Meta’s Instagram Reels documentation caps individual videos at 1 GB. Beyond that the upload is rejected.
Failure response
{
"error": {
"code": "preflight_failed",
"rule": "instagram.media.video_size_max",
"platform": "instagram",
"message": "Video is 1450000000 bytes; Instagram allows at most 1000000000.",
"remediation": "Compress the video under 1000000000 bytes (Instagram Reels accepts up to 1 GB)."
}
}
Re-encode at a lower bitrate. For a 60 s Reel at 1080×1920, ~6 Mbps is plenty:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -b:v 6M -c:a aac -b:a 128k -movflags +faststart output.mp4