Almost every client wants to see moving images today. A short video shows in twenty seconds what ten photos can’t: how you move, how you speak, how you come across. Here’s which videos we need and how to get them into the portal without losing quality.
Hardly any shoot happens without content for social media anymore. So clients prefer to book someone they have already seen in motion. If you only have photos, you often don’t get put forward at all — not because you’re less good, but because the client simply can’t see it.
30 to 60 seconds: introduce yourself briefly, turn around once, show your profile and your smile. Daylight, calm background, no filter.
The most important one to start with — so we can put you forward at all.
Clips from paid jobs, campaigns, your showreel — the finished work a client has published.
The strongest proof for clients: you have worked before, and it looks good.
Content you produced yourself for a brand or product: a recommendation to camera, a short story, an unboxing.
For everyone who also wants to be booked as a creator.
MP4 or MOV · up to 60 MB · 1080p · 30 to 60 seconds · no app logo. You can simply upload MOV videos from your iPhone, we convert them to MP4 automatically. The only thing that matters is that the file stays under 60 MB, otherwise our server will not accept it. With 1080p and a sensible length you almost always manage that without losing quality.
Set your camera to 1080p instead of 4K. On an iPhone under Settings → Camera → Record Video → 1080p at 30 fps, on Android in the camera app settings under video resolution. 4K doesn’t look better on a phone, but it is five to six times the size.
CapCut saves as MP4 by default, which is the easiest way. When exporting, set the resolution to 1080p and the frame rate to 30 at the top right. A clip of up to a minute then usually stays under 60 MB. If it gets bigger, shorten the video a little or set the bitrate one step lower in the export, if CapCut offers it.
The CapCut logo at the end can and should go. It’s a separate little clip at the very end of the timeline: tap it, delete it. To stop it being added in the first place, CapCut’s settings have a switch for the default ending. For client work, always without the logo.
You can upload straight from the Photos app, even if the video is stored there as a MOV. An Instagram link is not a video, though: we need the file itself. The original is still in your gallery or in CapCut, exactly as you saved it before posting. Instagram also compresses videos heavily, so the original is always the better choice.
HandBrake is free (handbrake.fr), for Mac and Windows. Open the original video, choose the preset “Fast 1080p30” on the right, click Start. You get an MP4 in full quality. If it is over 60 MB, the video is too long: shorten it and export again.
Only needed if your video is over 60 MB: in the browser with FreeConvert or Clideo, upload the video, choose MP4 as the format and 1080p as the resolution, download it, then upload the downloaded file to the portal.
The old trick of “sending it to yourself and downloading it again” does make the video small, but WhatsApp compresses so hard that skin and hair turn to mush. For work samples that show you to clients, that is a waste.
If a client needs the originals in full quality, they go out by WeTransfer or Smash as usual. The portal is for your samples — so we can show you to clients without you having to send something every time.
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