YouTube will then confirm when your YouTube account has been activated for longer uploads. From this point, any videos longer than 15 minutes in your Video Cloud account will be synced to YouTube.
It's hard to believe that before YouTube debuted in 2005, there were no widely popular ways to share videos on the internet with friends, family, and strangers.
But of course, today it's fast and simple to publish a video online.
Here's how to upload your own YouTube videos on both desktop and mobile.
How to upload a video to YouTube using a web browser
1. Open YouTube in your browser and sign into your account. Click Sign In in the top right corner and enter your Google account information.
2. Click the Create button at the top of the screen. It looks like a video camera.
If you see this link but you can't see the video in your channel, it's possible your video may not appear due to your YouTube account's privacy settings.
Try locating the video in YouTube's "Video Manager". To access the Video Manager, use this link or go to youtube.com and log in to your account. Click on "My Channel", then "Video Manager", then "Videos".
If you see the video you uploaded in there, you can change the privacy settings to make it appear publicly on your channel.
In addition to uploading to YouTube, we recommend you also save the video to your computer. This saving process is instant and will not take extra time. It ensures you have a local copy in case of any upload problems.
What to do if you see an error message or nothing happens
Here are some ways to solve the error if you're using Clipchamp's direct YouTube upload option and are seeing an error message during the upload process, or the upload does not start at all.
Option 1. Disable extensions
Disable extensions such as Ghostery and AdBlock Plus and reload the page.
Note that if you reload the page you will have to convert or record your video again. We recommend saving the video to your computer and uploading it separately via youtube.com.
Option 2. Check your login
Re-check that you're logged in to the correct YouTube account and they try re-uploading. You can do this by opening YouTube in another tab.
Option 3. Check your YouTube account settings
If your video is longer than 15minutes, check if your YouTube account is set up for long video uploads. See this YouTube help article.
If you have followed the above steps and the problem persists, try deleting the browser cookies on app.clipchamp.com that are related to Google and YouTube.
In Chrome browser, you can do this by clicking the lock symbol in the browser address bar, then clicking on Cookies.
Remove all entries related to Google and YouTube (e.g. select accounts.google.com and google.com and click Remove) in the popup.
Close the popup and reload the page. Next, try exporting and uploading your video again. You will be prompted to log in and connect your YouTube account again.
As mentioned above, we recommend saving the video to your computer first if you don't want to lose it.
If the steps above do not help, we suggest you save the processed video to your computer and then upload it directly on YouTube or contact our Support Team for help.