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Updated 1 November 2026 · Markdown

Publishing to YouTube

A finished film can be published straight to the person's own YouTube channel, now or on a day you pick, with a title, a description, tags and a thumbnail. The title, description and tags are written for you from the film, in your channel's voice, and four thumbnails are made from the film's own pictures and type to pick from. Publishing uses no credits.

  • Publish is the same everywhere. The film's own page, an episode's card in its project, a project's Schedule and a film's page in the Studio all open the same dialog, in place: none of them sends you to another page first.
  • Two choices come first: Publish now, or Schedule. The button at the foot of the dialog says which one it will do, and a line beside it says when and where the video goes public.
  • A project's Schedule tab shows the whole calendar of its channel, a month at a time (below).
  • Every film has a page in the Studio for the person who makes it: where the video stands on YouTube, its day, who can watch, its title and description, and its views (A film's page in the Studio).

Access is limited for now.

  • Publishing is being opened in stages. Until an account has it, the pricing page shows "Coming soon" and the film page has no Publish button.
  • Until Google finishes verifying KitCut:
    • at most 100 accounts can connect a channel;
    • Google shows a warning that the app is not verified yet;
    • YouTube keeps uploaded videos private until its API audit passes. The page then says YouTube is keeping the video private for now, and the video shows as Private.
The Publish to YouTube dialog: on the left the channel, then When with two choices, Publish now (circled as 1) and Schedule, and Who can watch it; on the right How it looks on YouTube, with the title and description written from the film and four thumbnails; at the foot the line "Goes public right away on Sam's Sketchbook" and the button Publish now (circled as 2).
The publish dialog: where, when, and how it looks on YouTube. The button says what it will do.

Connecting a channel

  • On the account page, under YouTube, choose Connect YouTube and pick the channel in Google's window.
  • Each connection is one channel. Add more with Connect another channel, or with + Add another channel in the publish dialog.
  • KitCut asks Google for four permissions:
    • uploading videos;
    • reading the channel: its name and picture, where its videos stand and how often they were watched, and its latest videos' titles, descriptions and tags, which the suggested title and description learn the channel's voice from;
    • reading the channel's YouTube Analytics: its videos' views, watch time, average view duration and subscribers gained, day by day, for the Views page; and, when you ask an assistant (get_youtube_views), the channel's numbers, where its views came from and the search terms that brought them, read then and never kept;
    • managing its videos, which KitCut uses only when you ask, and only for a video you published from KitCut or linked to a film: making it public, unlisted or private; giving it a day, moving it to another day or taking it off the schedule (Changing a scheduled video); changing its title, description and tags (A film's page); and adding a video you publish to one of your playlists (Playlists). KitCut never deletes a video or comments on one.
  • The first two are needed to publish. The last two can be left unticked: publishing still works; without Analytics the Views page shows YouTube's running totals only, and without the fourth, a video is changed, and put in a playlist, in YouTube Studio once it is up. Where a change needs it, KitCut says so before you pick anything, with Connect again.
  • Channels connected before 2026-09-30 have not given the last two permissions yet. The account page and the Views page show Connect again beside them, saying what it adds; connecting the same channel again adds them and changes nothing else.
  • Disconnecting removes the channel from KitCut, withdraws its permission at Google and deletes everything KitCut read from YouTube with it: its videos' numbers and their status history. Its episodes' badges then say On YouTube until the channel is connected again.
  • A connection that stops working shows "Connect again". If Google says the permission was withdrawn, what KitCut read with it is deleted too.
The YouTube section of the account page, listing connected channels with Disconnect buttons, with a red circle around Connect another channel.
Channels are connected and disconnected on the account page.

Publishing a film

The person who made a film can publish it, once it is finished. In a shared workspace so can its owner and admins, on the workspace's channels (Workspaces).

