Upload videos

Yous can upload videos to YouTube in a few like shooting fish in a barrel steps. Apply the instructions below to upload your videos from a calculator or from a mobile device.

Note: This feature may not be available with supervised experiences on YouTube. Learn more here.

Upload videos in YouTube Studio

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. In the top-correct corner, click CREATE and thenUpload videos .
  3. Select the file you'd like to upload.

Note: You can upload upwards to xv videos at a time. Be sure to click Edit on each file to edit your video details.

​If you lot close the upload experience before y'all cease choosing your settings, your video volition be saved as a draft on your Content page.

Details

Add together important details to your video.Note: Y'all tin can click REUSE DETAILS to re-create select details from a previously uploaded video.

Title The championship of your video. This field is required.
Clarification

Info that shows below your video. For video attributions, use the following format:

[Aqueduct Proper name]|[Video Championship]|[Video ID]
Thumbnail The image viewers volition see before clicking your video.
Playlist Add together your video to one of your existing playlists, or create a playlist.
Audience To comply with the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA), yous're required to tell us whether your videos are made for kids.
Age restriction Age-restrict videos that may non be appropriate for all audiences.

At the bottom of the Details page, select Prove MORE to choose your avant-garde settings.

Paid promotion Permit viewers and YouTube know that your video has a paid promotion.
Automatic capacity

You tin add video chapter titles and timestamps to your videos to make them easier to scout. You tin create your own video chapters or use the automatically generated chapters by checking the 'Allow automatic chapters (when available and eligible)' checkbox.

Any video chapters entered will override auto generated video chapters.
Tags

Add together descriptive keywords to assist right search mistakes.

Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video'due south discovery.
Language and explanation certification Choose the original video language and caption certification.
Recording date and location Enter the engagement the video was recorded and the location where your video was filmed.
License and distribution Select if your video tin can be embedded on a different website. Betoken if you'd like to send notifications to your subscribers for your new video.
Shorts sampling Allow others to create Shorts using the audio of your video.
Category Select the category of your video, such as education or one-act.
Comments and ratings Choose whether viewers can exit comments on the video. Choose whether viewers can come across how many likes are on your video.

Monetization

Ad suitability

If you're in the YouTube Partner Programme, you can use the advertizing suitability page to charge per unit your videos against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. This action helps usa make monetization decisions faster and accurately. Learn more about Self-certification.

Video elements

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

Subtitles and captions Add subtitles and captions to your video to reach a broader audition.
End screen Add visual elements to the end of your video. Your video must be 25 seconds or longer to add an cease screen.
Cards Add interactive content to your video.

Checks

Visibility

On the Visibility page, choose when you want your video to publish and who you want to encounter your video. You tin can also share your video privately.

Annotation: The default video privacy setting for creators anile xiii–17 is individual. If you're 18 or older, your default video privacy setting is set to public. Everyone can change this setting to brand their video public, private, or unlisted.

  • Save or publish: To publish your video now, choose this pick and select Private, Unlisted, or Public as your video's privacy setting. If you choose to brand your video public, you can also prepare your video as an instant Premiere.
  • Schedule: To publish your video after, choose this option and select the date you want your video to be published. Your video will be private until that appointment. You can also fix your video as a Premiere.

Preview your changes and make sure they follow YouTube policies, so click Save.

Notation: If your account has a Community Guidelines strike, your scheduled video won't publish during the penalisation menstruation. Your video is gear up to "individual" for the penalty menstruation duration, and y'all accept to reschedule it when the freeze flow ends. Larn more almost Community Guidelines strike basics.

Sentinel how to upload videos

Check out the following video from the YouTube Creators channel on how to upload videos.

How To Upload Videos with YouTube Studio

Learn more than about uploading videos

How many videos you tin can upload per day

In that location's a limit to how many videos a channel tin upload each twenty-four hours. To increment your daily limit, see this article.

Upload audio files

Yous can't upload sound files to YouTube. Come across a list of supported file formats that tin can be uploaded to YouTube.

To add together your content to YouTube, try converting your audio file to a video file by calculation an image. YouTube doesn't have a tool to do this, simply you can try other video editing software.

Learn the difference betwixt "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 figure out the all-time way to display the content. For the all-time experience, don't add together blackness confined to the sides of your vertical video. Whether the video is vertical, square, or horizontal, the video will fit the screen.

Figure out why your video's upload date and publish date are unlike

  • Upload date: The date you lot uploaded your video. Shows next to your private or unlisted video on your Content folio.
  • Publish date: The date your video became public. Shows below your live video and is ever in Pacific Standard Time (PST).

These 2 dates can exist dissimilar if you lot uploaded your video as individual or unlisted, and made it public subsequently.

Empathize video quality processing

When you upload a video, it will initially exist processed in low resolution. This process helps you complete the upload process faster. When the upload flow is complete, your video will be available to stream in low resolution, on a wide multifariousness of devices.

Higher resolutions, such equally 4K or 1080p, can have more time to process. While this processing happens, your video may seem to exist missing college resolutions for several hours. Once high-resolution processing is finished, higher resolutions volition be bachelor on your video. Learn more about video processing after upload.

Related links

  • Mutual uploading errors
  • Go an overview of aqueduct operation
  • Channel customization
  • Edit video settings
  • Creator updates

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