Why does my video get stuck at 0% when I try to upload it to YouTube?
First things first, cancel the upload and try this technique first.
What a great question. Hi there, Rebecca and Raymond!
There could be many reasons why the video you try to upload gets stuck at 0% on YouTube.
The main reason I can think of is that it might be quite large and luckily there is a way to solve that.
I have a habit whereby I reduce the weight of each video I make, so it’s a lighter weight before uploading to YouTube.
The software I love and use is free and is called Handbrake.
- Pop over to their website at handbrake.fr – It’s a French website but written in English.
- Download the software to your computer
- install the software and now open it.
- When you’re ready, a dialogue box should open where you can just select the video file.
- When I open up Handbrake, I select the video that I want by clicking on open source (if I didn’t already have a dialog box).
Then down the bottom here where it says Save As I always go to the end of the file name and put a dash and I put L Q (for lower quality) which lets me know it’s a less weighty version.
Once I’ve done that I can click on Browse and select where I want it to go, which I will do now.
We’ll put it into the right folder or choose and then back on Handbrake, I click on the Start button.
The video has almost finished converting, only a couple of seconds to go.
Okay, it’s done. So let’s pop back over to the Desktop, and here you can see the main file that I started with:
- the video was 451.8 megabyte
- and the new version that I’ve got, with L Q at the end, it’s down to 68.8 megabytes. Wow! Fantastic!
Now I have a lighter version of my video, I can go ahead and upload it to YouTube.
I hope this helps – please do keep me posted and please do ask me questions if you need to. I’d love to hear from you.
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