In this video we're going to discuss how you can upload a video to youtube, and in the previous
videos we showed how to do that from imovie but in this video we're going to assume that we have
already got an exported video from imovie or from whatever software you're using before we
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into your youtube account you should come to this icon at the very top and it says create
and that will give you this drop down where you can upload a video and you also have the option to
go live there if you want to do a live stream but we're just going to click on this create button
and if you go to your dashboard so i'm on my channel dashboard here
this is a secondary channel that i have you can see that the create button is much bigger in here
and once you click it you will get this overlay and this overlay allows you to simply drop a
file here or you can click the button and use the finder to to locate the file you want to upload
but in this case i'm just going to click the file and drag it onto this window
and once you do that then it will start automatically uploading your video clip
and while it's uploading and processing you're able to go into the details here and just fill
out the title of your video the description so you can say like a few sentences about to describe
what the video is about and all of these details will be populated once the video has uploaded so
it's trying to process a video right now but once it's completed you will see these thumbnails and
you can simply select them and if you scroll down further on this window you will see there are more
options so you can attach your own thumbnail but if you scroll down you can do playlists
once you click show more details it allows you to add tags for your videos so this is a very good
way for people to find your videos on youtube so you simply type the word and press comma or return
and it will break into a secondary word so you can have multiple tags here to describe your video
and you can also copy and paste in words so in this case if you have comma separated words
you can just copy and paste it in and it will automatically convert them into keywords for you
so underneath them we can select a language so in this case i want to set this to english
this just helps the search for your video so if you set these details correctly it means
that people can search for english only videos for example other than this you can set a category so
this is relevant to allowing people to find your content your videos but most of these things you
can set by default under your channel but you can also change them on a video by video basis
another important thing to note here is the age of the content for the audience
so if we scroll down a little bit there's an audience section that has been added
quite recently so in this case you want to make sure that this is not set specifically for kids
and you can also add on the second step then you can add subtitles or you can add
cards to your video so you can also just upload your video first and add these subtitles or cards
later you don't have to do it at this point so at this stage once we go to the third screen
we're seeing this checks so they have to check our video to make sure that it is safe to upload
this type of content and in order to make that work we need to allow the video to process first
but you can continue to the next step so what will happen if you do that is that the processing will
still happen after you've uploaded the video so we'll still be checking to see if it is uh
if it passes all the checks before it can be monetized for example but normally when i get
to this final stage i will just list the video as unlisted and that means that it's uploaded to
your account but it won't be published to your channel and the reason i like to do that is you
may want to go back afterwards i normally go back afterwards and add like a custom thumbnail modify
the description turn on advertising different things like that that you can do afterwards
that you may not want to do just at this moment so if you go ahead and click the finish button you
can see that the video is still uploading right now and it's telling us that there's approximately
approximately eight minutes left to complete the upload
so that will happen in the background and you can see it at the bottom right of our screen now
so you can continue just using the website and it will continue to upload in the background
so if you go to the content section on the left navigation you will see that
the visibility is pending and the video is still processing it's still uploading in fact
and we can't really do anything with this video until it's finished uploading so once
it's finished uploading then we can modify all of the details within that video so i fast forward a
little bit at this point so now the video is just finishing the upload so if we click on the video
name at the bottom of the screen so now that it is finished uploading if you click on it it will take
us directly into that video and we can update the details there so let's give this a click
and now we can modify all of the details here so we can change the title and description
even though the video is finished uploading now it's still being processed and that's why we don't
see all of the screenshots all of the thumbnails available normally i like to leave it maybe 10
minutes or so to leave to allow the video to finish processing before i would go and edit
any video so it's good to just upload it in advance and come back to a little while later
and that way you're not waiting for the screen or for the thumbnails to process and things like that
but after a few minutes this will appear like this it will show it's processing the hd version and
you can still modify some of the details you can modify the title the description etc but
it's just for the thumbnails that this is a bit of a problem at this point
so once the video has fully uploaded and fully finished the processing you will see
that there's a default thumbnail so it will pick one automatically for you whichever one
the uh whichever one youtube feels is the most appropriate thumbnail it will pick for you and
at this point we can come in and modify everything so we should be able to just make whatever
changes we want at this point and then put the video live so any of the settings that we have
changed at the upload stage we can also modify them here but if you want to put the video live
you go to the save or publish section and make this public so once it's public it
will automatically send out notification to all of your subscribers who have the notifications turned
on and it will also mean that your video can be found in search on youtube and it will appear on
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