  • Where Publish is, for a film that is not on YouTube yet:
    • on the film's own page: Publish to YouTube, under the video;
    • on a project's Episodes: Publish on the episode's picture;
    • on a project's Schedule: Schedule and Publish now beside each episode that is waiting, or a day of the calendar (below);
    • on the film's page in the Studio: Schedule and Publish now, under its details (A film's page in the Studio).
  • Once a film is on YouTube, or on its way there, Publish is gone from all of them. In its place is where the video stands (Uploading with its percentage, Processing, Scheduled with its day, Public and so on) and the way to the film's page in the Studio, where the video is looked after. A film goes to a channel once (below).
  • Pressing it always opens the dialog, and if it cannot publish it says why there: no channel is connected yet (with Connect YouTube), the film is not yours, or a new version of it is being made.
Field Rules
Channel any connected channel. An episode starts on its project's channel (the one the project last published to, or picked in its Settings); another film starts on the channel you used last.
Playlist shown when the channel has playlists: one of them, or No playlist. An episode starts on its project's playlist (Playlists).
When Publish now or Schedule. The page remembers the last choice.
Who can watch it with Publish now: public, unlisted or private. A scheduled video is private until its time, then public.
Title required, up to 100 characters. Suggested from the film (see below).
Description up to 5,000 bytes. Suggested from the film, ending with "Made with KitCut, the Claude video maker:" and your invite link.
Thumbnail one of four made from the film (see below), a picture of your own that you upload, or "Let YouTube pick a frame". The first of the four is picked unless you pick another.
Tags under Tags and audience: separated by commas, up to 500 characters. Suggested from the film.
Made for kids under Tags and audience: a checkbox, as YouTube requires
  • The button says what it does: Publish now for a public video, Publish as unlisted, Upload as private, or Schedule. The line beside it says the same in a sentence: "Goes public Mon, Oct 12 at 9:00 AM on" your channel.
  • Then it says what it did, in three steps: Uploading with its percentage, YouTube processes it (a minute or two), and what the video is then: Public, Unlisted, Private, or Scheduled for its day and time. The dialog follows it to the end, with Open the video's page and Watch on YouTube. Done closes it; the upload finishes on its own, even if you leave the page. With the dialog closed, a note at the foot of the screen follows it.
The publish dialog after Publish now was pressed: "Publishing..." with the upload at 50 percent, and under it three steps (circled): Uploading 50%, with a turning mark; YouTube processes it; Public. A line says it can be closed and finishes on its own.
After Publish: the three steps a video goes through, and where it is now.
  • Every page follows it from the moment you press the button: the episode's card says "Uploading 43%", the project's Schedule takes the episode off "Ready to publish", and the film's pages show the same line, all without reloading. None of them offers Publish for that film again.
  • The suggested title, description and tags are written by Claude from what the film says and shows (its narration, who it is for, the pages its facts came from) in the voice of the channel's latest videos: how they are titled, how their descriptions open, their sections, links and hashtags. They are written only when you ask for them: when the publish dialog opens, or when you press Write them for me on the film's page in the Studio. Looking at a film writes nothing. Words written before for the same film and channel are shown again, until the film has a new version or the channel's latest videos change. Until they are ready, grey lines stand where they will go. They never quote your idea, link only to pages the channel or the film already use, and add chapters only to films long enough to have parts. Anything you type is kept. If none can be written, the dialog offers the film's title and the credit line.
  • Picking another channel shows what was already written for it, if anything was. If nothing was, the dialog keeps what you have and offers Write them for that channel, which writes the title, description, tags and thumbnails again in that channel's voice. Nothing is written for a channel until you ask. If they can't be written, the ones you had stay.
  • The four thumbnails are made from the film itself. The first is the video's punch line on a dark box: a short catchy title of two to five words that names first who or what the film is about, the way a news headline says it ("Yandex hit, bots quiet"), set very large in the film's own type on a box of the film's darkest colour edged in its accent colour, with one word in that colour. It sits on the moment of the film that shows it best (the chart, the photograph, the document, the person) as the film drew it, with the film's own labels and sources left in view, where the box hides the least of the picture and never the circles and arrows the film drew to point at something. The other three each carry a short catchy question the film answers, or a short quote of what the film says, word for word and in quotation marks, with both kinds among them (a film with no narration gets questions). They are at