Simple answer: You don't!

To allow videos longer than 15 minutes, you apply through the YouTube website itself. I started out being only allowed clips up to 15 minutes then I saw the provision to allow longer clips and now I'm posting clips of 40 or more minutes in length.

Hi Eric -

Neil - I'm pretty sure Eric is referring to videos uploaded through PDR by going to Produce > Online > YouTube. Uploading directly to your channel doesn't have the same restrictions.

Eric - your observation is correct. I just changed the registry entries posted by Adrian here, and was still greeted with the alert in the attached screenshot. I changed mine to:

YouTubeSizeLimit >REG_DWORD decimal value 4096
YouTubeTimeLimit >REG_DWORD decimal value 30

Same thing applies to PDR14 too, but I haven't checked earlier versions.

Perhaps there's some other entry that requires changing, but it's not for a non-tech member like me to offer advice on that

Alternatively, avoid the PDR uploader & do it directly to your channel (which doesn't allow you to share on DirectorZone).

Cheers - Tony
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Quote Hi Eric - Neil - I'm pretty sure Eric is referring to videos uploaded through PDR by going to Produce > Online > YouTube. Uploading directly to your channel doesn't have the same restrictions.

******************************************************************************************************* Hi, Tony! My answer to that is I guess I took the safest option. I don't upload directly from PD14. I produce my videos to a folder which I've labelled "Pending Upload To YouTube" on my internal hard-drive, once uploaded, the video is then moved to a folder on an external hard-drive labelled "Uploaded To YouTube". Neil.

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Quote Hi Eric -

Neil - I'm pretty sure Eric is referring to videos uploaded through PDR by going to Produce > Online > YouTube. Uploading directly to your channel doesn't have the same restrictions.

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Hi, Tony!

My answer to that is I guess I took the safest option. I don't upload directly from PD14. I produce my videos to a folder which I've labelled "Pending Upload To YouTube" on my internal hard-drive, once uploaded, the video is then moved to a folder on an external hard-drive labelled "Uploaded To YouTube".

Neil.

Tony, your remark: "Alternatively, avoid the PDR uploader & do it directly to your channel (which doesn't allow you to share on DirectorZone)" can be countered, just post a link to the video in your answer. Thus(this is a link to one I posted a few days ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zpaJ4C_eM

Have a look and see what you think. Running time is a bit over 40 minutes.

Hi Neil -

"Countered"? No - that's exactly what I was suggesting... produce the video (as you did), sign into your channel (as you did) and upload your video (as you did)... without going near PDR's uploader (as you also did).

I was saying "Do it the way Neil did it".

The only disadvantage to that is that the video can only be shared on DirectorZone if it's uploaded via PDR. Ah! I get it. You're referring to the CyberLink Community Forum as "DirectorZone". No - they're both owned and administered by CyberLink, but have completely separate functions.

Here's DirectorZone - http://directorzone.cyberlink.com/

Here's the Forum - http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/forums/list.page

Cheers - Tony
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Hi, Tony!

By "Countered" I meant that there was a way to share videos via Director Zone Forum, even if not directly so. Just post a link to the video, as I did. So even though the video window doesn't come up in these panels, clicking on the link still gives access to the video, as per my earlier reply. The video, by the way, was titled "Riding Home From Sydney".

Neil -

I'll send a PM, rather than clutter up the thread with unrelated nonsense.

Cheers - Tony
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Hi Tony.

Saw your answer, replied in same manner.

Neil.

Eric,

Back to original post. As I said, it's much better to avoid going through Power Director(any version) to have your time limit extended beyond the 15-minute initial limits. Going through YouTube itself(creator studio), select Channel - Status & Features, where it says Longer Videos, click and follow any prompts. You'll be asked to give a phone contact number, they will ring you with a number code(given only once so you'll need to pay attention). Type that number into a space provided and you're done. From that point on you can upload anything from 20 seconds to 2 hours, though I wouldn't go overboard with video lengths just yet. That's all there is to it.

Neil.