How to upload videos from Canon Vixia HF series to YouTube for sharing?

Upload Canon Vixia HF series video to YouTube
Most Canon Vixia HF series camcorders always capture AVCHD videos with MPEG-4/H.264 video coding, e.g. Canon Vixia HF S11, S100, HF200, HF100, etc. The shot footage recorded on an SDHC in AVCHD format can be playable on Blu-ray Disc players and HDTV sets. Sometimes, you may have other needs like playback on Macbook, upload Canon HF series M2TS to YouTube for sharing with your friends or family, or polish the recorded movies in editing programs and more.

Canon Vixia HF series: HF S10, HF S100, HF20, HF200, HF S11, HF S21, HF S20, HF S200, HF M31, HF M300, HF R11, HF R10, HF R100…

iMovie should be a wonderful medium for playback camcorder, further editing job and exporting video, when you connect your camcorder video to Mac. However, there are still some video stabilization limitations like distorted video or jittery playback, when import some models of camcorders like Canon Vixia HF series camcorders. Maybe you can try your luck to check out whether your camcorder mode can be well compatible with iMovie 11.

Don’t worry. Here is an easy-to-achieve program-Canon Vixia HF video converter takes all the hassle out of uploading Canon Vixia HF series video to YouTube.

Tip1: The video formats below are supported by YouTube:

Windows Media Video (.WMV), 3GP (Cell Phones), AVI (Windows), MOV (mac), MP4 (iPod/PSP), MPEG, FLV (Adobe Flash). The optimally acceptable video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 and the preferred resolution of 640×360 (16:9) or 480×360 (4:3).

Meanwhile, it also has video size and length limitation: No larger than 2GB and no more than 15 minutes in length.

The Canon Vixia HF video Converter can easily convert M2TS video from Canon Vixia HF camcorder to YouTube supporting video formats like MPEG-4, FLV, MOV. In addition, it acts as a practical video editor assisting you in clipping, cropping, merging video for perfect output video effect. Moreover, it enables you to import Canon M2TS video to iMovie or FCP for further editing job.

Three easily steps to achieve the conversion from Canon Vixia HF video to YouTube supporting video formats.

Tip2: If the imported video is too long, you can go to the “Clip” section to split it before doing the conversion.

Then, upload the generated video to YouTube:
1. Click the Upload link at the top of any YouTube page.
2. Click the Upload video button to browse for the video file you’d like to upload to YouTube, choose it and click open to load it.
3. As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category).
4. Click the Save changes button to save the updates you’ve made to the video file.

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