4K Video Odyssey: How I thought I can easily upload and watch 4K Videoon youtube, boy was I wrong.

The Goal: Get the raw video as fast as possible onto youtube in 4K, simple, right?

The Gear: iPhone 6S Plus, iMac OS X 10.11.4, Samsung 65" 4K with Youtube app. 

The Geek: prehistoric experience, top notch can do everything, damn it's my job. 

Draft: Due to lack of time and because it took me more than 5 minutes, to be continued. 

Preliminary Conclusion:  Use iMovie - on iPhone or Mac OS X and upload to YouTube in 4K!   

Currently the only method to guarantee that you will get 4K Video on Youtube is to use iMovie on iPhone or Mac OS X. All my other attemps failed.   

 Warning: On the iPad in Youtube I only get a display of up to 1440p for my videos even though they are available at 4K! Again no idea how to easily verify what quality is available.   

Full Story:   

Finally you got a camera that can shoot video in 4K (not 60 Frames per second, but 4K isn't it?). You are already exited that you as the PRO get it done with the best gear in 5 minutes top. Deal. Let's do it.

Live is good.

 

Some background as to why you might ever want to do the same: Now after some time you think that either you want to see that great video in its full glory, or you want to convice the guest that the video you shot is absolutely marvelous and it's in 4K, right. 

 

The video is as crapy as the other videos 20 years ago, the technique of the operator has not improved and all the technical jumbo mumbo did not really help. Except that previously your and other viewers eyes were able to decide that it's crap and noisy and that was it and today everyone gets blurry vision and dizzyness ;)

 

Ok, so let's start. 

 

Video is 4K, 28seconds, 178.9 MB

 

 

Attempt:

 

1) iPhone - Photos - Share

 

Select Video, tap Share

 

first it takes about 2 minutes to process, then you can define parameters but only sd (2.1MB)or hd (16.1), that does not sound like 4k 

 

FAILED

 

) iPhone - youtube - upload

 

Settings say max upload quality 1080p.

Funny how it does not show all my videos of iphoto?

 

FAILED

 

1) iMac Photo Library - Share - FAILED

 

select video, tap Share ..... What no youtube??? FAILED

 

2) iMac Photo Library - Export - 1st option

 

select video, menu edit, export, choose 4K, folder Desktop, go ...............

........wait.......wait longer .............. While waiting go to attempt 3 as it is so long to wait only to get the video onto the desktop ;(

 

Coming back after Attempt 3 failed.

 

Use safari, goto youtube.com and upload video. (No option found that says anything about the resolution)

 

On TV select the video and 

 

 

3) iMac iMovie - 

 

Start iMovie, find a way to somehow share directly. FAILED.

Must start a project, find video ..... Wait ...... The icloud photo library takes time to show up, even slower than before, where it was just in iPhoto.

 

By this time Attempt 2 is still exporting!!   Select Video, click plus then select Share, Youtube.  Upload is quite fast, done. Switch on TV, Smart Hub, Select youtube and .. Oh I did not yet connect the youtube app to my account .... D .. Grab phone enter the thing and ok, it connects to my account. Start playing video -> what quality is this???? Definitely not 4K. No idea what resolution. Youtube on Samsung does not have an option to change quality? FAILED, for now, might take a look later again. We are already at 7 minutes in, not 5 as originally planned. go back to attempt 2