YouTube uploading + tabbed browsing!

If you upload videos to YouTube and you use a browser that has tabs (like Firefox or Internet Explorer 7) then here's a way to approximate the sort of "batch" uploading that you can do at still image sites like Photobucket (my photos there) and Flickr (and there).

First open as many tabs as you have videos to upload and send each tab to the "upload videos" page for your YouTube account. If you can use the same description for each video - if you are uploading several videos on the same subject for a blog or several clips of the same show or movie (which you might get in "trouble" for doing because of copyright) - then type it once and then copy and paste it into all the other tabs.

If you can use the same tags for all the videos, then type those once and then double click in the tags field on the other tabs to open the memory menu of all the tag sets you've ever typed into YouTube and just select the same set of tags for each tab.

You'll want to title each video individually, probably just before you click through to the "select file" page so you can keep track of which file goes with which title on which tab. Another way to help you keep all the files in your batch straight is to match your YouTube title to the title of the actual file that you'll be uploading.

Oh yeah, remember to select a category for your video from the category list before you click through to the next page.

Now all you have to do is select the video file that matches to each tab and click through to start uploading each one, one after the other. Leave each tab open, because the uploads will take a long time, especially since you will be uploading many at the same time.

I usually do this at night before getting in bed so I won't feel compelled to keep checking if my uploads are finished. A watched pot never boils and all that.

I doubled the number of videos on my YouTube channel in two nights when I figured out this batch upload trick. (here's my channel)