most four words, with one in colour. Each is on a moment where what it shows is finished, drawn in full, and is what its words are about. The second is in a box on a whole frame of the film: heavy capitals in the film's own title type, on a box of the film's own accent colour, in the top corner where it hides the least. The title is cut at its first colon, dash or bracket, and what follows is set small beside the box ("Padel Tactics: Everything, in 6 Minutes" gives PADEL TACTICS large and EVERYTHING, IN 6 MINUTES small). The box carries that thumbnail's own question or quote, whole, and the video's title only for a thumbnail whose words are neither (one made before October 14). It uses the words as they were written with the thumbnails; a title you type afterwards does not change them. Words of more than 44 characters are too long to read in the box, and it is then made like the others. The last two carry their question or quote on the picture. A thumbnail whose words can't be set its own way gets them on a dark box like the first, rather than being offered with no words. A film that shows pictures (cut-out characters and objects, photographs) gets four posters put together from those pictures: one of them large, a person from the waist up or an object whole, on the film's own background, with the words beside it or above it. The four differ in layout, in which side the picture stands and in how the words are set, so a channel's thumbnails look related without looking the same. A film that draws everything itself gets four moments of the film with the words on them. Either way the film draws them itself, in its own type, colours, labels and logo, so they look like the film, and nothing in them is redrawn by an image model. Claude chooses the pictures, the moments and the words along with the title; each thumbnail is then checked before it is offered: the words can be read at the size of YouTube's "up next" list (168 pixels wide), they stand out from what is behind them, they stay clear of the corner where YouTube shows the video's length, and they cover none of the film's own words. They take up to a minute after the title and description; four grey boxes hold their place until then. Under them, the one you picked is shown beside your title at the size YouTube's feed shows it. A Free film's "made with kitcut.ai" mark is never on a thumbnail.
  • A Short (a tall film) gets its four thumbnails in its own tall shape, 1080 by 1920, each its words on a dark box over a moment of the film, kept between the top eighth and the lower quarter of the picture, where every place YouTube shows a Short's thumbnail keeps it in view. The dialog shows them tall. YouTube began letting channels set a Short's own thumbnail in July 2026, channels in its Partner Program first; where it does not, it shows a frame of its own.
  • Your own thumbnail: press Upload your own under the four and choose a JPG, PNG or WebP picture. It is made 1280 by 720 in your browser before it is sent (a picture that is not 16:9 is cut evenly at the sides, or at the top and bottom), it must come to 2 MB or less (YouTube's limit), and it is picked as soon as it is there. KitCut keeps one for each film; Upload another replaces it. It works for every film, including one whose thumbnails could not be made. It is not checked the way the four are, so look at it in the feed-size preview under the thumbnails. A channel that is not verified cannot use its own thumbnails, uploaded or made (see below).
The Thumbnail section of the publish dialog: four thumbnails made from a bee film, the first picked (1, circled), under them a dashed tile that says "Upload your own, JPG or PNG, 16:9" (2, circled), then "Let YouTube pick a frame", and the picked one at the size of YouTube's feed beside the video's title and channel (3, circled).
Four thumbnails made from the film, and the one picked as it will sit in YouTube's feed.
  • Setting the thumbnail happens once YouTube has the video. YouTube lets a channel use its own thumbnails only once the channel is verified (a phone number, at youtube.com/verify); on a channel that is not, the video is published with a frame YouTube chose, and the page says why. Once a channel has been refused, the dialog says so before the next thumbnail is picked, and the film's page in the Studio sends the picked one again afterwards (A film's page in the Studio).
  • Publishing the same film to the same channel twice is refused, unless a second copy is asked for by name (A film goes to a channel once).
  • A film that carries the KitCut mark (made on Free) says so in the dialog on its own page, with Remove them first: its copy on YouTube carries the mark and the ending too, and a copy already published keeps them (Removing the mark from a film).
  • A film that has a new version (Changing a finished film) goes up as the version it shows when you publish. A copy already on YouTube stays as it was, because YouTube cannot swap a video's file: the film's notes and its page in the Studio say when YouTube still has an earlier version, and the new one goes up as a new video (below).
  • While a new version is being made, nothing is published: the dialog says "Version N of this film is being made" and to publish when it is ready, in a few minutes.
  • Limit: 20 publishes per account per day.
  • Publishing an episode makes that channel its project's channel, so the next episode's dialog starts on it and its picture marks the project in the sidebar.

