MOV to YouTube – How to Convert MOV to YouTube Compatible Format

Updated Jan 03,2019 | by Lane

Many of us like to capture MOV videos with camera, camcorders, iPhone or iPad. However, when you want to upload MOV to YouTube, you may get the message "The video has failed to process". Why we cannot upload MOV to YouTube? It is because only MOV files with H.264 and AAC audio code can be uploaded to YouTube even YouTube announces to support a lot of video formats including MOV, MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, WebM, etc. To solve the trouble of uploading MOV to YouTube, this article provides 2 easy ways to convert and upload MOV Videos to YouTube. Let’s introduce the simplest way about how to convert MOV to YouTube compatible format via the all-in-one video converter - IOTransfer first.

IOTransfer is an all-in-one iOS transfer and management tool. Apart from transferring photos, music, videos, and contacts from your iOS device to PC, IOTransfer is also a powerful video converter and downloader, which ensures the easiest way to convert videos to other audio or video formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MP3 and more. Only a few steps are needed to upload MOV to YouTube by IOTransfer.

How to Convert MOV to YouTube compatible Format with IOTransfer

Step 1： Download IOTransfer on your PC and launch it.

Step 2:   Open IOTransfer and click Videos tab at the top.

Step 3:  Click Converter at the left panel and click Files. It will open a window to ask to choose the video that you want to convert. 

Step 4:  Click the dropdown arrow on the output format button to choose the YouTube supported format such as MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MP3, etc. Then, click Convert Now to convert MOV to YouTube supported format. You can tick Automatically transfer the converted video to your iOS device if necessary or click Convert Location to choose the location you want to save the converted videos. 

It is easy to convert MOV to YouTube compatible formats by using IOTransfer, isn’t it? At the same time, you can also download YouTube videos through IOTrasnfer and convert these videos with it directly. As mentioned above, IOTransfer is a multi-functional iPhone/iPad/iPod file transfer and management tool. It provides 1-click solution to easily transfer photos, music, videos, and contacts from your iOS device to PC. What’s more, IOTransfer is a powerful video downloader and converter to help you download your favorite videos on popular online services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter and convert these videos into the formats you need.  Thus, when you need to transfer file or download/convert videos (E.g: when you need to convert MOV to YouTube compatible formats),  IOTransfer might be your preference.

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Another easy way to convert MOV to YouTube supported formats is the online converter such as www.media.io and https://clipchamp.com/.  Let’s take www.media.io as an example.

Step 1:  Go to the website media.io directly.

Step 2: You can see a little purple box under the words: Online Audio Converter & Video Converter.

Step 3: Click “+” to open a window and select the MOV video that you want to convert YouTube compatible format.

Step 4:  Click the dropdown arrow button and choose a format that YouTube supported including MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MP3, etc.

Step 5: click Convert button to start to convert MOV to YouTube.

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It seems it is quite easy to convert MOV to YouTube by these online converters, right?  However, there are many faults that you may not endure. The first big trouble should be the slow conversion speed and longtime wait that most people cannot accept. Usually, there are file limitations when convert MOV to YouTube online. (You can only convert videos within 100MB on media.io.) Besides, only popular formats are supported on these online converters and you cannot convert two MOV videos into YouTube supported formats at a same time. And you may need to register and sign in on some online video converters like https://clipchamp.com/ mentioned before. Knowing these faults, you may give up these online converters to convert MOV to YouTube. These are the reasons why this article introduces the easy yet powerful all-in-one video converter tool - IOTransfer first. 

The Bottom Line

Compared with these online converters, IOTransfer can help you convert MOV to YouTube compatible formats more easily and quickly. And you can convert more than one MOV to YouTube at a time through IOTransfer. No worry about big file size as it has no limitations. As a multi-functional iOS tool, video converter and downloader, IOTransfer cannot only transfer photos, music, videos, and contacts from your iOS device to PC, but also helps you download and convert videos in many formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, MP3, 3GP, MPG, WMV, MOV, and more. Thus, IOTransfer is really an ideal choice no matter for file transfer or video converter.

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