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Welu:
It's been a while since I've uploaded so I'm not best for advice. You could try converting or rendering again in MP4 and see if it uploads faster but I'm learning myself so I'm not sure which format is best for balancing size versus quality. A quick Google shows contradicting answers.

LeeC:
I just did a short 10 minute recording as an MP4 instead of an .AVI  It uploaded and is processing rather quickly.  I did some research and the MP4 compresses it without compromising the video in a way better than the other formats that are able to upload to youtube.  SO I am putting it to the test.

I also discovered that after you upload a video, it is not immediately HD and take awhile.  Basically the first time youtube processes it is to get it up on the site and make it watchable.  There is a second "silent" process in the background that translates it into an HD format.  Depending on the length and size of the video and can take awhile.

I seriously wonder if other youtubers like Markiplier or GameGrumps deal with this, or how they mitigate it.

Pilchard123:
The HD thing? I've seen some Yogscast videos that were at 480p maximum for a couple of hours, so I guess so.

You might want to look at scheduled publishing, which keeps a video private until a certain date/time. Maybe you could upload and schedule the release for a few hours later.

ReindeerFlotilla:
Pilchard is probably right. Planning ahead, preferably way ahead, is probably how you play the game.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of people out there pantsing their way to success, but having your ducks lined up long before they go public is just easier. If something goes wrong, you can see it, adjust and correct for it. Even if you're going to be in a situation where you are trying to be first with content, that situation will rare. The normal is just going to be grinding content to try to keep people coming back to your content.

Being first probably isn't nearly as good a replay value, anyway. Replay value isn't as good as style (though "what style is" is hard to pin down). Better to be the 400th video on a topic that's number one in view count than to be the first video that's 400th in view count.

Youtube's method of tracking views is, itself, part of how you go from maybe viable to maybe viral, and from maybe viral to maybe vihart. And that system has a built in pause button. Brady at Numberphile talked to a google drone directly on the subject, and there's a point where Youtube stops upping your view count to be sure it's not foul play, and then starts adding views in drabs to make sure it's a real view (the second being less about fraud and more about making sure that the content was delivered). The point being, there's no big advantage to being quick to post content. Better results, long term, come from being regular, like a good fiber diet.

LeeC:
Thanks for the advice everybody.  :-D

I have 2 youtube accounts.  1 is my personal I set up long ago when I first use youtube and use it for watching/commenting.  2 is going to be my actual youtube channel but is "under construction."  I am using my personal one to figure out how things work and once I am ready to "launch" the actual channel I will start uploading to the new one.  So I am definitely going the route of "having your ducks lined up long before they go public."  The major rough parts at this point I think is figuring out how youtube works as far as uploading and not getting failures to load or process (using MP4 format seems to be the trick, and you all's advice is very enlightening!) and figuring out how to draw so I can make title cards and a channel background (adobe illustrator and inkscape are not very intuitive...).  I've already got my avatar/symbol done.  Once those are set I plan to set up monetization and record content for at least 3 weeks worth of content before launch.

The sad thing is work(as in my day job, not the youtube channel) is so soul crushing its hard to bring myself to work on any of it.  The original launch date was going to be June/July

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