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I am getting extremely frustrated with this now. It takes nearly 4 hours to upload an hour video if you do the alternative was. I'm currently uploading a 10min video and that is taking a hour.
There's no way around the long(-ish) upload times for HD/UHD video other than to get a faster internet connection speed. Whether you have PD produce and upload to YT automatically or produce it and manually upload it later, the upload time for the same quality produced video would be the same.
If the automated method was able to upload to YT while it was being produced (essentially streaming the clip), then that would save time as compared to separately producing & then uploading; but I haven't tried that in many years and don't know if that's what actually happens or not.
You haven't provided any details, so it's possible that the profile you're manually producing to is different than the profile you typically used with the automatic way, and if that results in a much larger produced file size then it would certainly take longer to upload.