I’m trying to upload the QuickTime files to YouTube. However, I failed all the time. I checked for the supported format of YouTube, and I found that QuickTime files, or MOV videos are just inside the supported list. But why? How can I figure it out in a rather easy way?
Well, it is true that YouTube supports MOV files, but still many people could not upload MOV to YouTube. Before uploading the QuickTime videos, you should make sure whether your videos are less than 2GB and below 10 minutes. Since QuickTime MOV files can be large in size for most of the time, your failure can be caused mainly by the size of it. As to the size problem, if your videos are just under 10 minutes, you can either cut the video into several smaller pieces, or convert it into a smaller format file. If your videos are over 10 minutes, you should both cut and convert it to another format.
Then how? To achieve both of these two process, you can use a MOV to YouTube Converter to trim the videos into several segments that is under 10 minute for each and then convert MOV to FLV, or convert MOV to MP4, the supported format for YouTube and both with a small size.
Tip: there still has the Mac version, i.e. MOV to YouTube Converter Mac
Even though we got the MOV converter, how to use it? Don’t be worried. The usage of this converter is just like a piece of cake. You can learn the detailed of how to use it with the following steps:
Step 1. Import QuickTime MOV to the converter
When you finish downloading and installing the MOV to YouTube Converter, you can then launch it. When those are ready, you can hit “Add File” to select the files that you want to convert.
Tip: You can also do the batch converting with this converter. That is to say, you can convert lots of the videos at a time automatically.
Step 2. Split the MOV videos
With this converter, you can split your videos due to setting a certain time per video, or you can input how many segments you want, and the program will calculate the time of each video and split them due to the number of segments. Just click “Split” button on the top, beside “Trim” and “Edit”. Then you’ll see the “Split” window, set whether the duration of each clips, or the segments of this video.
Step 3. Pick out the exact YouTube format for output
In this step, just click “Convert to” bar to click “Web share”-> “FLV H.264(*.flv)”. Or “YouTube MP4(*.mp4)”, then you can output the proper video format to share them on YouTube.
Step 4. Convert MOV to YouTube
It’s the end, you can finally make convert MOV files. What you need to do is to hit the big round button and it’s on the right. When finishes this conversion, you can find the “Open” button to check the converted files.