Question 1

April 29, 2021

Accepted Answer

| Latest release June 29 2021.

Changes made during the release of April 29, 2021:

New: Direct publish to Instagram
New: Workflows page is now split into pages and loads faster
New: You can now search your workflow by name
New: You can now use the autogenerated captions from YouTube workflows
Fix: Using YouTube as Input loads the videos faster and is more reliable
Fix: Using more than one YouTube connections now works properly
Fix: The subscription page and checkout flow was revisited and overhauled
Fix: Captions works better on more quality video formats
Fix: Snippet workflows using hashtags is now faster and more reliable
Fix: Resyncing workflows is now faster and more reliable
Fix: Auto-sync workflows is now faster and more reliable
Fix: Improved our recognition system for catching new content
Fix: Improved our recognition system for inactive connections
Fix: LinkedIn “Share to my Profile” option now creates a more stylish post
Fix: Audio To Video workflows with Vertical templates were optimized for IGTV
Fix: Lots of improvements were made to our Custom template builder
Fix: Email notifications now work as intended
Fix: Sorting workflows now works as intended

Release Notes for Custom Templates (Beta)

New: Custom templates now Auto Saves on the fly
New: You can now change the caption color and outline color using Custo

Question 2

YouTube to Instagram

Accepted Answer

You can now repurpose videos directly from YouTube and publish them in different formats using Repurpose.io

|| Before you create your workflow, make sure to connect your Instagram account. Learn how here.

In this video, you'll learn how to create snippets (video clips with captions) from your YouTube videos and publish them to Instagram directly.

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For this example, we choose to create a Snippet workflow so we can select the part of the video that we like and set the workflow to make a square final video.

A few items you need to be aware of:

Instagram doens't allow videos longer than 60 seconds
Video dimensions are best kept on Square formats. Especially important if you are going to use Original video format inside Repurpose

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Question 3

Podcast to YouTube

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In this video, I’ll walk you through the steps to setting up your Repurpose account so you can automatically convert your audio podcast into a video and have it published to your YouTube channel under a specific YouTube playlist.

Visit the Connections Page
Choose “Podcast” and copy and paste your RSS feed or Apple Podcast URL
Choose “YouTube” and follow the steps to connect your YouTube account
Click on Workflows and click “Create New Workflow”
Give it a name (for example “Podcast to YouTube”) and click Next
Choose “Audio Podcast” and select your podcast from the list and click Next
Choose “Convert Audio to Video” and click Next
Choose “YouTube” and choose/create a playlist (optional) then click “Create REPURPOSE Workflow”
Click “View Episodes”
Click “Settings” to edit and choose the template for your videos (among other settings)
Click “Publish” next to the episode you want to publish
Optionally you can click “Auto” and automatically publish your entire podcast show to YouTube. This will automatically publish all your existing episodes (starting from a specific date if specified in the Workflow Settings) plus all new episodes going forward (with you even logging into Repurpose)

Question 4

How to reconnect a Facebook account?

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** If your workflow seems to have an issue:**

Try visiting the Connections Tab and click the down arrow next to Facebook and choose Reconnect.

After that, head to your Workflows Tab and hit the Resync button from inside the View List Page to refresh the workflow. Your content should now appear.

If the issue with your Facebook Connection persists, then try as follows:

Visit your Business Integration Page from Facebook.
Locate and check the Repurpose.io App and hit Remove.

Now you have to re-add it. In order to do so, proceed as follows:

Visit your Connections Tab on Repurpose.
Click on the down arrow next to your Facebook connection and choose to Reconnect.

On the pop-up window proceed and accept our Repurpose App.

That's it, you successfully reconnected Facebook.

|| If you still experience an issue, do cont

Question 5

How Do You Design Your Own Podcast To Video Templates?

Accepted Answer

Did you know you can design your own podcast to video templates using free software like Canva?

This video walks you through the steps:

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| Download samples and the design specs from here: https://my.repurpose.io/press_template/repurpose-custom-templates.zip

Keep in mind that templates that doesn't meet the specs are going to be displayed in all kind of clunky ways. For example:

Example template of 3840x2160. Horizontal templates uses 1280x720.

Question 6

How do I upload captions or .SRT file?

Accepted Answer

||| We currently support captions for video to video workflow only (audio to video captions coming soon)

There are several ways to upload captions to Repurpose for video to video workflows.

Method 1 - Working with Facebook Captions

Using Facebook autogenerate option (only for Facebook Pages):

Visit your Facebook Page, locate your video, click the (…) and chose Edit Video.
Select the Captions Section and if you have the autogenerate captions turned on it the captions should be already done. (If not, you can activate it or start the process to generate captions)

Once finished click the Review button to edit the captions and make any necessary corrections before saving your post.

Uploading your own captions to Facebook (Pages, Groups, Personal Profiles)

Open the video on your Facebook page, group, or personal profile, click the (…) and chose Edit Video.

Upload the SRT file to your Facebook video (we highly recommend you use a tool like Otter.ai to generate srt captions - very inexpensive and very

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