How To Upload Videos To Youtube 2018

Metigy allows you to create and manage video posts that go published natively to Facebook and YouTube.

The following guide takes you lot through uploading and publishing your content to YouTube. We likewise include some tips to optimise your video as well equally some useful links.

Earlier we carry on, ane thing to note is that video posts get locked and pre-loaded 30 minutes before information technology is due to become alive. This is so that YouTube has time to procedure it on their side – something that can take 10-15 minutes dependant on their load. It will not be 'public' but sit down in a 'private' land. You tin can see that if y'all go to your YouTube Creator Studio.

Pre-Requisites for YouTube Publishing

The starting time thing you will demand is a YouTube folio to upload to. One time y'all've set that up, connect it to Metigy. You tin can read about connecting in the support article, Manage your pages.

Next is that your video is set up to go. It can exist in almost whatsoever of the most mutual video formats, including .mov, .mp4 and .avi. You can get the full list of supported formats on the YouTube support site. The file size is currently limited to a maximum of 1GB which should be enough for virtually xv minutes of Hd (1080p) video in the .mp4 format.

And one thing which is advisable is to have a Thumbnail created for your video. This is non mandatory simply recommended and we permit y'all choose a frame from the video itself if you adopt. The dimensions are 1280px broad by 720px tall.

Uploading a YouTube Video

First, if you aren't already there, get to the Metigy Content Planner
Then click Create Content to launch the Content Curator
To start uploading the file, either click on the media panel or drag the file into the uploader to start uploading your video. For a listing of supported file types, read our YouTube FAQ article. You will so see a progress bar. Delight exercise Not shut the window during the upload or the file will exist lost and you'll have to start over again – only Metigy will remind you if you lot attempt to.Notation: For larger files, uploading takes longer and is dependant on your connexion speed

Whilst your file is uploading

Whilst the file is uploading, write in your description for the video in the Add together Your Text field
Set the date and fourth dimension you lot desire to publish or use one of Metigy AI's personalised best post times.
Select the YouTube Location (and Facebook if yous want) y'all want to publish the video to

YouTube Settings

Upload YouTube Settings Customisation for Video

In the YouTube Settings panel
- enter a comma-separated listing of tags or keywords you want to apply. These tin can exist single words or short phrases such as "Metigy AI Determination Support Software". YouTube recommends a maximum of 15 but you tin add more than or less if y'all want.
- Choose a category for the video. Note that this is YouTube'south Category list and cannot be changed.
Select if you want the video to be "Public" or "Unlisted"
- Public: which ways it will appear in search engines, recommendations, etc.
- Unlisted: This means users need to know the exact link to see the concluding video
- Note: Information technology will exist uploaded equally Private, and and then changed to the above option at the go-live fourth dimension.

One time the Video has finished uploading

Once the video has finished uploading, you tin can either select a thumbnail from the ones nosotros've generated or choose to upload your custom ane
Check the preview panel to see check the content and brand any adjustments yous need to.
- Note: You can update the video equally many times equally you need to during the process.
If you are posting to more than than ane location, yous tin can Customize the post for each platform except YouTube. All settings for this are washed through the YouTube settings panel.
Save the mail in the lesser right.
- Note: If you are an administrator on the brand, you can Approve the post from the salve button.

That's it! Your video should now be prepare for review and approving workflow within the content planner interface.

Review, Corroborate, Publish

This is the workflow that helps to ensure that your content is reviewed. Equally an administrator, y'all can skip directly to canonical.

But, Metigy recommends you try to stick to this catamenia to ensure your content is ever reviewed, especially when with the editing restriction outlined beneath.

To approve the mail from within Metigy Content Planner, refer to the
Content Condition and approving it for publishing.

Stages of a YouTube Video Upload

Once a post is approved, the post volition get through these stages:

Canonical
- In this land, the video is ready to upload.
- You tin can still edit and change the video. Whatever changes yous make will revert it to draft
Pre-loading
- This occurs thirty minutes earlier the publish fourth dimension to ensure nosotros accept time to upload the file from our servers to YouTube's as they have to too process information technology
- It will appear in your YouTube Creator Studio just be flagged as private and processing.
- Whilst nosotros are processing it, the mail becomes locked, meaning you lot tin can't brand any changes.
- The processing stage is something YouTube does to any video y'all upload, even if done natively.
Ready
- In one case it's uploaded and we've received the ready response, we movement to the 'ready' state.
- It will appear in your YouTube Creator Studio as ready but will be set to private
- Ready posts can be unpublished and archive it if you need to.
- Please note that due to the complication of editing, re-uploading and restrictions placed on the states by platforms, we do not allow editing once they are uploaded.
- If you need to make changes, you will need to un-publish the video within Metigy and create a new post.
Alive
- Your post is now bachelor for everyone to see!
- Now, permit's start promoting it!

The other status that might occur is Rejected. This means that during processing, YouTube had a problem. Acquire about all of the reasons for rejecting a video and how resolving information technology.

Mutual Video Publishing Problems and How to resolve

Could not upload video
Nosotros try very hard to ensure that you have a seamless experience and fault tolerant uploading. Just, given the size of video files, any connection issue could impact the upload. Please be sure to make sure you take a stable connection and that the video finishes uploading.
Token has become invalid
This means that we don't accept permission to upload to YouTube anymore. It tin happen for a number of reasons. Read about managing and renewing your tokens.
Failed to upload
Metigy tries 3 times to upload any file. If information technology fails at that point this is usually due to issues with their API. We volition notify you lot well-nigh why this has happened
Rejected Video
YouTube has rejected your video for some reason. Acquire about all of the reasons for rejecting a video and how resolving it.

Boosted Reading and Links

- How practise you professionally light an interview video without expensive gear?
- Navigating The Content Planner
- Understanding Social Network Connect and Tokens
- Manage your pages
- Content Status and approving it for publishing
- YouTube Video Upload Processing Error Messages
- YouTube Upload Failed Mistake Articles
- Troubleshoot video takedowns
- YouTube Video Upload FAQs
- YouTube Creator Studio