How to Convert and Upload iTunes M4V Videos to YouTube within Minutes

Have you heard that you have to convert M4V to YouTube and then upload? Do you know why we need to do this and how to convert and upload M4V to YouTube? Let's clear these questions one by one.

1.Why Need to Convert M4V to YouTube before Uploading?

M4V is a file container developed by Apple and protected with Apple's FairPlay DRM copyright policy. It means that all M4V videos that you purchased or rented from iTunes Store are encoded and you can only play on Apple devices because of the Digital Rights Management. You can neither play them on non-Apple devices nor upload them to video-sharing websites. If you want to put iTunes videos on YouTube, you need to remove their DRM at first.

2.How to Convert and Upload iTunes M4V Videos to YouTube?

M4V videos can be uploaded to YouTube only when they have been removed DRM protection and transferred to the right formats. And the quickest way to achieve this is using third-party software. You can follow my recommendation to try M4V Converter Genius, which is a professional program to convert M4V to YouTube as well as other popular video-sharing websites. Here we will show you how to share M4V videos on YouTube from two aspects:
No. 1: How to Upload iTunes DRM M4V Videos to YouTube on Windows
No. 2: How to Convert M4V to YouTube on Mac OS X

No 1. How to Upload iTunes DRM M4V Videos to YouTube on Windows

Converting and uploading M4V videos to YouTube on Windows computer is very easy. The procedure can be roughly generalized as "Add video > Choose web > Convert". As for the detailed steps, read on, please.

• Install Windows version of M4V Converter Genius on your Windows PC with iTunes and launch it. iTunes will pop out after this step, you don't need to care about it, just leave it aside.
  
  

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• On the interface of M4V Converter Genius, click Add button to import targeted M4V videos.
  
• If you only need to convert one M4V video, you just need to specify the video and choose YouTube displayed in Web share tab.
  
• If you have several M4V videos, you can turn on the Merge button at the bottom of the interface. Then choose an output folder and tap on Convert button to transfer their formats suitable to YouTube.
  
• All steps of converting M4V videos are finished. You can share them on YouTube now.
  

No. 2: How to Upload iTunes DRM M4V Videos to YouTube on Mac OS X

The steps to convert videos bought or downloaded from iTunes into YouTube on Mac OS X are similar to those in Windows. The only one difference is that you need to install Mac version of M4V Converter Genius which supports Mac OS X 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, etc. on your Mac.

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Above is only the tutorial on how to convert M4V videos to YouTube. Of course it is not the mere function of M4V Converter Genius. You can refer to the guide of M4V Converter Genius for more customized functions.