Hello, dear readers of my blog! Surely, you have accounts on various social networks and take advantage of all the benefits of such services. The site vk.com is one of the most popular social networks today, allowing millions of users from all over the world not only to communicate with friends and colleagues, but also to exchange documents, musical compositions, photographs, and recordings. In this article I will tell you about different methods of adding videos on the VKontakte website. You will learn how to download a file from a computer or mobile phone, how to send it to another person, download it from YouTube, etc. Find out about all the features of this social service so that you can use it in the future without any difficulties.
Send a photo in a message
Go to the “Messages” section and open a dialogue with the desired user (see how to find out if a person has read a message on VK).
At the bottom of the screen, click on the camera icon to attach a photo to your message.
Windows Explorer will open. Find and select the desired photo from your computer. Select it and click "Open".
It will be attached to the message (see if you can send a VK archive).
To select a photo from a contact, click on the paperclip icon on the left. Then select “Photo” from the drop-down menu.
A window will open in which you have options for selecting a photo:
- upload a photo from your computer;
- take a photo from a web camera;
- open the album with the desired image (see how to create a private album on VKontakte);
- select a photo from the general list
Add a photo to the message using any of the suggested methods.
And the very last option that I want to show you is inserting a link to an image (see shorten the VK link). Let's say you found a cool photo in Google Images, or anywhere else. And you want to send it in a message on VK. What should be done? Right-click on the image and select “Copy link to image” from the additional menu.
Now paste it into your message. The picture will automatically load.
How to send a video from your phone to VK in a message
To send a video from your phone to VK in a message, you need to perform the same manipulations as described in the previous instructions. The only difference is the different arrangement of buttons - due to the different interface.
- Open the mobile application and click on the cloud icon - you will go to the “Dialogues” section;
- Select the desired conversation, go inside and click on the familiar paperclip;
- From the list of icons that appears, select Photos/Videos;
- If you want to record a video right now, just below you will see the “Video Recording” button - click and start recording;
- Or scroll through the feed with files and look for the desired video in the phone memory;
- When you find it, press the “Attach” button;
- Please note that here it is possible to trim the entry - you need to click the “Edit” button;
- When you are finished with the editing, click on the “Done” button;
- Enter;
- If you wanted to send a message that was added to your profile, select the “Video VK” icon.
As you can see, sharing a video on VK with your friends via messages is not at all difficult, but do you want to know how to forward a video from an attachment to someone else? Just highlight a message with a recording and you will see a Forward button at the top. To send a video document to a friend on VK, find it in the list of your contacts that appears (you can use the search bar), click on it and click “Ok”.
By the way, the developers thought about the users of the social network, and left several loopholes on how you can save videos to your phone and even a couple of options.
Now add the video to the message
Here we proceed by analogy. The simplest option is to insert a link to the video (see video cannot load from YouTube to VK).
Or add a video from a contact. To do this, click on the icon in the form of a paper clip and select the “Video recording” item.
Here we select the desired video from our video collection (see how to upload a video to a contact). Or write the desired query in the search bar and select from the results found. Just click on the video with the mouse cursor to add it to the message.
Why is the video not being sent?
So, we found out that sending a video to VK is absolutely not difficult - you just need to click on the paperclip, select the file and click Enter. However, there are situations when it is impossible to send a video, either from a computer or from a mobile phone. What are the reasons and how to solve the problem?
Let's figure out why the video is not sent to VK:
- Your Internet connection may have lost on your computer. Check if other sites are loading;
- The social network website sometimes undergoes technical work - during this period there may be problems with loading;
- The maximum video size should not exceed 2 GB;
- Check your file format, our social network only supports AVI, MP4, 3GP, MPEG, MOV, MP3, FLV, WMV.
To transfer video to VK quickly, you must have an excellent data transfer speed - if it is low, call your provider and find out the reason. If you find out that the site is undergoing work, do not bombard the support service with angry letters - just wait a little. A video with an unsupported format should be re-encoded using special programs for a computer or mobile phone. The same software will help reduce the file size or trim part of the recording. Well, now you know how to send a video from YouTube or your computer’s hard drive to VK. You will also be able to send the video in a message from both your computer and your phone.
Be sure to tell your friends how to send a video in a message from a computer in VKontakte, let your communication become brighter and richer. Stay connected and share the most powerful moments of your life.
If the file is located on the Odnoklassniki website server
Videos can be sent without prior downloading by using the text form to search for the required file on the server. It is located in the upper right corner of the above window. You can find the video you need if you enter certain keywords. After this, you simply select the required entry from the displayed list with the left mouse button.
Now that everything is ready, the video should be sent by clicking the orange button with an envelope, which is located on the right in the dialogue. The interlocutor who received the message can easily familiarize himself with it by viewing the recording online.
Via Yandex.Disk
To do this, you need to register on Yandex.Disk. When you go to it, you will see the “Upload file” item, click on the “Select” button.
Using File Explorer, find the file you need on your computer and click “Open.”
Wait for the video to load. Find it in the list and click on it with the mouse. The “Share link” option will appear on the right. Move the slider to the “On” position and click on the “Copy link” button.
Go to your VKontakte page and open a dialogue with the friend to whom you want to send the video. Paste the link into the message field and click “Send.”
Now the interlocutor can watch the video and, if necessary, download it.
You can add videos, images or any other files to Yandex.Disk. Copy the links and share them with friends, both on social networks and via regular mail.
If the file is on your computer
First, you need to go to the “Video” section, located in the top (orange) menu of the site. Clicking on the video camera icon will open a new window.
Next, click on the “Add video” button, which is located at the top left.
This action will open another smaller window where you can select the source of the video being added by the user. In our case, the “Download from computer” tab should be open.
By clicking “Select files to download”, you can access the file system of the machine you are using and select the required file with the left mouse click.
Next, you should click on the “Open” button and wait for the video to finish loading and then being processed by the server. The duration of this process usually depends on the connection speed, the length of the video and its quality.
How to share a video, photo and personal message?
Everything is clear with a regular post in a group or on a wall, but what to do with individual files? If you want to send someone a photograph or picture you have found, you need to proceed as follows:
- First, you need to click on the image so that it opens in full screen.
- Directly below it will be the words “Share”, “Save to yourself” and “More”.
- After clicking on “Share”, the same window pops up as in the case of reposting posts. Once the recipient has been specified and all the necessary information has been added, all that remains is to click on the “Share photo” button.
We work with videos in a similar way. Once you open the video you want to send, you need to find the Like button right below it. Next to it is the word Share and a speaker icon. Further actions are similar to the previous instructions. The process ends with the “Share video” button.
Finally, you can repost a personal message, but it can only really be sent to some other dialogue with the person. This is done as follows:
- Having entered the correspondence, you need to find a phrase that you want to forward to someone else.
- You need to hover over it with the cursor, and then click on the left button.
- A blue highlight and a small check mark icon will indicate that the message has been selected. It is not necessary to send one phrase at a time - you can actually select all the necessary lines.
- At the top of the tab there are blue buttons Delete, Spam, etc. You need to click on Forward.
- After this, all available dialogs will appear, from which you need to select the one to whom the message is intended.
- By clicking on the dialog, you will see that the copied message is in the send field . The arrow on the right or the Enter button will deliver the repost to the recipient.
You should be careful when choosing a dialogue, since people often send private messages to the wrong person, including the person who wrote the message.