A film in another language

A film made in another language from a finished one (A film in other languages) is a film of its own, published like any other: the same dialog, the same Publish, Schedule and calendar. What is different is that everything on it is written again for it:

  • Its title, description, tags and four thumbnails are written from the translated film, in its language, for the channel you pick. They are not the original's, and not a translation of them: a draft or a picture in any other language than the film's is never shown or used.
  • Its language on YouTube is its own, whatever the original is: a Spanish film goes up as Spanish.
  • The dialog starts on the channel that suits it: one whose videos are in that language, else a channel the original is not on. It says "Spanish version of the original's title" at the top, marks each channel with the language it publishes in when KitCut knows it, and says when the channel you pick publishes in another language. The words stay in the film's language either way.
  • No fallback to the original's words. If no title could be written, the dialog asks you to type one: it is never filled in with the original's title or idea.
  • On a calendar as it is made: from Translate, or through an assistant (localize_film with youtube), each language can be put on a channel's calendar before it is finished; its words and thumbnails are written when it is done (A film in other languages).
  • A project that publishes its episodes by itself (Publishing every new episode automatically) leaves films in other languages alone.

Playlists

Where a channel has playlists, a video published from KitCut goes into one of them, so a channel that carries two series keeps each series' episodes together.

  • In the dialog: under the channels, Playlist lists the channel's playlists and No playlist. It is there only for a channel that has playlists. KitCut reads them from YouTube when the dialog opens, the first 50 of them. Playlists are made, renamed and ordered in YouTube Studio.
  • An episode's playlist is its project's. The playlist you pick for an episode is kept for its project on that channel, and the next episodes of the project published there start on it. Two projects on one channel each keep their own. Picking No playlist is kept the same way.
  • Before a project has one, KitCut picks the channel's playlist whose title has every word of the project's name: a project called "Leo" starts on a playlist called "Leo the big boy". If no playlist matches, or more than one does, it starts on No playlist. You can change it before publishing.
  • Publishes nobody watches use the same rule: an episode published automatically, or published or scheduled by an AI assistant that names no playlist, goes into its project's playlist on that channel, or the one named like the project. A film outside a project goes into a playlist only when you pick one.
  • When it is added: once YouTube has the video, a minute or two after the upload. A scheduled video is added then too; YouTube shows it in the playlist to others once it is public. The dialog's last screen says "It is in the playlist" with its name.
  • If it cannot be added (the playlist was deleted, or it is full), the video is published all the same and the dialog says why. Add it in YouTube Studio. A playlist that is gone is no longer the project's.
  • It needs the permission to manage your videos. On a channel connected without it, the list is greyed and says to connect the channel again, leaving every box ticked; nothing is added there until then.
  • Not from here: making a playlist, taking a video out of one, changing the playlist of a video that is already up, or putting one video in several playlists. Those are done in YouTube Studio.

A film goes to a channel once

One film is one video on a channel. A second copy is never made by accident: not by pressing the button twice, not from a second tab or another device, and not by an assistant.

