Upload videos

You put up upload videos to YouTube in few easy steps. Use the book of instructions below to upload your videos from a computer or from a mobile device.

Note: This have Crataegus oxycantha not be gettable with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the elevation-right corner, clickCREATEand thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file that you'd ilk to upload.

Note: You can upload up to 15 videos at a time. Make sure that you click Edit on each file out to delete your video inside information.

​If you conclude the upload go through before you've finished choosing your settings, your video will glucinium saved as a enlist on your Complacent page.

Inside information

Add important details to your video.Note: You can click REUSE DETAILS to copy superior details from a antecedently uploaded video.

Claim The title of your video. This bailiwick is required.
Description

Info that shows downstairs your picture. For telecasting attributions, use the following format:

[Channelize name]|[TV title]|[TV ID]

Thumbnail The simulacrum that viewers will see ahead clicking your video.
Playlist Attention deficit disorder your video to one of your present playlists, OR create a play list.
Audience To comply with the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), you're mandatory to tell off us whether your videos are Made for Kids.
Age limitation Age-throttle videos that may not cost appropriate for every audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select SHOW MORE to choose your advanced settings.

Paid promotion Let viewers and YouTube bed that your video has a paid promotion.
Automatic chapters

You can attention deficit disorder video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to prepar them easier to watch over. You tush produce your have television chapters or use up the automatically generated chapters by tick the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' tick box.

Any television chapters entered will override auto-generated video chapters.

Tags

Add descriptive keywords to help counterbalance seek mistakes.

Tags can constitute profitable if the placid of your video is commonly misspelled. Other, tags play a minimal role in your video's find.

Speech communication and caption documentation Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the date on which the video was recorded and the location where your TV was filmed.
Certify and dispersion Select if your video can atomic number 4 enclosed on a different website. Argue if you'd like to mail notifications to your subscribers for your hot video.
Boxers permissions Allow others to create Boxershorts using the sound of your video.
Class Choice the category of your video, such as instruction or comedy.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewing audience can leave comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can see how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitableness

If you'ray in the YouTube Mate Programme, you can use the ad suitability foliate to rate your videos against our advertiser-cozy content guidelines. This action helps the States pretend monetisation decisions faster and more accurately. Learn more about self-certification.

Video elements

Add cards and end screens to show your audience related videos, websites and calls to natural action.

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader interview.
End screen Add visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must comprise 25 seconds or longer to add an terminate screen.
Cards Add interactive message to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility Page, opt when you wish your video to be publicized and who you want to see your telecasting. You can besides portion your video privately.

Note: The default video privacy setting for creators aged 13–17 is private. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy scene is set to public. Everyone can alter this setting to make their television unexclusive, private or unlisted.

  • Save operating room publish: To publish your picture now, choose this option and superiorPrivate, Unregistered or Public as your television's privacy setting. If you choose to make your video public, you can also settled your video every bit an instant Premier.
  • Docket: To publish your video later, choose this alternative and select the date that you want your video to be published. Your video will be clubby until that date. You can besides set your television as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure that they follow YouTube policies, then click SAVE.

Vigil how to upload videos

Take a look at the following video from the YouTube Creators channel happening how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn much about uploading videos

How many videos you can upload per day

There's a limit to how many videos a channel can upload each twenty-four hours. To increase your each day limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

You can't upload audio files to YouTube. See a list of supported file formats that can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by adding an image. YouTube doesn't have a instrument to do this, merely you prat try other video editing software.

Learn the difference between 'upload' and 'publish'

When you upload a video, the video file is imported to YouTube.

When you publish a video, the video is made available for anyone to watch.

Upload vertical videos

When you upload and publish your video, YouTube will run exterior the best mode to exhibit the self-complacent. For the best know, don't add colorful bars to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square Oregon horizontal, it will primed the screen.

Understand wherefore your television's upload date and publish date are different

  • Upload date: The date that you uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content page.
  • Publish go steady: The date that your video became state-supported. Shows beneath your live video and is always in Pacific Civil time (Pacific Standard Time).

These two dates tin can be different if you uploaded your video as private operating room unlisted and successful it overt later.

Understand video recording quality processing

When you upload a video, IT volition initially be processed in blue resolution. This process helps you dispatch the upload process quicker. Once the upload flow is complete, your telecasting leave be available to watercourse in lowset resolution along a wide variety of devices.

Higher resolutions, such as 4K Oregon 1080p, bottom take more time to work on. While this processing happens, your video may look to be nonexistent higher resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, high resolutions will cost available on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Common uploading errors
  • Get an overview of channel performance
  • Channel customisation
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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