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Trouble Uploading Video From iMovie to YouTube

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I have been having issues uploading video from imovie to YouTube and I have tried everything possible without success. The video is about 120MB and a little over 5 minutes. So I have tried breaking it in half and uploading it in two parts, then I tried breaking it into just one minute intervals and uploading it that way.

Every time I try to upload it, it gets about half way done and then gets stuck and shows the number of minutes left rising in number rather than decreasing, so it will start saying 7 minutes left and that will go to 8, then 9, 10 etc, and minutes later it will be up to say 65 minutes remaining, because its not progressing.

Does anyone have any thoughts or explinations as to what is happening.

By the way I have tried other sites as well, not just YouTube and have come across the same problem.
 
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Hard to say. The upload is dependent on your upload speed. What kind of connection do you have? Dial up will take a long long long time, like 17 hours. But even the speeds with DSL or Cable modem are limiting, at least in North America.

Are you uploading directly from iMovie 08, or are you using the web interface upload?

If the half way indicated is extremely quick, then the interface is effectly lying. I notice this with WEBDAV connections from my Mac. The process claims things are loading very fast, and then you appear to hit a brick wall where the time slows to a crawl.

I suggest you try one of those 1 minute segments and just leave it alone. Time it too to get a clue of what to expect.

Note that YouTube limits you to 100MB uploads on Mac. They do have a special software app for Windows that apparently allows for upto a 1GB upload. Anyway, toy with a few of the features like playback bit rate or quality to bring the file size down just sligtly. Oh, and set the audio to mono.
 
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Xstep, I appreciate the feedback. Nope I'm using a DSL connection with reliable quick speed. I've tried both uploading it directly from imovie 08 as well as the web interace upload and have been unsucesful with both.
 
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I just uploaded a 15MB file via FTP to my private online presence and it took 3min 52sec. So on my line a 100MB file would take about 25 minutes. That was an upload speed of 59.78KB sec or about 475Kb/sec. Another 15MB file took 4min 44sec to upload to YouTube.

You could use DSLReports to check you upload capability.
 
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The same problem here!

I'm having exactly the same issue! It used to work perfectly and for the last 2 months i really can't upload videos on YouTube!
 

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