Publishing

On the export screen, choose Connect a YouTube channel. Google asks you to sign in and to confirm what Filmgenic may do. We ask for two permissions and no others: upload a video, and read the channel back so we can name it here and tell you what happened to the film afterwards. We never ask for the right to edit or delete anything already on your channel.

• The connection is yours, not the project's. It belongs to the account that authorised it. Collaborators on a film do not inherit your channel.
• Disconnecting is immediate and complete. It revokes the permission with Google, removes the stored credential, and cancels anything still queued for that channel rather than leaving it to fail later.
• If Google stops accepting the connection — you changed your password, or removed Filmgenic from your Google account — the channel is marked needs reconnecting and nothing is retried behind your back.

Pick the deliverable, give it a title and description, and choose who can see it. Private means only the channel owner can watch it; unlisted means anyone with the link; public means it appears on the channel. Whatever you choose is what we send — we never publish more widely than you asked.

A cut that has not passed review does not go public by accident. Every deliverable carries the label its measured review earned. Sending one that did not pass to a public audience takes an explicit confirmation; unlisted and private need none, because that is how you show work in progress.

Pressing Publish twice does not publish twice. A publication is identified by where it is going, which file, and the exact title and description — so a double-click, a retried request or a resumed browser is the same single post.

The upload runs on our side, not in your browser: you can close the tab. If the upload is interrupted, it resumes from the byte YouTube already has rather than starting again — and never by uploading the film a second time.

"Sent" is not the same as "live". YouTube processes a film after it arrives, and can reject it afterwards — a copyright claim, a policy decision. We keep asking until the answer settles, so the status here says still processing, live on the channel, or the provider's own reason for refusing it. A publication that is still queued can be called back; once it is on its way to the channel it can only be dealt with on the channel itself.