This document discusses how to upload Sony PMW-F55 and PMW-F5 XAVC videos to YouTube. It notes that these cameras record high-quality 10-bit 4:2:2 XAVC video that YouTube does not support. It recommends using Jihosoft Video Converter to convert the XAVC videos to YouTube supported formats like MP4, trimming videos over 15 minutes, and setting optimal encoding parameters like H.264 video and AAC audio when converting. The steps to upload the converted video to YouTube are also provided.

1. How to upload Sony PMW-F55/F5 XAVC video to YouTube?
Sony PMW-F55 and Sony PMW-F5 are two CineAlta cameras
which record XAVC with color depth of 10-bits and 4:2:2
chroma subsampling. The Sony PMW-F55 can record XAVC with
4K resolution at 60fps at 300 Mbit/s and 2K resolution at 120
fps at 400 Mbit/s. While the Sony PMW-F5 can record XAVC
with 2K resolution at 120 fps at 400 Mbit/s.
When trying to upload the high-definition XAVC videos
captured with your Sony cameras to YouTube, you will receive
an message “The video has failed to process, please make sure
you are uploading a supported file type.” To solve the problem,
you will need a video conversion software to convert the XAVC
video to another YouTube supported file format.
Jihosoft Video Converter for Mac is the powerful video
conversion application specially designed for converting XAVC
video. It can perfectly import both 4K and 2K XAVC video from
Sony PMW-F55 and Sony PMW-F55 and convert Sony XAVC
video to YouTube supportable MOV, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV,
MPEG-PS, FLV, 3GPP, WebM, etc formats.

2. Besides uploading YouTube supported file formats, there are
still some other issues you should take into consideration.
1. Upload videos less than 15 minutes.
If the videos you are going to upload to YouTube is less than 15
minutes, you can utilize the trim function of Jihosoft Video
Converter to shorten the length of the video to 15 minutes.
2. Upload video parameters settings.
To upload a high quality video, it is recommended to use the

3. following parameters.
Container: MP4
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
Video Codec: H.264
Frame rates: Match the original material.
Resolutions: YouTube uses a 16:9 aspect ratio players, if you
want to fit the player perfectly, you can encode your videos
with the following resolutions: 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p or
240p.
You can make it by clicking the “Setting” icon on the main
screen of “Jihosoft Video Converter” to customize your
desirable output video encoder, resolution, bitrate, frame rate,
audio encoder, sample rate, bitrate and channel parameters.
When the conversion is done, follow the steps below to upload
XAVC video to YouTube:
－ Log in to your Your YouTube account using your Google
account.
－ Click the “Upload” button at the top of the YouTube landing
page.
－ Click “Select files to upload” icon, in the pop out “File

4. Upload” window, locate and choose the converted XAVC videos
on your computer, then hit “Open” to start the uploading
process.
－ Enter the title, description, tags and category for the video
during the uploading process.