There’s no doubt that the PlayStation 4’s share button has significantly changed the manner in which we communicate our gaming experiences with friends and family, but the console’s inability to upload gameplay clips to sites such as YouTube is a bit of an oversight. Fortunately, there is a workaround if you’re willing to leap through a few fairly simplistic hoops.
1. Find a clip worth sharing
Every share button story begins with a clip worth uploading, so simply play your games until you encounter something that you want to capture. This may be a killstreak, a glitch, or a really cool cut-scene. When you think that you’ve encountered the perfect moment, push the share button and follow the steps.
2. Upload to Facebook
In order to publish the clip to YouTube later, you’ll need to upload the video to Facebook first. If you haven’t linked your PS4 to Facebook, follow these steps to do that. Once you’re done, trim your video and select upload. You’ll be able to return to your game while the console deals with this in the background.
3. Find your video’s URL
Once your video’s uploaded, visit your Facebook profile on a computer or laptop. You should be able to find the clip on your profile’s timeline. Directly beneath your username, you should see a hyperlink outlining when the media was uploaded. Click on this to bring up the video’s own page. Beneath the movie player, to right hand side of any comments, you should see a list of options. Click the one labelled ‘Get Link’. This will bring up a URL, which you must add to your clipboard.
4. Download your clip
Visit SaveFrom.net on your computer and paste the URL that you just copied from Facebook into the input box. Click the ‘Download’ button and you should see a preview of your video. You can opt to download in HD (high definition) or SD (standard definition). Note that the latter will result in a smaller file, but the quality will be significantly reduced. Right click on your preferred option and select ‘Save As’. Select a directory on your computer, and begin to download the clip.
5. Upload to YouTube
Once the file has downloaded to your computer, you can then upload it to YouTube. Simply visit the video sharing website with your web browser, and select the ‘Upload’ button. Follow the steps, ensuring to select the correct file to re-upload. It will take a few moments to upload the file depending on your connection speed, but once you’ve completed the transfer, your video will be available for the world to see.
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Too bad Facebook is the only way to upload video. Not everyone with a PS4 wants to be on FB. I think it's stupid to force us to use that site to access content previously unaffiliated with a made-for-college social networking site.
@charlesnarles I agree. I think they'll add in native YouTube uploads eventually. For now, though, this is the best way.
Before YouTube I'd prefer it if they incorporate sharing onto PSN profile, so your friends can view the clip on their PS4
Not even gonna bother. Good to know it can be done, but I have no pressing need to upload footage that nobody cares about anyways. If I was running a Youtube channel it might be different.
I'm un-linking my Facebook account next time I turn on the console. It irks me to no end that my gaming console is linked to Facebook. I thought I had to when I was setting up the console, but now that I know that's not the case, I'm breaking any and all ties between the two.
Facebook sucks. A lot. But this is a nice way of getting your videoclips. I don't run any channel or whatever, but I like to keep "epic moments" and "funny mishappenings" to watch with my friends at a later date (just recently we watched our fraps-recorded footage of fooling around in battlefield 1942 back in the day!)
I made dummy facebook account to upload videos =).
I don't use Facebook and never will. It is a pain to open an account just to make full use of PS4.
I figured this was obvious to any one who wanted to post there game play that badly! =P
It would be cool to have multiple outlets for shared videos. Also I'd like to be able to share directly to individuals on my friends list.
It would be cool to have multiple outlets for shared videos. Also I'd like to be able to share directly to individuals on my friends list.
It would be cool to have multiple outlets for shared videos. Also I'd like to be able to share directly to individuals on my friends list.
It would be cool to have multiple outlets for shared videos. Also I'd like to be able to share directly to individuals on my friends list.
It would be cool to have multiple outlets for shared videos. Also I'd like to be able to share directly to individuals on my friends list.
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