Tricks for Uploading H.265 Clips to YouTube

YouTube won't load your H.265 files? Check this page to learn the quick workaround to upload and share H.265 on YouTube with ease.

Usually I can upload my videos in FLV, MP4 to YouTube effortlessly. However, when I try to upload my MP4 files in H.265 to YouTube, YouTube refused that. Any fix about that? Can YouTube load H.265 files? Searching high and low, some ideas hit me.

Unfortunately YouTube does not support the uploading of videos using the h265 Codec and they have no plans to support it... They have their own alternative called VP9. To upload H.265 files to YouTube, you'll need to convert H.265 video to H.264 first before uploading it to YouTube as it won't accept and process h.265 videos.

First download and install Brorsoft Video Converter, a professional video app that can encode and decode H.265/HEVC codec.

With it, you can transcode H.265 into the format that YouTube can recognize while maintaining the quality. The program also comes with all regular video editing tools like Trim, Crop, Effect, Subtitle, Watermark for basic video editing tasks. What's more, this H.265 encoder is very easy to use. Any person can handle it without any skills needed. For decoding H.265 videos to YouTube on Mac OS X(macOS Sierra), Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac is right for you. Now just download the program and check out the steps below.

How to Convert and Upload H.265 to YouTube

Step 1: Load H.265 video clips

After a quick installation, launch the H.265 decoder program and the click Add Video button to load your H.265 files or you can directly drag and drop the files to the program. This software supports batch conversion, so you are allowed to add multiple files to convert at a time.



Step 2: Choose YouTube preferred format

Click Format bar and choose H.264 High Profile Video(*.mp4), H.264 Main Profile Video(*.mp4), or H.264 Baseline Profile Video(*.mp4) from "Common Video" as the target format.



Step 3: Advanced encoding settings

You can press the Settings button to adjust the video size, bitrate, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc to optimize the quality. For uploading 4K to YouTube, the highest video resolution is 3840*2160. And the common frame rates for YouTube include: 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60 frames per second.



Step 4: Start H.265/HEVC decoding

After all necessary setting, click Convert to start the H.265 to YouTube conversion. When the conversion completes, you can click Open button button to get the new file for YouTube sharing without hassle.

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