How Do I Upload A Video From Google Drive To Facebook

(Pocket-lint) - Google+ introduced a bevy of photo- and video-related features recently, spurring the age-old question as to whether it's a better social network than Facebook.

Truth be told...Google+ and Facebook tin't easily be measured in terms of their status as social networks. Facebook is all about connecting people, while Google+ is attempting to exist a hub for your entire online life. The virtually contempo example is the integration of Google+ comments on YouTube. Some saw it as a streamlining of products and services under Google's umbrella, and more than astute industry observers realised information technology could have bigger implications.

Only we're getting ahead of ourselves. Instead of likening Google+ to Facebook entirely, we've merely gone the photos and video route. Google+ has indeed amped up its offering for both, though how do those new features compare to what Facebook currently offers?

Pocket-lint has pitted the 2 social network Goliath'south against each other, so read on to find out which ane is the best for photograph and video.

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Upload quality

Both Google and Facebook offer multiple methods for uploading photos either on the web or through mobile. Many users may want to upload at full resolution, simply this is impossible with Facebook. It compresses everything.

For better quality photos on Facebook, simply check the Loftier Quality box when y'all create an album. Unfortunately, you can only upload well-nigh 1000 photos per album. Meet Facebook's Help page for more details.

By default, Google+ uploads and stores at standard size with a resolution designed to await smashing on tablets (2048 pixels on the longest edge). Y'all can store an unlimited number of standard size photos on Google+.

If y'all adopt to upload at Full size on Google+, but enable it. Total size uploads are available when you upload on your desktop or with Auto Backup on your Android device, and they will count confronting your Google Drive storage quota. See Google+'s Back up page for more details.

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As for uploading videos, Google+ on the web and mobile features unlimited video uploads, while Facebook doesn't clearly specify upload limits.

Google+ users tin can upload an unlimited number of videos that are less than 15 minutes long and 1080p or lower resolution. Videos longer than 15 minutes long or taken at a higher resolution than 1080p will count against users' Google Drive storage quota. See Google's Bulldoze Storage folio for more details.

Facebook users can upload videos on both the web and mobile in HD. To avoid the rescaling of videos by Facebook's encoder, use a file with the larger edge of the video not exceeding 1280 pixels. See Facebook's Uploading Video folio for more details.

(Note: Don't forget that Google also owns YouTube, the king of Internet video.)

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Syncing

You can upload photos manually on Facebook and Google+ (equally mentioned above), or y'all tin use Photo Syncing and Auto Fill-in, respectively. They let users to mindlessly capture with their phones, while Google+ and Facebook auto-upload everything to a individual album.

Just turn on Photo Syncing in the Facebook app to salve mobile photos to a private section of Facebook Photos. Users can also easily share synced photos to their timeline from the desktop calculator. Encounter Facebook's Photo Syncing page for more details.

Similarly, on the Google+ app, both photos and videos from a telephone are auto-uploaded to a individual album on Google+. Run across Google+'s Machine Backup folio for more details.

Management

Google+ has many management features, with the most interesting one being Highlights.

Highlights helps users find photos they'll want to share by auto-curating the images they upload to Google+ photos. It basically de-emphasises duplicates, blurry images and poor exposures, and it instead - y'all guessed information technology - highlights the photos you will probable care more about. Meet Google+'s Highlights page for more details.

Aside from Highlights, users can too create a new album from Car Backups, change an anthology name, download an album, delete an anthology and organise an album. Come across Google+'south Managing Albums page for more details.

Facebook doesn't have a direction characteristic like Highlights. It only makes users manually organise their photos and videos. Specifically, they tin can tag photos and videos and create or delete albums. Users tin as well move photos and videos between albums. Run into Facebook's Organising Albums page for more details.

Sharing

Google+ users can share their photos and videos with the public, extended circles and circles. They tin can too share to people outside of Google+ past creating a link. There's even options for sharing with an event. Check out the video below for a quick preview on sharing using Google+.

