How to upload Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube?

What is the easiest way to upload my Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube? After you made a bunch of videos with windows movie maker, and upload to youtube is saying "Failed". How can we do?

But sometimes you may found that it takes a long time to upload the video we made from Windows Movie Maker to YouTube. Because YouTube video is FLV video, windows movie maker file is WMV video, YouTube will convert the WMV video to FLV video at first on its server, this process will take long time to finish. So convert your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube FLV format on your computer before uploading would be much faster and no any quality loss.

Step 1. Save Windows Movie Maker video as WMV video

1.Once you finished editing video with windows movie maker, Click the menu “File” -> “Save Movie File”, then save it to “My computer”, set the video named and location, it will help you save the file as WMV video.

Note: If your video size is small and totally ok with the uploading time, you can directly go to STEP 3 to upload your WMV video to YouTube without any changing.

You should also make sure that the video you will upload is less than 10 minutes and smaller than 1GB in size which is accepted by YouTube.

Step 2. Convert WMV video to FLV format for easier uploading to YouTube

1. Download this WMV FLV Video Converter, and follow the instructions:
   
2. Load WMV movies you just saved from Windows Movie Maker.
   Run the program on you computer. Select the .wmv files you want to convert, simply by hitting on "Add Video" button on the left menu. And batch mode is supported.
   
3. Output setting:
   Choose YouTube FLV format as the output format from Profile field. Then select a location on your hard drive for saving the output video file.
   
4. Edit video file
   This Video Converter has multifunctional editing feature. You can clip, crop, set effect to get the ideal video for uploading to YouTube.
   You can apply effects such as Brightness, Contrast and Saturation as you desired then click the OK button. Switch to the Crop area next to the Effect button, you could set up the video file as different aspect ratio as 16:9, 4:3 or original.
   
5. Advanced video settings are supported, just hit Settings button on the bottom right part of the program, you will be able to tweak various video, audio parameters in the opened up window shows as below
   

Here get the full version of this Video Converter:

Step 3. Upload the Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube:

Go to YouTube first. Then login your account or register a new one. After the login, clik "Upload". Then fill the information of your video. Fill in more detail information for other people to find it easier. Finally click the yellow "Upload" buttom to start uploading the video to YouTube.

After the video is published, you can browse the video or share it with your friends with the video URL provided at random.

Then proceed buring WMV to DVD by clicking "Next" button. Insert a blank DVD into your computer optical disc drive. Click the Start Burning! button to begin burning progress. Your special edited WMV movie will begin burning to DVD or Blu-ray disc.

Editing WMV movies for uploading to YouTube for Apple Mac users could be as simple as on W indows, just turn into this MAC WMV EDITING AND SHARING ON YOUTUBE!