{"id":62229,"date":"2014-03-12T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T11:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=62229"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:49:29","slug":"how-to-upload-gameplay-videos-to-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-upload-gameplay-videos-to-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"How to upload gameplay videos to YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve recorded or <a title=\"Quickly edit videos using Free Video Dub\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/quickly-edit-videos-using-free-video-dub\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">edited gameplay videos<\/a> and want to share them, there&#8217;s no easier way to do it than posting it on YouTube. Here, we&#8217;ll give you a few tips so that you know what to keep in mind to appeal to viewers when uploading videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparation: setting up your YouTube account and channel<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"height: 177px;width: 150px\" title=\"YouTube Channel Settings\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/12\/yt_upload_02.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Channel Settings\" width=\"164\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To make your YouTube video public, you have to <strong>set up a YouTube account<\/strong> by creating a Google account (you&#8217;ll already have an account if you use Gmail). Once you&#8217;ve done this, access YouTube and log in with your Google Account, if it doesn&#8217;t do so automatically. Click on the <em>cog<\/em> icon in the top right corner of the screen and select <em>YouTube settings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You should now be on the overview page of your YouTube profile. Click on <em>Create a Channel. <\/em>Make sure to create a channel with a relevant name so that your videos will be well-organized in YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the exciting part: uploading your videos.<\/p>\n<h3>Uploading videos<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">To upload a video, click <em>Upload<\/em> and select your file. Alternatively, drag the file to the upload button in your browser.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"height: 183px;width: 150px\" title=\"Select files to upload\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/12\/yt_upload_03.jpg\" alt=\"Select files to upload\" width=\"188\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the video&#8217;s uploading, you can fill in the <em>title<\/em>, <em>description<\/em> and <em>tags<\/em>, select your\u00a0<strong>privacy settings,<\/strong> and choose an appropriate <strong>category<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The title and description fields will help attract viewers to your video. Our video editor <a title=\"Antoni Noguera on Softonic\" href=\"http:\/\/articulos.softonic.com\/editor\/antoni-noguera\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toni<\/a> has some important tips about this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a <strong>title<\/strong> that&#8217;s attractive, but accurate. Don&#8217;t lie, and don&#8217;t just think about search engines or keywords that will get you\u00a0a good ranking in YouTube.<\/li>\n<li>Give the video a good <strong>description<\/strong> which is search engine friendly. The field should coherently answer the question of why the video is useful.<\/li>\n<li>Adds links to your website in the description, if available. Also link sources that you&#8217;ve used in the video. This particularly applies to music. Your viewers will ask you about songs, and its good to answer in advance and express yourself as briefly as possible in the description.<\/li>\n<li>Choose a good <strong>thumbnail<\/strong>. After uploading, YouTube suggests three different snapshots from the video. Make sure you don&#8217;t use any\u00a0ambiguous images, otherwise you might\u00a0mislead the user and end up with something that has nothing to do with your video. Good and bad thumbnails have\u00a0an impact on your long-term positioning in YouTube.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"height: 119px;width: 462px\" title=\"Choose accurate thumbnails\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/12\/yt_upload_05.jpg\" alt=\"Choose accurate thumbnails\" width=\"462\" height=\"119\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other things to consider are<strong> tags<\/strong> and <strong>categories,<\/strong> which help make your video accessible to the right audience. <em>Entertainment<\/em>, for example, is more appropriate than <em>Travel<\/em> <em>and Events <\/em>for gameplay videos. Tags are short keywords that help make it easier to search for videos. Here, the name of the video game and the subject of your video are good\u00a0options.<\/p>\n<h3>Post-processing on YouTube<\/h3>\n<p>At this point, you&#8217;re pretty much done, but there are a few tricks that you can use to engage even more users. After videos have been made public, YouTube offers options to enhance videos\u00a0with effects. <strong>Annotations<\/strong> are particularly effective.<\/p>\n<p>In YouTube, open the video manager (accessible <a title=\"YouTube video manager\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/my_videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here)<\/a>. The video manager will give you an overview of all uploaded videos. Click on the arrow pointing down next to <em>Edit<\/em>, and select <em>Annotations<\/em>.\u00a0 The window that appears is similar to that of a simple editing program. Move the marker on the timeline to the desired position and click <em>Add annotation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"height: 357px;width: 568px\" title=\"Add annotations to your videos\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/12\/yt_upload_04.jpg\" alt=\"Add annotations to your videos\" width=\"568\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can lay text over the video and add links to it, a practical way to link to more of your videos once your archive has grown. Annotations are also a good way of <strong>referring users to channels<\/strong> with similar content or themes.<\/p>\n<p>A word of\u00a0warning: annotations are a great way of keeping users on your own channel for longer, but too many boxes can be annoying and may cause irritated viewers to leave the page.<\/p>\n<h3>Quality is key<\/h3>\n<p>Nobody wants to see pixilated videos that are poor quality and have lots of\u00a0background noise, so don&#8217;t upload badly made videos. During recording, make sure you use HD resolution (1280 x 720 pixels or 1920 x 1080 pixels) and ensure that you don&#8217;t lose any of the quality\u00a0during post-processing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Quickly edit videos using Free Video Dub\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/quickly-edit-videos-using-free-video-dub\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here<\/a>, we explain how to edit videos using <a title=\"Download Free Video Dub\" href=\"http:\/\/free-video-dub.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Video Dub<\/a> without losing\u00a0quality, and with <a title=\"FileLab Video Editor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filelab.com\/video-editor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FileLab Video Editor<\/a>, a free web app, you can export your video with 1280 x 720 pixels. If you do need to render the video again, choose the highly efficient Codec <strong>H.264<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Customizing your channel<\/h3>\n<p>If you gradually fill your channel with videos, you should also customize it a bit as well. You can give your channel a personal touch by adding your own background image, a matching channel description, and links to your social network. This helps your viewers better recognize your brand.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch out for legal pitfalls<\/h3>\n<p>YouTube is especially handy for sharing gameplay videos: uploading is simple, there are millions of game fans already using it to search for gameplay videos, and videos can easily be shared with anyone. One thing you should note when uploading gameplay videos, however, is that\u00a0you will be working with copyrighted material. Make sure that you credit all of your videos back to the original game source.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make sure to check out our article on <a title=\"Quickly edit videos using Free Video Dub\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/quickly-edit-videos-using-free-video-dub\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to edit gameplay videos<\/a> using Free Video Dub. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve recorded or edited gameplay videos and want to share them, there&#8217;s no easier way to do it than posting it on YouTube. Here, we&#8217;ll give you a few tips so that you know what to keep in mind to appeal to viewers when uploading videos on YouTube. 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