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How to Convert and Upload MP4 to YouTube for Share with the World

Why convert MP4 to YouTube? You may be a little puzzled since YouTube announced it supports MOV, MPEG4, AVI, WMV, MPEGPS, FLV, 3GPP and WebM. Well, if your MP4 files are not accepted by YouTube, then it's probable because of the video codec. It's suggested that you convert MP4 to YouTube supported MPEG4 files so as to share your video files from your personal computer to the world via YouTube.

To complete the conversion, a video converter is needed. Here Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate is highly recommended as the best MP4 video converter. With it, you can fast change MP4 format to be compatible with YouTube with high output video quality. For Mac users, Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac will do a great job in converting MP4 video clips for YouTube with optimized settings. Now download the program and check out how to convert and upload MP4 files to YouTube.

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How to convert MP4 for sharing on YouTube

Here we takes converting MP4 video in Windows to show you how easy the whole conversion process is. The way to complete your task on Mac (Mountain Lion) is the same. Just download the right version and follow the intuitive interface to change MP4 format to YouTube supported MP4.

1Import your MP4 video to the program

Download this video converter and follow the wizard to install and launch it. Then you can add the MP4 files you want to convert in the following two ways: 1> Click Add Files to import files from your computer's hard drive. 2> Drag your target video files to the main interface to load them for conversion.

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2Edit your video

Next, click the Edit button beside each video clip to edit your videos. Video editing functions like Trim, Crop, Rotate, Add Watermarks, Insert Subtitles, Apply Video Effects, etc. are provided. Note that YouTube generally won't support videos that are longer than 15 minutes. So you should use the Trim function to get the part you want and make sure it doesn't exceed the limit.

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3Choose YouTube as the output video format and start conversion

Now you need to select an output format. Click Output Format on the right and choose YouTube from Format > Web as the output video format. Then click the big Convert button to start converting your videos to YouTube highly compatible files.

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When the video conversion completes, click Open Folder to locate the converted video files. After that, sign in your YouTube account and click Upload to upload these videos to YouTube for sharing with the world.

Below is the video tutorial about how to convert MP4 videos to YouTube supported format:

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