why won't final cut pro x upload to youtube?

If you are still having trouble uploading directly to YouTube from the Share menu in FCP X, I've found out why it wasn't working for me:

My password with youtube had the special character "&" in it. FCP X (like some antiquated web sites) doesn't know how to handle strong passwords with special characters. It might support some, but not all. My main password uses an "&" and some sites require me to modify my password to not use "&". Youtube can handle "&" in a password, but something about FCP X's handling of special characters jacks it up behind the scenes, and the video never attempts to upload. I changed my password to one with only alphanumerics, tried to share again, and now it's uploading where it used to show an error!

Hope this is helpful.

I have the same problem with fcpx 10.0.5 full version on Lion.

When the rendering is done (no high processor load) the share monitor shows a remainig time of about 2 or 3 minutes. If I kill the rendering process (once!) the rendering process will restart and the upload to YouTube begins.

It seems to be a problem that the rendering process hangs / cannot halt after finishing the rendered file.

I confirm theEvID solution. I had also problem with rejected user/password, and I used a "!" character.

What I did was to change password to one made of letter and number only, and turned off the 2-step phone verification of google for this account.

Now it work perfectly regardless of the video resolution.

Hope it helps.

I tried "sharing" my project via YouTube only to have it FAIL 16 times (each time I did a variations of my Username and Password based off suggestions from this discussion). I was able to SUCCESSFULLY upload my video to YouTube once I removed the "!" and used all lowercase in my password. The YouTube password detector reads it as fair, but at least FCPX reads it and can process my file.

Good Luck!

After, getting the same error message, I just upload, my final videos from my Desktop to my You Tube account.

The problem is not You Tube, it is Apple's code writters. They need to correct the problem.

Cause, if you can upload to Vimeo, it should do it with You Tube. Also, who owns You Tube?

You might want to try to upload the video through another program. Export the video out of your FCP timeline and then compress it as an MP4 in compressor. Alternatively, you can just use this utitlity to upload it to youtube, as well.

I got sick of waiting for Apple to fix this, so now I export the project to the desktop, and then suck it up from there from my YouTube Channel.

Turning off Google's two step security did the trick for me. Couldn't upload, turned it off, profit.

What is "Google's two step security"? Can you be more specific, please?

I had the Channel issue with YouTube as well. Looks like it's a known issue and the fix is simply to update your YouTube account with a channel:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4162

Google's 2-step verification is a system that makes you enter a special passcode (a constantly changing code that updates every minute) once every 30 days on any given machine, in addition to your normal password. If cookies are deleted, you have to re-enter the passcode even if 30 days isn't up. You get this code either by iphone/android app or by text message.

Anyways, 2-step verification also prevents you from using your normal password on special apps, e.g. FCPX. For FCPX, you need to generate an "application-specific password" under your google account settings. It only consists of letters and numbers, so this should circumvent the problem of having symbols in your normal password.

Any of the application-specific passwords can be revoked by the user at any time for security reasons and/or paranoia.

Did anyone else figure out a new way to fix this problem? Cause i tried all of these solutions and none of them worked for me and whenever i try to upload to youtube it gets right to the end in the proccess and then just stops right at 95%, and i evem gave it like 4 hours and it did nothing. Any new solutions?

I had the same issue with the share function on FCPX. It was the 2 step authentication on google that was giving me problems. Turned it off on my Google account and the upload went fine.

I can confirm this. I just did the same thing: turned off Google 2-step authentication, and the upload went off without a hitch.

I, too, could not upload to YouTube from FCPX. I had the "+" symbol in my password. I removed it and went to all letters and numbers, and it worked!

Also, I never had the two-step sign-in turned on. So that was not a factor.

I feel your need to fix this, I hope you get it fixed.

I would always export the file to the desktop, then upload it. That was always an extra step to do.