  • The site refuses it. A publish of a film that is already on that channel, or still on its way there, is turned down, and nothing reaches YouTube. The page then shows the video that is there.
  • In the dialog, a channel that has the film says "Already there" on its row. With that channel picked there is no Publish button: the dialog says where the video stands, with Watch on YouTube and Open the video's page.
  • A second copy has to be asked for. Publish a second copy... under that line asks first: "A second video will appear on" the channel. "The first one stays up, with its views and comments." Only then does the form come back, with Publish a second copy on its button and Undo beside the warning. It is asked for each time and never remembered.
  • A new version of the film is the usual reason. YouTube cannot swap a video's file, so when the film has changed since it was published the dialog offers Publish version 2 as a new video. The earlier copy stays up until you make it private.
  • Publish to another channel (on the film's page in the Studio, and in the dialog once a film is sent) starts on a channel that does not have the film, and is offered only while one is free of it.
  • What does not count as a copy: an upload that failed, a video YouTube turned down, and one that was deleted on YouTube. Such a film is published again like any other. A copy that was last read a while ago is read on YouTube again before a publish is refused over it.
  • In a shared workspace a colleague's copy of an episode counts too. It is shown to read, and is changed from their own Studio.
  • A film that is on a channel twice says so at the top of its page in the Studio, and each copy is marked "Copy 1 of 2", "Copy 2 of 2". Make one private (each copy is listed on the page's Details tab), or use Delete it in YouTube Studio: KitCut never deletes a video.
The publish dialog for a film that is already on the channel picked: the channel's row says "Already there" (1, circled); under the channels, "Already on Sam's Sketchbook", Public with its views and Watch on YouTube, and the question "A second video will appear on Sam's Sketchbook. The first one stays up, with its views and comments." with the buttons Publish a second copy and Keep one (2, circled); at the foot, Close and Open the video's page, and no Publish button.
A channel that has the film says so, and a second copy is asked for by name.
A film's page in the Studio for a film that is on its channel twice: the line at the top says Public on Sam's Sketchbook and, under it, "It is on Sam's Sketchbook twice. Each copy is listed on the Details tab: make one private there, or delete it in YouTube Studio." (1, circled); under the details, "Every copy on YouTube" lists the two videos, marked "Copy 1 of 2" and "Copy 2 of 2" (2, circled), each with Public, Unlisted and Private, Open on YouTube and Delete it in YouTube Studio.
A film that is on a channel twice: said at the top, with each copy marked.

Scheduling: the channel's calendar

Choosing Schedule in the publish dialog opens a planner for the channel picked: what it published lately, what is scheduled on it, and the day KitCut suggests for this film. The film goes up to YouTube now, private, and YouTube itself makes it public at that time, so nothing needs to stay open.

The publish dialog with Schedule chosen: a suggested day with the reason for it (1, circled), the channel's calendar with each video's thumbnail on its day and this film on the day picked (2, circled), and at the foot "Goes public" with the day and time and the button Schedule (3, circled).
Schedule: the suggested day and why, the channel's calendar, and a button that says Schedule.
  • The calendar shows 5 weeks, starting two weeks back. Each day is a square; a video sits on its day as its thumbnail: what the channel published, and what is scheduled on it (marked with a clock). Days gone by are grey. The arrows move it earlier and later, and Today brings it back.
  • It shows the whole channel, not only what KitCut published: videos uploaded or scheduled in YouTube Studio are on it too.
  • Under the calendar, the same videos by title: Coming up lists what is scheduled, with this film where it would fall; Published lately lists the latest 3 with YouTube's view counts, and Show all lists the rest. Each row has the thumbnail, the title, the day and the time, and opens the video on YouTube. Pointing at a row lights its day on the calendar; clicking a day gone by shows its video in the list.
  • The suggested day is worked out by KitCut from the days the channel publishes on, and the dialog says why in a sentence ("publishes every other day, usually around 9:00 AM"). KitCut reads, from the channel's latest 12 videos of the last 120 days, the scheduled ones included:
    • how many days apart they go out (every day, every other day, once a week);
    • the weekdays it keeps to, when it keeps to five or fewer (Tuesdays and Fridays);
    • its usual time: the time of what is scheduled now; else the time of the videos that went out on a quarter hour to the minute, which is how scheduled videos go out; else the time most went out near. A channel with no usual time is offered 9:00.
  • The day offered is the first free day, at least 60 minutes ahead, that keeps that pace: after the last video scheduled, or in a gap left among them, and never the day before one already scheduled when the channel leaves more days between videos.
  • An episode follows its own series. When the film is in a project and that project's episodes on the channel show a pace of their own, the suggestion follows the series: two series on one channel each keep their days and their time, on a day the channel has free.
  • No pace yet: a channel (or series) with fewer than 3 videos, or videos on fewer than 3 days, gets its first free day. A channel behind its pace gets the first free day too, and the dialog says how long ago its last video went out.
  • Picking another day: click any day from today on, and set the time beside Goes public. Use it goes back to the suggestion. A day that already has a video can be picked, and the dialog says which video is on it.
  • What takes a day: public videos and scheduled ones. Unlisted videos count only on a channel with fewer than 3 public ones, and private videos with no time set never do.
  • Times are in your own time zone (the dialog names it). The time must be at least 15 minutes and at most a year away.
  • Nothing is kept: the calendar reads the channel's latest 50 uploads from YouTube each time it opens. The pace and the suggested day are KitCut's own reading of those dates, not numbers from YouTube.
  • If YouTube cannot be read (it did not answer, or the channel needs connecting again), the calendar shows only what KitCut published there, and the day offered is the first one free of those.

