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LinkedIn has introduced a new short-form video feed, aimed at keeping up with the popularity of platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Now, users can upload quick, engaging videos tailored for a mobile-first experience. But whether you're crafting a thought-provoking clip or just promoting your brand, knowing the correct specifications for LinkedIn short videos will be essential.

Let's take a look at the new LinkedIn shorts video feed, including video size requirements, aspect ratios, and upload limits.

What Are LinkedIn Short Videos?

LinkedIn 'Shorts' are short-form, vertical videos that LinkedIn is testing to enhance user engagement and content diversity. Similar to TikTok and Instagram Reels, these videos auto-play in a dedicated video tab within the mobile app, focusing on professional and career-oriented content.

The feature does not appear on desktop versions of LinkedIn.

Once you're watching a video inside the new "Video" tab, LinkedIn also gives you options including the ability to show close captions, turn on high contrast, and select playback speed.

These videos are posted to LinkedIn the conventional way: by selecting Media when you draft your post.

But to avoid confusion, LinkedIn now offers three distinct video formats, each catering to different purposes:

• LinkedIn Short Videos (mobile): These short-form, vertical videos are designed for mobile-first viewing. Shorts appear prominently in the dedicated video feed and are optimized for quick, engaging content.
• Standard LinkedIn Videos: These are longer videos (up to 10 minutes) suitable for professional updates, thought-leadership content, or event recaps.
• LinkedIn Advertising Videos: Used for marketing campaigns, these videos are often shorter (15-30 seconds recommended) to maximize viewer engagement.

For a broad LinkedIn campaign, you'll want to post multiple types of videos, ranging from short-form to long-form.

LinkedIn Short Video Specs

Every social platform has its own set of video specifications.

Here are the sizes you’ll need to meet when uploading videos to LinkedIn short videos:

• Aspect Ratio: The ideal aspect ratio for 'Shorts' is 9:16 (vertical), optimized for mobile viewing. Horizontal videos (16:9) may appear cropped in the feed.
• Dimensions: Minimum resolution is 256 x 144 pixels, while the maximum resolution is 4096 x 2304 pixels.
• File Size: Videos can be up to 5GB in size.
• Duration: LinkedIn short videos are suggested to be between thirty seconds and one minute.
• Formats: LinkedIn supports MP4 and MOV file types.

So, you want a mobile-friendly 9:16 video that's relatively small in size and under a minute long.

Success with LinkedIn Short Videos

LinkedIn's Built-In Video Editor

LinkedIn has a built-in video editor (it's the same one that it's always had) that provides you with three basic tools:

From left to right, LinkedIn provides the following:

• Trim your video: Cut material from either the beginning or end of your video.
• Add text to your video: Add text in one of four styles (Headline, Retro, Minimal, or Classic).
• CC: Add automatic closed captioning to your video.

LinkedIn short videos are still very new as of early 2025. But if you want to make the most of the mobile feature, you'll follow many of the same trends we see on Instagram Stories and other short-form content. This includes adding subtitles, text overlay, and video and audio enhancement.

Unfortunately, none of these advanced editing functions are available on LinkedIn directly. Instead, you should use a third-party app like Kapwing, making the most of both free and paid tools to enhance your video content.

Resize Your Video

The most important step in creating great content on LinkedIn is ensuring that your videos have the correct aspect ratio. Use an Automatic Resize Tool to instantly crop any video to the correct 9:16 (vertical) aspect ratio and avoid content failing to fit the full screen on mobile.

With Kapwing, you can take a video from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more, instantly cropping it to fit LinkedIn and saving you from any manual editing.

Ensure Speaker Focus

Kapwing offers a powerful tool called "Speaker Focus," perfect for journalists, influencers, podcasters, and anyone uploading interviews to LinkedIn.

Simply upload the footage that contains multiple speakers and the tool will generate an auto-focused version that ensures the speaker is always centered in the video.

Add Subtitles

Many LinkedIn users watch videos without sound, making subtitles essential for engagement. While LinkedIn provides automatic captions, they’re limited — you can’t edit them if they're incorrect or customize their style to match your branding.

Subtitle Generator offers 99% accurate captions and a variety of customizable styles, including animations, allowing you to create content that stands out and aligns with your brand identity.

Trim Your Video

Use Video Trimmer to keep your content concise. LinkedIn's new short video feature is specifically targeted at videos of around 30 to 60 seconds on mobile. Not only does that mean that you need to trim your content down, but it also means you need to catch their attention fast.

While LinkedIn does provide a video trimmer (great for cutting down a few seconds), Kapwing also lets you split videos. So, if you need to cut a chunk out of the midsection of your video, we can help.

Adding to this, our AI-powered Clip Maker takes all trimming and splitting duties into its own hands.

Great for long videos (10 minutes), the Clip Maker analyzes your video and identifies a collection of shorter clips to use on social media platforms like LinkedIn. The videos are completely customizable, making it the fastest way to generate a series of highlights from one video without any manual editing.

Add Text and Effects

You only have a few seconds before your audience starts scrolling. Make your shorts visually appealing by adding text overlays, animations, or filters using Video Effects tools.

Highlight key points or add compelling call-to-actions with customizable text overlays. With Add Text to Video Tool, you can choose from 100s of fonts, colors, and animations to align with your branding and enhance viewer comprehension.

As noted above, LinkedIn does have a built-in text tool, but there are some significant limitations:

• You only have four styles to choose from.
• The text will appear on the screen for the entire video.

That means you can't pop up text during the video or change text during the video, you can simply badge your video for its entire runtime.

With Kapwing, text can pop up at different times and you have complete control over how they look and feel: fonts, font size, transitions like cross fades, outlines, backgrounds, and even special effects.

Background Music and Audio Enhancement

Amplify the impact of your shorts by incorporating royalty-free background tracks. Audio Tool lets you seamlessly add music that matches the content and tone of your video.

Audio enhancement doesn't stop there, either, with a Background Noise Remover feature designed for fine-tuning recordings in noisy places and a "Smart Cut" function that automatically removes pauses and stutters, perfect for vlogs and YouTube content.

Video Background Removal

With only a few seconds to spare, you need to make sure your audience knows where to look.

Background Remover uses AI to create clean, professional visuals that keep the focus where it belongs. No manual tracking or prior editing experience is needed — click one button and your video background is gone.

Audio Transcription

Generate accurate text transcripts of your video’s dialogue with our Transcription feature. Adding text enhances video posts and Shorts, and the tool makes it simple to extract key details for use in the post description, boosting accessibility and engagement.

Consider Dubbing for Multilingual Reach

Reach a global audience by dubbing your videos into multiple languages. Tools like Auto-dubbing make it easy to add high-quality voiceovers in different languages as the transcript, voiceover, subtitles, and lip-sync are all completed automatically with AI.

After all, LinkedIn is available in 36 languages, so why isn't your content?

How to Download LinkedIn Videos

You can download LinkedIn videos using Kapwing, including LinkedIn video posts, Shorts, and any other form of LinkedIn video that contains a published URL.

Simply head to Kapwing.com and click on "Add media" from the editor homepage. From there, copy and paste the LinkedIn video URL into the empty box.

Within a few seconds, the video will be loaded into the left-hand panel. Simply click on the video and it will be added to your editing canvas in the center of the screen.

You can add a range of free and paid edits or simply select "Export project" in the top right-hand panel to quickly export and download the video too your device.