How to Upload MOV (Quicktime) to YouTube Effortlessly

Many people capture MOV videos with their camcorders or camera, and upload these MOV footages to YouTube for sharing with family and friends, but only to encounter such error: MOV files can't be recognized by YouTube, which officially says support MOV. What's the matter? First, let's see YouTube supported formats - YouTube fully supports MP4, AVI, WMV, MPEGPS, FLV, 3GP and WebM. If your MOV file is not encoded with the video and audio codec mentioned above, it won't be accepted by YouTube. So to successfully upload MOV to YouTube, you'd better convert MOV to YouTube-supported formats first. For this purpose, an easy-to-use yet powerful tool - Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate is introduced in this guide.

• Part 1. Most Effective Way to Upload MOV to YouTube
• Part 2. Free Solution to Upload MOV to YouTube
• Part 3. External Knowledge for MOV Video Sharing

Part 1. Most Effective Way to Upload MOV to YouTube

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In addition, as known to all, YouTube won't accept a file exceeding 10 minutes. If your MOV file is too long to upload, this app can also let you split it to the specific length easily. Next, I'll show you the whole process. It's really simple, just three steps.

1. Load your tagert MOV video to MOV to YouTube converter.
2. Select an output format that is supported by YouTube and start MOV to YouTube conversion.
3. Upload converted MOV videos to YouTube.

How to Convert MOV to YouTube-Supported Format

Step 1 Add MOV files to this MOV to YouTube converter

Start Video Converter Ultimate after the installation. To add MOV to this MOV to YouTube converter, you can either hit the Add Files button in the upper left hand corner, or directly drag and drop the MOV file into the software window.

Step 2 Choose an directly-optimized preset for YouTube

This smart app directly offers users an optimized format for YouTube, you just need to click the drop-down button and choose Video tab, then click YouTube from the left side bar and select the video resolution in the right.

Step 3 Convert and upload MOV to YouTube

Click the Convert button at the bottom right corner of this MOV to YouTube converter interface. The whole process just costs you a few minutes. When it's done, a notice will show, saying all the tasks have been finished.

Now, you can upload the output files to YouTube very smoothly. Can't find the output files? Just switch to Converted tab and click the file folder like icon to open the file folder on your computer. Or you can watch the specified video tutorial below.

Part 2. Free Solution to Upload MOV to YouTube

If you want to find a free solution to convert and upload MOV to YouTube, you can take advantage of the online free video converter Media.io to get the work done. This online converter also allows you to select the YouTube format for conversion, but note that this free online converter is extremely time-consuming and doesn't allow you to edit the video. If you only want a video clip, you should use the most effective Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate mentioned above.

Part 3. External Knowledge for MOV Video Sharing

Note: If your MOV file is too large to upload to YouTube, you can split it to the specific length (not more than 10 minutes). So you just need to trim the video and only get the video clip you need.

1. Click the Trim button (the left one) under the video thumbnail.





2. Then you'd get a separate Trim window, where you can set the start time and end time of the video clip.





3. After trimming, click the Save button to proceed.