YouTube cut my video short

[Jill Lampert]

I've just uploaded a video to YouTube. The file is an hour long. YouTube has cut it down to 25 minutes. Does anyone know WHY? Or what I can do to put it right?

[TimStannard]

I'd start here, Jill: https://support.google.com/youtube/answ ... er-than-gb, Jill:

[tom hardwick]

Did that help you Jill? Have you managed to upload the 1 hr version?

[Jill Lampert]

Sorry to be slow to reply. It turned out there was something wrong with the file. I hasten to say it wasn't MY file!!! 25 minutes was fine. But then the final frame just stayed there as a still for 35 minutes with no sound. This was BEFORE uploaded to YouTube. No wonder YouTube wasn't happy with it.

[Michael Slowe]

Jill, much better to put stuff on Vimeo.

[TimStannard]

Jill, much better to put stuff on Vimeo.

Unless you want people to come across it when searching

In the same way VHS won against the technically superior Betamax, YouTube beat Vimeo in popularity and therefore liklihood of your film being seen. I'm not sure the technical agruments hold water nowadays either.

However, I read (in PC Pro magazine of all places) that YuTube is considering changing it's model from the current 5sec then skippable adverts to 30 seconds of unskippable ads. You'd really have to want to see a film to sit throught that in this day and age. This could see a massive moveaway from the platform.

(PS To be honest, Vimeo might have struggled with an erroneous file as well).