Facebook has a sharing feature called Shared Albums. A shared album is an album that multiple people can upload photos to. When you make an anthology shared, just add together your friends as contributors. This allows them to add, view and edit photos in the album. Run across Facebook's Shared Albums page for more details.

As for sharing videos, Facebook users tin can tag, edit Privacy settings - and that'south about it.

Editing

Google+ via Chrome for desktop boasts many tools for editing. At that place'south a lightbox view for rotating and cropping photos, a photograph editor for altering brightness, details, hues, etc., and a bunch of creative adjustment controls such as filters. Meet Google+ Editing Photos folio for more details.

Google+ besides recently introduced photo-editing features that are automatically practical to any photo uploaded to Google+. Check out Pocket-lint's coverage of all 18 new features. I of the most interesting tools will machine-remove people in the background of photos, if desired.

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For more professional photograph-editing controls, Google offers the free Snapseed app for iOS and Android and the Nik Collection for $149.

As for videos, Google can now machine-edit videos uploaded by Google+ users. The feature turns shaky camera smartphone clips into spliced, shareable videos with soundtracks and effects. Bank check out Pocket-lint'due south coverage of the all new video-editing features.

Facebook on the web doesn't offering much in the photo-editing section, but it does have Facebook Camera and Instagram. Facebook acquired pop photograph-editing app Instagram in 2012, and the service has since reached approximately 150 million active users.

Instagram for iOS and Android features editing capabilities like filters, too as sharing and all the usual stuff, but it also recently added the ability to tape, edit and share videos upwards to 15 seconds long.

As for Facebook Camera, it'south a standalone photo app that lets Facebook users post a bunch of photos at once, run across friends' latest photos in 1 identify, play with crops and filters, tag friends, add together captions, etc. Check out beneath for more information.

Standalone apps

Google+ doesn't offer any standalone app for photos or videos, because it bundles all of its uploading, management, editing and sharing features direct within the Google+ app for iOS. Cheque out the video below for more information on Google+ for Android.

Facebook has a standalone app for photos called Facebook Camera. Its entire premise is about letting users share photos while on the go, mail multiple photos at a time and see friends' latest photos in a single feed.

Facebook Camera users can mail to specific albums, edit their photos, add location data, tag friends, designate who tin can view certain photos and more. Bank check out the video below for more information.

As for standalone video apps, equally mentioned earlier, Facebook has Instagram, which recently added the power to tape, edit and share videos up to xv seconds long.

As for standalone video apps, equally mentioned earlier, Facebook has Instagram, which recently added the power to record, edit and share videos upwardly to xv seconds long.

Video calling

Video calling is not currently available through the Facebook app, Facebook Photographic camera app or Facebook Messenger app. You can video conversation in Facebook on the spider web, though. See Facebook'south Video Chat folio for more than details.

Google+ has Hangouts. Information technology'south a congenital-in feature that allows users to make free grouping video calls across computers and Android phones. It too works right inside of Gmail. You can upgrade Chat to Hangouts by clicking on your photograph icon in Gmail's conversation list. See Google's Hangouts page for more information.

Google+ recently also appear updates to the Hangouts app, Hangouts Broadcast experience and Hangouts' video calls. The Hangout app added supports GIFs and SMS. Google+ as well gave users the power to programme Hangouts with a dedicated landing page, promotion tools and direction options (like adding and removing participants). Also, Hard disk is now bachelor for all video calls.

The magic in Google'southward Automobile-Crawly characteristic is now in the Hangout video experience, too. This will do things like boost light, enable blackness and white, turn on the blur or focus effect features, etc. Check out Pocket-lint'southward coverage for more than data about the new Hangouts features.

As for Apple devices, in that location's as well a standalone Hangouts for iOS app.

Conclusion

Google+ has everything only a standalone photograph and video app, which information technology really can't be discounted for because information technology offers features in its Google+ for iOS and Android app. Facebook on the other mitt has limitations in upload quality, management, sharing and video calls.

The obvious winner is...Google+.

Does that mean yous should carelessness Facebook altogether? No. Information technology just means you lot shouldn't use information technology as a primary tool for getting the most out of your photo and video collection.

Writing by Elyse Betters.