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How to connect your social accounts and set up caption templates in SceneStealer.

Connecting your social accounts

Before you can publish a clip, connect the account you want to publish to from the Connected Accounts tab. YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are all supported.

1. Open Connected Accounts and click Connect next to the platform you want.
2. A new tab opens where you sign in and authorize SceneStealer on that platform’s own site — your credentials never pass through SceneStealer itself.
3. Once you’ve finished authorizing, come back to the SceneStealer tab. It checks automatically for up to two minutes and adds the new connection to your list once it sees it — no need to refresh.

Instagram needs a Professional account. This is a platform requirement, not something specific to SceneStealer — Instagram’s publishing API only works with Business or Creator accounts, linked to a Facebook Page. Switching is free and takes under a minute: open Instagram, go to Settings → Account type and tools → Switch to professional account, choose Creator, then link it to your Facebook Page when prompted.

Already have a Professional account but the connection still fails? Having a Professional account isn’t enough on its own — it has to be linked to the same Facebook Page you connect to SceneStealer, and both need to sit in the same Meta Business Portfolio. If you see an error like “We couldn’t find any business connected to the selected pages,” that link is missing, or the two are in different portfolios. Fix it from the Instagram app: your profile → Edit profile → Public business information (Business accounts) or Profile information (Creator accounts) → Page → Connect or create, then choose the Facebook Page you use with SceneStealer. Once it’s linked, try Connect Instagram again — you may need to remove a failed attempt first if one is still listed as connected.

Disconnecting an account (from the same page) revokes SceneStealer’s access immediately — it doesn’t just stop us from using it, it actually invalidates our access on the platform’s side. Once an account is connected, there’s nothing more to manage there day-to-day.

How caption templates work

A template is a caption you write once, with variables in it that get filled in automatically each time you use it — so you're not retyping the same structure (and hashtags) for every clip.

1. Go to Caption Templates and create one: give it a name, optionally restrict it to one platform, and write the caption. Drop in variables like {{video_title}} or {{venue}} anywhere you want them filled in.
2. When you publish a clip, pick a template from the dropdown. Your caption is generated immediately, with every variable substituted — you can still edit it by hand before you hit Publish.
3. A template scoped to one platform only shows up when you’re publishing to that platform; leave the platform set to “Any platform” to make it available everywhere.

Not every clip has every variable available — a screen recording, for instance, has no device or location metadata. A variable with nothing to fill just gets quietly dropped from the caption rather than left in literally. See the full list of available variables, with examples, on the Caption Templates page.

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