Publishing every new episode automatically

A project with a YouTube channel can schedule its own episodes. In the project's Settings, under YouTube channel, tick Publish new episodes automatically, pick the time of day and the time zone, and save.

  • What it does: every episode of the project that finishes is scheduled on the project's channel for the day after it finished, at the time you picked. It goes up private and YouTube makes it public at that time, like any scheduled video.
  • Nobody is asked first. The episode is not shown to you for approval: turn this on for a series you trust to go out as made. Until the time comes, the video is private on YouTube and can be moved, made private for good or deleted there, and moved from the planner here.
  • The time: 18:00 unless you pick another, on the hour or half hour, in the time zone you pick (it starts on your own). "The day after" is the next calendar day in that zone.
  • One video per time. When that time is already taken by another video KitCut scheduled on the channel, or has already passed, the episode moves on a day at a time to the first free one. Two episodes finished on the same day go out on two days.
  • The playlist is the project's on that channel (Playlists).
  • The words and the picture are the ones the publish dialog would offer: the title, description and tags KitCut writes from the film in the channel's voice, and the first of its thumbnails (YouTube picks a frame when none could be made). "Made for kids" is as the latest video KitCut published to the channel had it. Details you typed and saved on the episode's page in the Studio before then go up instead (A film's page in the Studio).
  • How soon: KitCut looks once every 60 minutes. The first look after an episode finishes asks for its title and description; a later one, once they are written, schedules it. At most 5 of these steps start in one look, over all your projects.
  • Episodes from before: when you turn it on, episodes finished in the last 3 days that are not on YouTube are scheduled too. Older ones are left to you.
  • What it leaves alone:
    • an episode that is already on YouTube from KitCut, on any channel: published, scheduled or linked by hand (below);
    • an episode whose publish failed: publish it again from its page;
    • an episode whose next version is being made: the new version is scheduled once it is finished.
  • It publishes as whoever turned it on, to a channel that person connected, and counts toward their 20 videos a day. If the channel needs connecting again, nothing is scheduled until it is.
  • Turning it off: untick the box and save, or set the project's channel to None. Videos already scheduled stay scheduled.

A project's Schedule

A project's Schedule tab (kitcut.ai/studio/your-project#schedule) is its channel's whole calendar, a month at a time, with the project's own episodes marked. It is there for every account that can publish to YouTube.

A project's Schedule tab: at the top "Next free day" with the reason and the button Schedule EP 5 for then (circled as 1); a month's calendar of the channel with each video on its day, this project's episodes outlined and marked EP 2 to EP 4, the scheduled ones with a clock (2, circled); on the right Ready to publish with an episode and its Schedule and Publish now buttons (3, circled), and Coming up with Change date beside each scheduled video.
A project's Schedule: the next free day, the channel's month, the episodes waiting, and what is coming up.
  • The calendar is a month of the project's channel (the one picked in its Settings, or the one it last published to; with several channels connected, a box above the calendar switches). Each video sits on its day with its picture, its time and its title. This project's episodes are outlined and carry their episode number; the channel's other videos are greyed, because a day they take is taken for this project too. A scheduled video's time is on the accent colour with a clock. The arrows change the month, and Today comes back.
  • Next free day, above the calendar and dashed on it, is the day that keeps the series' pace (how it is worked out), with the reason in a sentence. Schedule EP N for then opens the publish dialog for the episode that has waited longest, on that day.
  • Ready to publish lists the project's finished episodes that are not on YouTube. Each has Schedule (the dialog opens on Schedule, with the suggested day picked) and Publish now.
  • Coming up lists what is scheduled on the channel, soonest first, each with Change date where KitCut can move it.
  • A day takes an episode: the + on a day from today on (or the dashed square) lists the episodes that are waiting; picking one opens the publish dialog on Schedule with that day picked. On a computer, an episode in Ready to publish can also be dragged onto a day.
  • A video on the calendar opens a small menu: its title, its day and time, Change date (a scheduled one), Open its page (an episode of this project) and Open on YouTube. On a computer, a scheduled video can also be dragged to another day, which opens Change date with that day picked: nothing moves until you confirm it there.
  • With no channel connected, the tab says so, with Connect YouTube. With a channel that needs connecting again, it shows only what KitCut published there, and says so.

