We, Indians are always good in Jugaad! (Often termed as hack or an innovative fix).
Very recently, me & my colleagues were working on uploading an IGTV video at 10:30 PM, which was sent to us and uploaded by an influencer on his personal Instagram profile for promoting our campaign.
You must be thinking that what's a big deal in uploading an IGTV video. It would hardly take 5-10 minutes, not a big deal, right?
But unfortunately, this time it wasn’t a 5-10 minutes work like uploading other IGTV videos. You know why? Before we get to that, let’s see what actually happened before the final video post went live.
In the 1st attempt, I uploaded the video as an IGTV video from my office mobile. It was getting cut from 3 sides except the bottom, so I had to delete it.
In my 2nd attempt, I tried uploading the video from my desktop. Now this is new information for the people who aren’t aware that IGTV videos can be uploaded from desktop. So I tried that and again came across the same error. So I had to delete that video again.
In my 3rd attempt, I asked my colleague to do it from his mobile because the mobile from which I was trying to upload is very old & maybe that's why we were facing this error. But NO, again we came across the same error and we had to pull down that video.
In the 4th attempt, we consulted a few people from outside and they advised us to download the IGTV app & try posting through this app. But unfortunately, we came across the same error.
Now you guys must be thinking… Did you actually post the IGTV video or not?
Well, all this process took more than 2 hours, because the video file was too heavy. So every time when we tried to post, it was taking more than 15-20 minutes.
In my 5th attempt, I was exasperated and decided that 'Boss, now is the time for jugaad.. I’m downloading the video which the influencer has posted & uploading the same.' But the questionable point was about the video quality, will it be very poor because I'm downloading it from Instagram? To my surprise, when I downloaded the video, the quality was not bad, hence I went ahead and uploaded the video.
FINALLY, the video went LIVE post midnight, at around 1:00 AM.
Now you all must be wondering if I figured out why the video was getting cut? Well, It was because of the video dimension. The video shared with us was of the wrong dimension and the video uploaded by the influencer was of exact IGTV video dimension. So when we tried to upload the one that I had downloaded from the influencer's account, it went well, without any error.
I'm sure all of us have such "Jugaadu Moments."
Share them in the comment section below and keep the jugaad alive!