Post your video to YouTube
Connect your YouTube channel, post or schedule a video, post new series episodes by themselves, or upload the file yourself.
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You can post a finished video to YouTube from LongStories, or download the file and upload it yourself. Posting from LongStories needs an active paid plan. Without one, the YouTube tab says Your current plan does not include YouTube posting.
Connect your YouTube channel
- Open My Videos and select the YouTube tab.
- Select Connect YouTube.
- Sign in with the Google account that owns your channel.
- You come back to the YouTube tab. It says YouTube connected. Choose a video to post or schedule.
If the page says that the Google account has no YouTube channel, pick the account that owns your channel, or create a channel on YouTube first.
You can connect more than one channel. Select Your channels in the YouTube tab to see them. Disconnect removes a channel.
A channel in the LongStories sidebar is a page on LongStories. It is not your YouTube channel.
Post or schedule a video
- In My Videos, select the button with three dots on a finished video, then Post to YouTube. Or select Post or schedule next to the video in the YouTube tab.
- Choose the YouTube Channel.
- Type the Title and the Description. Write with AI fills in that field for you. Tags are under Tags and AI writing help (optional).
- Answer Is this video made for kids?
- Under When to post, choose one:
- Upload now: choose Private, Unlisted, or Public under Privacy, then select Upload to YouTube. Keep the window open while the video uploads.
- Schedule for later: choose a date and time at least 15 minutes from now, then select Save schedule. LongStories uploads the video as public at that time.
- After an upload, select YouTube Studio to check the video on YouTube.
- LongStories uploads the last rendered version. After changes in the editor, render the video again first. See Download and export your video.
- To stop a scheduled post, select Cancel schedule in the YouTube tab.
- A video that is uploaded cannot be uploaded again from LongStories.
- If you cancel your subscription, scheduled posting stops when your paid period ends. Videos already posted stay on YouTube.
Post new series episodes by themselves
A planned series makes its episodes for you, for example One a week. It can also post each new episode to YouTube.
- Open Series, select Start a series, and pick a universe. Plan the episodes and choose When? they are made.
- On the series page, under Post new episodes to YouTube, select Choose a channel.
- Choose the channel and the Privacy, answer Is this video made for kids?, and select Turn on.
- Each new episode goes to your channel 2 hours after it finishes, with a title and description written by AI. Until then, you can cancel the post in the YouTube tab.
- Episodes that you make yourself with Next episode are not posted by themselves. Post them from My Videos.
- Turn off stops the posting and cancels the posts that wait.
- A plan holds at most 10 episodes. When all planned episodes are made, the series stops.
Upload the file yourself
- In My Videos, select the button with three dots on the video, then Download Video.
- Upload that file to your channel on YouTube.
YouTube links are not an input
LongStories does not make a video from a YouTube link. From audio and Music Video take a file from your device: mp3, wav, m4a, or ogg. On Ideas, a pasted YouTube link gives you an idea from the title and the picture of that video, not from the video itself.