What is the Download / Upload Video Format of YouTube?

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What is the Download / Upload Video Format of YouTube?

25 April 2019 Jennifer Thatcher Technology Manager of Test Dept.

Summary
YouTube, the American video website used by 1 billion users, support FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG, 3GP, WMV and SWF video formats. Yet YouTube videos cannot be saved in the local but Renee Video Editor Pro can help you save the YouTube videos as MP4.

Content

Part 1. What is YouTube?

Part 2. What is the Upload Video Format of YouTube?

Part 3. How to Upload Video to YouTube?

Part 4. What is the Download Format of YouTube?

Part 1. What is YouTube?

YouTube, the American video website, was purchased by Google in 2006. On YouTube, we can view movie edited clips, TV shows, MVs, VLOG and original videos.

Nowadays, YouTube is the top video website but also the second hottest website in the world. In addition to the entertainment market, it is also catchy in the community platform where it successfully encourages online creation.

The statistics shows that over 1 billion people are using YouTube. Until February 2017, the accumulative video length of video uploaded to YouTube has been over 400 hours per minute, up to 1 billion hour views per day.

What is the Upload Format of YouTube?

Sorenson Spark and HTML5 specialize in video encoding for YouTube. It can compress and convert the videos uploaded by users. Videos in FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG, 3GP, WMV and SWF formats are supported to upload to and share on YouTube.

In 2016, YouTube allowed that videos can be at most 128GB in size, not longer than 12 hours, but this rule is applicable to those who only passed the Google account verification. Otherwise, users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration.

How to Upload Video to YouTube?

Though YouTube accepts videos that are uploaded in most container formats, MP4 is always the best one because of the wide applicability. It is suggested you convert your video to MP4 when you want to upload to YouTube.

If the video is over the maximum in size on YouTube, you can convert to other smaller formats, such as AVI, 3GP or FLV.

1. Open Renee Video Editor Pro, and then click [Video Toolbox].

click video toolbox in renee video editor pro

2. Click [Add Files] to select the target video.

3. In [Output Formats], select the target format match with YouTube. We select MP4 in this case.

4. Click [Start] to begin conversion.

5. During this process, if you want to modify the output settings, you can click [Stop] to reset.

6. When the file is successfully output, you can open the file and check the property. We can see, the FLV has been converted to MP4.

7. Then, you can log in your YouTube account. Click the “video camera” button to upload the target video or video.

click the button to add video on youtube

8. Click [Select files to upload].

select video files in mp4 format to upload on yooutube

9. Write a video description in the box, and then click [Publish] at the top-right.

write description in youtube video and click to publish

10. Succeed to upload.

successfully upload youtube video in mp4 format

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What is the Download Format of YouTube?

In fact, YouTube video cannot be directly saved in the local. We can get the YouTube videos in MP4 format through some methods.

How to Download YouTube Video?

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