- In this video,
I show you how to upload videos to YouTube from your iPhone
and Android phones or tablets,
including your custom thumbnails and how to optimize them
for more views.
Hi, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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These days, it's easy to create and post your YouTube videos
all from your smartphone.
And the process is actually very similar on both iOS and
Android, but there are a few little hidden settings that
you definitely want to pay attention to,
to maximize your video quality and set your videos up right,
to maximize your views.
There are a couple of really small differences
between iOS and Android.
So, we'll cover these off as we go through.
So there's two apps you're going to need.
The first one is the YouTube app,
which is what you're going to use to actually
do the uploading. And then you want the YouTube studio app,
which is where you can customize it up and
add your custom thumbnails and all that fun stuff.
So you want to go ahead and open up the YouTube app first.
And the first thing you'll going to do is
to check your settings, to make sure that you're going
to be uploading at the highest quality possible.
So you want to come up to the little profile picture of you
in the top right-hand corner, come down to settings,
and these are all your YouTube settings.
You want to scroll all the way down
to where it says, Uploads.
Now, I strongly recommend that you are
uploading your videos on wifi,
so they're not burning through all your mobile data,
But you want to set here upload quality.
You can see here it's set to 1080.
If we select on that,
we actually get the option to choose full quality,
which is what I would recommend.
This will mean that we're uploading the best quality video
through to YouTube. So, once you've got that selected,
go back and then you can close out of settings
again and again, this setting is only on the iPhone or
the iOS side of things.
Android doesn't have this setting anymore.
It's already set as default to upload at maximum quality.
Okay, so now you want to go up to the top and
you want to press on the little camera icon,
and you want to go down to upload a video.
Now, if you haven't uploaded from your device before,
you will need to allow access and
grant permissions through, so we can go, okay, on these.
Now you want to select your video to upload.
So we're going to go ahead and pick this one here, 6:54,
which is one of our YouTube videos that
we've already edited down.
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Now, this next screen here that we're presented with,
is only on iOS. We don't get this on Android,
but it's really not that important,
we're going to skip it anyway.
But what it is, is it'll let you trim down your video here.
So if you want to adjust the start time or the end time,
you can do that here,
and you can also apply filters to change up the look and
fill of your video here.
But if you've already edited your video down,
you've already gone through this entire process.
So we can ignore this,
and all we need to do is hit next in the top corner to where
we're going to enter all of our details for our video.
So we're going to go ahead and enter in our video titles.
So we can just tap on where it says,
create a title and we can type that in.
Or if you've already pre-planned your video
and you've already got your title and your description,
everything planned out into a document ahead of time.
Then you can just copy and paste that information in,
when you're in the app.
This is going to save you a lot of time
when you're actually entering all of this stuff,
because you've already got it pre-planned out
and ready to go.
So I'm going to go ahead and open up a Google document,
which is where we've got all of our information here,
ready to go into this video.
So I'm going to select a video title here
and it copy, come back across to a title
and paste that in, exactly the same with our description.
I want to go back across and copy in our video description,
including all of our links and everything.
And I'm going to hit copy,
come back over to YouTube app where it says,
add a description.
I'm going to select on that and paste
all of that text in them, and back out of that one now.
Next we're going to change our video upload status from
public to private, so that our video isn't instantly going
to be released publicly.
We're going to lock it down as public so that
we can go across into the YouTube studio app and
add our custom thumbnail and any other settings or
adjustments we want to make to our video
before it goes live.
Next, you can add a location in here as well,
where the video was shot and where you're uploading from,
this isn't really a requirement, but to add it in,
you just press the plus button there.
You will need to grant access
if you haven't before and hit the plus again,
and let's choose Mooloolaba, which is where I am.
And you also have the ability to add your video directly
into a playlist.
If you've already got playlist created where this video
is going to be a fit, once you're done with those settings,
you want to hit next. And this, we need to answer
these two questions around,
if your video is made for kids or not.
So we're going to select here,
No, this video is not made for kids.
Obviously, if your content is made for kids,
then you'll need to select yes, it's going to be with no.
And the second one here, do you want to restrict your video
to an adult audience and says, this one is optional.
I'm going to leave this as,
No, don't restrict my videos to viewers over 18,
obviously select which is the fit for your content.
Then, you just hit upload
and your video will start uploading.
Now, I would recommend that you're leaving your phone on
and your app open, while this upload is happening.
Just so that, there's no potential issues with the video
that you are uploading.
Now you can see in our case here,
it went straight from uploading to processing.
And that's because it was actually uploading
in the background because we're on wifi.
And we're also on very fast wifi,
so it didn't take too long to upload.
So, once the uploading is completed,
you'll then go through and process your video.
And then you're able to see it in the YouTube studio app.
So, we're going to go ahead and open up
the YouTube studio app.
And this is a test account that I have.
There is our video listed there,
that most recent uploaded video.
If you're not seeing your video there on the homepage,
then you can come up to the little menu button
in the top left-hand corner,
come down to videos and it will be shown in there.
So we've got best free video editing software.
We're going to press on that one to add in
our custom thumbnail,
you want to come up to the little edit button in the
top right hand corner, then press on that.
Then you want to hit that little edit button in the top
left-hand corner of our image there on the screen
to edit out thumbnail,
whether want to come down to custom thumbnail
and go ahead and select your thumbnail image.
So you've got our one here. We're going to select that.
That's now added to our video.
Now, if you'd like to learn how to create
amazing looking thumbnail images from your iPhone
or Android device, then check out again the links
in the description for the couple videos there
to help you out.
Now, you want to go down to the bottom here and select
add tags, to add in all of your video tags here.
So these could be things that are related to your video.
So our video topic here, best free video editing software,
we would have things like editing software
and after each one, you just press return
and that will create it as a tag.
Now we've already gone ahead and created some tags again
that we can copy and paste in.
So I'll go back across to our Google document here,
grab our YouTube tags and copy and paste those in
copy and paste.
And we've now got, all of our tags entered in there.
From there, you want to come across to the
advanced settings at the top there,
and you can specify a category for your videos.
Now, we have found that the category doesn't make a
huge difference overall,
but pick the one that is going to be the best fit
for your content. I mean, for our content,
we would fit under people and blogs.
We would also fit under how-to and style,
and we'd also fit under film and animation as well.
So we're going to leave this one as film and animation
for us.
Again, just pick the one that's closest for your content.
You can then, specify the licensing or the ownership rights
of your content there with this next dropdown.
So you get to choose YouTube Standard License or
Creative Commons.
Now, Creative Commons,
pretty much means, that other people can use your stuff,
as it says, that with attribution.
So them, giving you credit for your content,
We're going to leave this as Standard YouTube.
And we're also going to leave all of the rest of the things
enabled there to allow comments that
users can view ratings for this video.
And also to allow this video to be embedded on places
like our website as well.
Once you happy with all of those,
you just need to hit the little save button in the top
right-hand corner and your video settings are now saved.
So now at this point,
your video is all set up and ready to be released.
So, if you want to release this now,
then we just go back into the edit button and come down
to where we set it to private.
And we just hit public and hit save.
And our video will now be released immediately.
Now, if we want to schedule this to be released
at a later date or a specific day or time,
then we can come down here and choose scheduled.
And we can select the date and time where we'd like
our video to go live. All you need to do then is hit save,
and your video will be released at that specific time.
So that's how easy it is to upload your videos to YouTube
from your iPhone and Android device.
And if you'd also like to learn how to create
amazing looking thumbnail images for your YouTube videos
from your iPhone or Android device,
then check out the videos linked on screen.
I'll see you in the next one.
Cheers.