How to Upload Your Movie To YouTube.com

YouTube encourages you to upload your videos as close to the original source format as possible. However they do make this hard with a limited upload amount. YouTube recently began offering users an option to view content in high definition.

What Video Sizes are best for youtube.com?
Sizes like 640 by 480 or 480 by 360 are ideal. So when you export your video project try to choose these sizes but google suggests 1280 x 720 (16x9 HD) and 640 x 480 (4:3 SD) Codecs H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4.

"The frame rate of the original video should be maintained for better quality."

Optimizing Tips for YouTube upload

In almost every case your original recorded video will be too large to directly upload to YouTube. Fortunately you can save it in a video editing software in a less large format so you can upload your entire movie to YouTube.

YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG.

Maximum File Size that YouTube can upload is 100mb. Not very big for video!

YouTube encourages short videos under 10 minutes in length but hopefully this will surely change in the future.

What is the YouTube upload limit size for Video?

Try to maintain the aspect ratio of the original source video when uploading. If you footage stretches and changes shape it will reduce the quality and visibility.

YouTube player will automatically add vertical bars to videos filmed at 4:3. To make a YouTube video fit in their new player it must be filmed in 16:9 widescreen player size.

How Long should a video take to upload on YouTube?

It can take ages. Uhh! Things that can effect the time it takes are your connection speed, YouTube's connection speed and how many people are using it all contribute to how long it takes to upload your video. YouTube states if the loading bar is still active after 8 hours try again? LOL