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How do I upload to YouTube from Photos for Mac?

I can't drag and drop onto YouTube, and when I export the videos out of Photos onto my desktop, it converts them from 1080 to 720, so I can't do that...

If I click on the Photos icon while searching for files to upload while in the YouTube platform, it doesn't open them, or it basically locks down the browser (chrome) to where I have to force quit.

Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Aug 19, 2015 9:58 PM

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Posted on Jun 15, 2016 10:06 AM

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You can upload into YouTube without having to export first. Just do the following:


1 - in YouTube click on the Select Files to Upload button.

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2 - in the next window scroll down to the Media button, click, on Photos and find your Video files under the Photos Library on the right:

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Jun 15, 2016 10:06 AM in response to GenUser007

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You can upload into YouTube without having to export first. Just do the following:


1 - in YouTube click on the Select Files to Upload button.

User uploaded file

2 - in the next window scroll down to the Media button, click, on Photos and find your Video files under the Photos Library on the right:

User uploaded file

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Jun 15, 2016 5:37 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Extensions are generated by third parties and sold in the App store

If there is a great need then you should write one and make money from it


And although I do not upload to YouTube often at all I believe you can upload using the media browser - in the upload window in Safari toward the botton=m of the source pane on the left under media ==> photos ==> Photos


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Nov 24, 2016 2:11 PM in response to GenUser007

I was trying to figure this out too. I know that if you have the videos on your iPhone, you can upload them right to YouTube using the YouTube app, or the YouTube Capture app (which lets you add join multiple videos into one video). But on a MacBook, the best you can do is import the video into iMovie and then export from that to YouTube. I, too, wish you could just export from Photos to YouTube. There's the option to do that to Vimeo and Facebook - So why not YouTube?

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