I want to export a video as an mp4 for instagram. I select MPEG-4 but the extension on the rendered video is m2ts and instagram doesnt recognise it. Thank you in advance if someone can help! Im using Windows 10.
In the export dialogue, at the top, click the Presets dropdown and choose a lower resolution eg MP 4 SD. That'll force MEP to change to MP4. This is for Whatsapp, so could be the same for Instagram: you then need to go into "Advanced" and tick the "Streamable" tickbox. Otherwise Whatsapp won't recognise your video as a playable video. You can further modify the output parameters there eg bitrates, encoding quality and sound bitrate.
When you're happy with the result, you can save your parameters by clicking on the small floppy disk icon at the top.
I think M2TS is default MEP output because your file is HD (probably an MP4! 😀).
Edit: I just had a go and that works OK; but Instagram cropped the sides off the video to square. You can crop to square in MEP: Click on the video object on the timeline (turn it yellow), then click the Effects tab and scroll down to the Video/animation bit, and click on Section. In there you'll be able to set up a square zone (have a play with the bits and pieces there and report back if you get stuck). Just export using the above values and you'll end up with a black section to the side/s of your square video. Instagram will ignore the black bit and display your nice square video.
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Hmmm, not as simple as I described above. I did a couple of trials and this is what I found to export a truly square video (well, an eyeballed square😉).
1. Set the Movie settings (File>Settings>Movie) to square parameters. Initially I chose 720x576 16:9 from the dropdown list, then I changed the Resolution pixels to 720 and 720, then changed the Ratio to 1:1. You may get a message re changing the display size to match the movie. Choose Yes.
2. Now go to the Effects list and click on "Section". Click Like Movie (that'll set the selector area to square, to match the Movie Setting you did in step 1, not the "movie"/video file you are editing.
3. Drag out your square selector area on your video in the Preview window.
4. Now export: File>Export Movie>Video as MPEG 4, choose a lower resolution Preset such as 720x576 (to force MEP to export in MP4 format) and set the same parameters as above, via the three dots buttons, for Resolution and Ratio.
5. Click Advanced and tick the "Streamable" box (and change any other parameters if you wish, including video bit rates, coding quality and sound bit rate).
Then continue the export as normal.