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

I was able to successfully upload just one video from X into my YouTube channel and now each time I get "Invalid Account Name or Password" despite that I've entered the correct name and password. I'm able to log on to my YouTube account with my UN/PW so I'm wondering what's up. I've thrown out X preferences to no avail. My work around has been to export locally then use YouTube's website Upload feature and input all of my metadata there. Has anyone at Apple formally acknowledged this issue let alone a competent answer?

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This did not work.

Is it possible that this is Apple's way of retaliating against Google?

Vimeo accepted my login right away also. What gives?! Can anyone shed light as to why Apple hasn't address this issue since it first came up in 2011?!?!?!?!

I already have a YouTube channel. For my first upload, I was in the old YT UI and it took it. The second video was denied due to wrong account name and password. I set up a Vimeo account and it accepted it right away.

If you note what's happening to just about all of us, we're not even getting to this point because when we go to upload or even create YouTube as a destination, we can't even get past that point.

Mesmee I'm having the exact same problem and it's driving me NUTS!

I've been uploading videos from FCPX to Youtube for weeks with no dramas at all. All of a sudden today, it won't accept my username and password. I KNOW I'm typing it in right and I even changed my Youtube / Google password and still no luck.

Can't for the life of me figure out the problem. I've never used Vimeo but looks like I will have to.

Please, if anyone has a solution to this, we'd love your help 🙂

Hey fridgy,

The problem is apparently not on our end. It's definitely got something to do with either Apple and/or Google/YouTube. I tried to upload to Vimeo but now I'm getting Vimeo message saying my 30 minute 1280x720 video upload is too long. So now I'm at a stand still until tomorrow.

I'm scheduled to speak with Apple Pro Apps Tech Support tomorrow at 10 am. I'll let you know what I find out.

sleep it off for now...

Hey Mesmee,

Ok thanks very much for that. It's at least nice to speak to someone who is suffering the same problem!

By the way, you're right in that there are no problems with exporting the master file and then uploading through Youtube.com, but that's double handling everything. Just restarted the computer etc. and still the same issue. Oh well 😟

Looking forward to hearing from you after you speak to the Apple techs!

Cheers!
Paul

Same here - it's worked perfectly for over a month, now it won't recognize my name/password. Just wasted over an hour on this because I wanted to show a new video to a client tomorrow.

@ ab52... You can still have your video up for your client tomorrow! My suggestion is to export any other method but YouTube then upload using YT's user interface. Just make sure to set correctly select all of the appropriate metadata and privacy settings.

Yes, and my main point is "why bother?" The fastest way from FCPX to YouTube (for all us mere mortals) is:

1) Completely render the storyline (project should be one of the ProRes codecs) (it's actually faster to "pre-render" then export than have FCPX do both — might have something to do with how the processes are handled/queued in the background)

2) Export Using Current Settings (codec should be one of the ProRes')

3) Use Quicktime 7 Pro to transcode to a 5Mbps H.264 (or smaller if you know what you're doing — YouTube is going to do it anyway, and your Mac will do a better job.) QT7 is usually faster than Compressor (in my experience - I might just be biased).

4) Upload to YouTube using their Upload page.

As a reminder: FCPX can render H.264 at over 50Mbps -- more than 10 times what YouTube wants to see, and adds that much (10x) to the file size (many people have a 10 or 15 minute time liimit OR 2GB whichever is greater.) There is NO WAY to change the rendering "quality" options in FCPX. YouTube has 60 hours of video uploaded every minute of every day... FCPX is cholesterol to their system -- not only do they have to ingest 10 times the data, they have to spend the time to recompress it to their limits (I actually wouldn't be surprised to find out that YouTube was flat out cancelling fcpx uploads due to their size [I think I would actually say: "Good for them!"]). The only time it makes sense to go directly from FCPX to YouTube is you have a fast fiber connection, a full partnership with YouTube and produce video guaranteed to "go viral" — in other words: they want to get what you have.

Using the steps above, QT7Pro takes very much less time to transcode ProRes exports out of FCPX to H.264 (5Mbps, AAC, Fast Start, Optimized for Streaming) than going directly to H.264 from FCPX (from which you *cannot* alter the compression options anyway, OR Compressor (in which I always seem to get into trouble with *too many* options [I have *never* gotten better results than I can get with QT7Pro]); you're uploading 1/10th the data (so 1/10th the total time it takes to actually upload); YouTube leaves your video alone (it won't recompress what it doesn't have to); your video will look just as good (if not better than if YouTube "touches" it) and you don't have to put up with the FCPX export to YouTube (or Vimeo, or any of the others for that matter) hassle.

Using FCPX, you may get to play with the video gods? But: only the video gods get to play in video heaven.

Play nice. It gets you a whole lot further with YouTube. You have to be *invited* to be a partner.

This issue occured for me today (11 Apr 2013) for the first time in around a year. I upload videos to my own YouTube account but also to a number of my client's accounts as well. None of them will work today so it is clearly an Apple/YouTube problem.

Some people are suggesting that you can simply export the rendered video and then upload directly to YouTube, which is fine and what I do if I have to. However, exporting directly from within FCPX is a feature that I use daily and when it works, it is perfect for me. So I really just would like this issue to be addressed if possible.

I have sent a feedback comment to Apple (http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html), so that may just help get this resolved.

Hope so.

Hi Mesmee,

I have exactly the same issue now. Up until now no issue uploading video to 3 different YT accounts, now none of them will work, all with the same error message. Glad to see I'm not the only one. Hope you can shed some light on this issue once you have talked to the Apple tech support.

Thanks in advance!

Of course this is annoying and frustrating, and should be resolved. But since no one has pointed it out yet, I would like to say that it is often best to simply export a master file as source from your project to Quicktime, and then use the YT uploading mechanism. This will at least provide a workaround in the present situation.