You can make a week of social media posts in one sitting by batching the work in a fixed order: write the copy first, design one master graphic, export every platform size at once, then cut the video and thread variants from the same source. Alvseike Social is built for exactly this — it is a single desk where design, export, reframe, subtitle and thread-splitting all happen on your own device, so nothing gets uploaded and nothing waits in a queue.
This guide walks the whole batch, start to finish, in the order that wastes the least time. Plan on 90 minutes for a week of posts once you have done it twice.
Why batch a week of posts instead of posting daily
Posting daily feels productive and is quietly expensive. Every day you reopen a design tool, re-pick colors, re-type the caption, re-export three sizes and re-check the crop. That is 20 to 30 minutes of setup for five minutes of actual work, and the setup cost is what makes people quit in week three.
Batching collapses the setup. You open the design tool once, choose the palette once, and the copy is written in one pass while your head is in the right voice. The rest is mechanical: export, reframe, caption, split.
A second reason is consistency. When you design seven posts side by side, mismatched fonts and drifting colors are obvious and easy to fix. When you design them one at a time across seven days, they drift and you never notice.
Step 1: Write all the copy before you open a design tool
Open a plain text file. Write seven short captions, one per post, in a single sitting. Do not format anything yet.
Keep each caption to two or three sentences plus a line break. If a post is really a longer argument — a list of tips, a case study, a thread — write it long here and split it later in Step 5.
Label each caption with the platform it is for and the format: Mon — IG feed — quote, Tue — TikTok — 3 tips, and so on. That label decides what you build in the next steps, and writing it now stops you from designing a 9:16 story for a slot that needed a 1.91:1 header.
Step 2: Design one master graphic and reuse the layout
Go to the Social Graphics Maker and build your first post. Set your canvas, place the headline, add the background, and stop.
Now duplicate that design for the other six rather than starting from blank. Change the words, keep the layout. A week of posts that share a grid, a font pairing and two accent colors looks deliberate; seven unrelated designs look like seven different accounts.
A few rules that hold up across platforms:
- Keep the headline in the upper two-thirds. Lower thirds get covered by captions, UI chrome and the like button.
- Minimum 40px type on a 1080px-wide canvas. Anything smaller is unreadable on a phone.
- Leave a 60px safe margin on all sides. Crops and rounded corners eat the edges.
- Build one text-only quote card per week. It takes four minutes and it is reliably the best-performing format.
Step 3: Export every platform size in one pass
This is the step that saves the most time, and it is the one most people do by hand.
Take your finished designs into the Social Pack Exporter. It produces every platform's size at once — square feed, 4:5 portrait, 9:16 story and Reels, 1.91:1 link card, YouTube thumbnail, X header — from the same source, so you are not rebuilding the layout seven times.
Because a run is one export no matter how many files it contains, exporting a whole week of posts in one batch costs the same as exporting one. Free plans process up to 3 files per batch without an account or 5 with one, so split a week of seven posts into two batches, or sign in and run two batches of five and two. The tools are free to use at 5 runs a day, a free account raises that to 15, and Pro removes the daily cap and the batch cap entirely — see /pricing if you plan to batch every week.
Name the files by day and platform as you go (mon-ig-feed.png, mon-story.png). You will thank yourself in Step 6.
Step 4: Reframe the video posts to 9:16
If any slot in your week is video — and at least two should be — shoot or record it once, horizontally or however is comfortable, then reframe rather than re-shoot.
The Aspect Resizer converts to 9:16 for Reels, TikTok and Shorts without the stretched, squashed look you get from a naive crop. Check the framing at the top and bottom of the frame: the subject's head should sit around the upper third, and any on-screen text needs to be inside the middle safe area or the platform UI will cover it.
Do this for all the week's video in one go. Reframing is a rhythm — the fifth clip takes a fraction of the time the first one did.
Step 5: Burn in subtitles and split the long text
Two finishing jobs, both of which people skip and then regret.
Subtitles. Most social video is watched muted. Run your clips through Auto Subtitles to get subtitles burned into the video, which is what you want for feed video — a separate caption file is invisible to most viewers. Read the transcript once before you export; auto transcription is good but it will mangle names and jargon, and a wrong brand name burned into a video is worse than no subtitles.
Threads. If any caption from Step 1 ran long, paste it into the Thread Splitter. It breaks a long text into posts that fit the platform's limit, so you are not counting characters and guessing where a sentence should break. Read the result and move a word or two at the seams — a split that lands mid-clause reads badly even when it technically fits.
Step 6: Check your own account data, then load the week
Before you schedule anything, spend five minutes on the numbers you actually own. Instagram Unfollowers reads your own exported account data on your device and shows who does not follow you back, so you can prune a follow list that has quietly become noise.
Then load the week into whatever scheduler you use, or into a folder named by date if you post manually. Every file is already named by day and platform from Step 3, so this is drag-and-drop, not decision-making.
Why doing this locally in the browser beats upload-based sites
The obvious difference is privacy. Upload-based design and conversion sites receive your files, which means your unreleased campaign graphics, your client's product shots and your face all sit on someone else's server, subject to their retention policy. In Alvseike Social every step runs in the browser on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing to retain, leak or train on.
The practical differences matter just as much:
- No file-size caps. Upload sites meter by megabyte because bandwidth costs them money. Local processing costs them nothing, so a 400MB video reframes the same as a 4MB one.
- No watermark. Export sites that are free usually brand your output. Local tools have no reason to.
- Speed. A local export is bounded by your machine, not by your upload speed. A 200MB video that would take six minutes to upload takes seconds to process.
- No ads in the workspace. You are not designing a post around a banner.
Common mistakes and pro tips
Designing before writing. The most common failure. You build a beautiful graphic, then discover the caption needs a different image. Write first, always.
One design per post, from scratch. Duplicate instead. Consistency is the whole point of batching.
Forgetting the safe area. Text within 60px of the edge gets clipped on at least one platform. Check the 9:16 export specifically — it crops the hardest.
Skipping the transcript read. Auto subtitles are fast, not perfect. Thirty seconds of proofreading saves a re-upload.
Batching too much. A week is the sweet spot. A month of posts designed in one sitting goes stale, and you will want to react to something that happened in between.
Not keeping the source files. Keep the editable master graphic and the original uncropped video. When a platform changes its dimensions — and they do — you re-export from the master instead of rebuilding.
Posting all seven at once. Batch the production, not the publishing. The point of a week in one sitting is that the rest of the week is free for replies, comments and the posts that only make sense in the moment.