How to Upload MOV (Quicktime) to YouTube Effortlessly

Many people capture MOV videos with their camcorders or camera, and upload these MOV files 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, MPEG, 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 UniConverter (originally 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

Wondershare UniConverter is an all-in-one video converter which can convert videos to 1000+ video and audio formats with easy steps. You can convert MOV to YouTube supported format such as MP4 without losing quality, and you're allowed to compress video size or edit video to make it more attractive. With this video converter, you can also download videos from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other video sites easily by pasting URL. Wondershare UniConverter works on both Windows and Mac system smoothly, you can free download and follow the steps in the following parts to upload MOV to YouTube easily.

Wondershare UniConverter - All-in-one Video Converter

• Convert MOV to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and 1000+ formats like AVI, MKV, MP4, WMV, etc.
• Edit MOV videos more attractive with trimming, cropping, rotating, adding watermarks, applying effects, etc.
• Compress MOV video size by changing resolution, bitrate, encoder, and others without losing quality.
• Burn and customize your DVD with free DVD menu templates.
• Download or record videos from 10,000+ video sharing sites.
• Versatile toolbox combines fix video metadata, GIF maker, cast video to TV, CD burner and screen recorder.
• Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6.

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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 target 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

Launch Wondershare UniConverter 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 a 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 from the opened format list, then click the YouTube from the left sidebar and select the video resolution in the right. You can also choose the output format in batch by clicking the button next to the Convert all files to: option in the top-right corner.

Step 3 Convert and upload MOV to YouTube

Click the Convert All or Convert button to start converting MOV to YouTube supported format (MP4) with this MOV to YouTube converter. The whole process just costs you a few minutes. When it's done, a notice will show, saying all the tasks have been converted successfully.

Now, you can upload the output files to YouTube very smoothly. Can't find the output files? Just switch to the Converted tab and click the file folder 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 Online UniConverter (originally 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 as it relies on your network speed. You can also make simple editing features with Online UniConverter (originally Media.io), but just trimming, cropping, rotating and adjusting brightness. If you have only several small-sized MOV videos to upload to YouTube, then you can try Online UniConverter (originally Media.io) on your PC/Mac.

Part 3. External Knowledge for MOV Video Sharing

Note: If your MOV or FLV 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.

Tips

If your MOV video is large in size and you want to compress it to upload to YouTube much easier, then you can learn How to Compress MOV Video Size without Losing Quality Using Wondershare UniConverter >>.