Comments on: Best Way to Upload Video to YouTube on a Mac

By: lukemartin

lukemartin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:33:16 +0000

hello, I found this info very helpful. Thanx guys

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:29:16 +0000

I tried that it didn’t work at all.

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:13:40 +0000

For sites like Digg or Reddit, it seems that timing is important. For YouTube, I think it is less important. My point was, if you upload something in the morning in California, thinking that the morning is the best time for an upload, that same upload taking place:

- 3 hours later on the east coast
- 9 hours later in Europe
- 16 hours later in China

By: bhupen

bhupen — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:05:08 +0000

I went there but you still didn’t mention time. Which time are we talking about even in us there are so many time zones. I guess you meant california time zone? I am pretty sure lot of users have this question but why there are no accurate answers?

By: Video SEO

Video SEO — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:35:43 +0000

I have your answer Robert and Bhupen.

This post at ReelSEO - http://reelseo.com/youtube-traffic-analysis-seo/ talks about the best time, best day, best category and others for uploading video to youtube.

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:23:04 +0000

@Bhupen: I don’t really know, I just know about the compression settings.

IMO, it is all relative. Best upload time for which time zone? Which country? I’m in China, so if you uploaded in the morning in California I’d see it at night here.

By: bhupen

bhupen — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:51:22 +0000

What’s the best time to upload your video on youtube.com? I understand that weekends are the time. But does anyone know exact time frame for each day of the week. Many of us want our videos to have the maximum exposure and uploading your video during the peak pear can get some views.

So anyone with a chart for say “The Best Time To Upload Your Videos On Youtube” ? Please give the date, time from and time to, etc.

Thank you much. I hope I will hear some expert here.

By: DJ Purple

DJ Purple — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:24:14 +0000

VideoPut is PC only, not Mac - I’m still looking for an answer to the same question as Joe Nash. For now am using archive.org to store videos, since I can use CyberDuck to upload with resume on broken DSL connection for large files (very bad DSL these days)…

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:39:29 +0000

read this

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/youtube_compressor_gary.html

By: SST

SST — Sun, 13 May 2007 14:21:29 +0000

There is a tool called VideoPut. It can batch upload movies to YouTube and few others websites.

http://nuclear-coffee.com/php/products.php?id=VideoPut

By: Joe Nash

Joe Nash — Wed, 02 May 2007 23:43:58 +0000

I came to this site wondering about a slightly different question… However thanks for the information, it is all very useful.

My question is, what’s the best way (software) to physically upload the file on a Mac? I’ve tried both Firefox and Safari, they seem to just hang there for much longer than it should take to upload. Internet Explorer on the PC gives you a feedback panel, showing you how much has already been uploaded. Surely there is some way of getting a similar result on the Mac, or do I have to use Internet Explorer on the Mac? (yik…)

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:41:45 +0000

I think the 320×240 deal is for the noobs on the web that use iMovie or whatever Windows ships, and they just select that 320×240 preset.

The “best” setting is really subjective. I’ve been looking at more videos lately there is a threshold at You Tube. Just as long as it doesn’t look terrible, I think these settings (and their recommedations) are as good as it gets.

Keep in mind, you’re uploading your ‘exported’ movie to You Tube so they can re-export it. Third generation video from the original? How good could it possibly look?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:42:54 +0000

I’d be interested to see what your tests reveal concerning the uploading of videos with different dimensions. I know that Youtube recommends resizing to 320×240, but I can’t help but wonder if they’re only saying that to save on server space and that higher resolution videos would actually look better. Please let us know what you discover.

By: Robert Thompson

Robert Thompson — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:17:13 +0000

More information about the video is here, thanks for your interest.

(It’s my cover of “How to Save a Life” by The Fray.)

By: yaleatme

yaleatme — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:45:52 +0000

what is the name of the song playing in the background? it’s beautiful and i’d like to get a recording of it.