Changing a scheduled video

Change date is beside a scheduled video wherever one is shown: on the line under the film on its page, in an episode's badge menu, on a project's Schedule, and on the film's page in the Studio. It opens a small dialog for that video.

The Change date dialog for a scheduled video: its title, channel and present time at the top; the next free day with Use it; the channel's calendar with the video on its present day (circled as 1); at the foot Publish now and Take off the schedule on the left (2, circled) and the button that moves it on the right.
Change date: pick the video's new day on its channel's calendar, publish it now, or take it off the schedule.
  • Move it: pick the new day on the channel's calendar, set the time, and press Move to that day. Its time is changed on YouTube at once, and YouTube makes it public then instead.
  • KitCut reads the video back from YouTube before it says "moved". The note at the foot of the screen, the calendar and the film's page show the time YouTube now holds. If YouTube did not keep the new time, KitCut says so and leaves the video as it was.
  • Publish now makes it public right away, after asking once. While Google has not finished verifying KitCut, YouTube may keep it private, and KitCut says so.
  • Take off the schedule leaves it on the channel as a private video with no day. It can be scheduled again or published whenever you like.
  • A private video with no day has Schedule on the film's page in the Studio: the same dialog, giving it its first day. YouTube takes a time only on a private video that was never public.
  • It needs the channel's fourth permission (managing its videos). On a channel that has not given it, the dialog says so before a day is picked, with Connect again and a link to the video in YouTube Studio.
  • Which videos: the ones KitCut published, and the ones linked to a film. A video scheduled in YouTube Studio itself is shown on the calendars but is changed there.
  • From an AI assistant: an assistant connected to KitCut can read every channel's calendar at once, schedule a film on one or several channels for a day (even while the film is still being made: it goes up the minute it is finished, and the calendars show its day as planned until then), move a scheduled video, publish one now or take it off the schedule, and turn a project's automatic publishing on or off (Assistants). Giving a private video its first day is done on these pages.

A film's page in the Studio

Every film has a page of its own in the Studio, at kitcut.ai/studio/film/ and its id, where its video is looked after before and after it is published. It has its own page here: A film's page in the Studio.

  • Before publishing, its Details tab holds the title, description, tags and thumbnail, and Schedule and Publish now send exactly what it shows.
  • After, the same tab changes them on YouTube, the thumbnail can be changed or sent again, and who can watch the video (or its day) is beside the film.
  • A film that is on a channel twice, or whose video is an earlier version than the film, says so at the top of that page.

After publishing: where a video stands

Each episode published to YouTube carries a badge on its card in the project, a line under the film on its page, and a card on its page in the Studio, saying where the video stands on YouTube now and how many views YouTube counts for it. An episode that is not on YouTube has Publish in the badge's place; one on its way there says Uploading and how far it is.

Badge Means
Uploading, Processing on its way, or YouTube is getting it ready
Public anyone can find it and watch it
Unlisted only people with the link can watch it
Private only the channel can watch it. While Google has not finished verifying KitCut, YouTube keeps new videos private, and the badge's note says so.
Scheduled private until the publish time set on YouTube; the badge says the day
Rejected YouTube turned it down (a duplicate, a copyright claim, its length or its rules), with the reason
On YouTube its channel was disconnected, so KitCut no longer knows where it stands
  • YouTube does not tell other apps when a video's privacy changes or it is deleted. So KitCut asks: every hour, for every published video, and again when you open the project, for any video not read in the last 10 minutes. A change made in YouTube Studio shows here within the hour, or as soon as you open the project.
  • A video that is gone from YouTube (deleted there, or its channel was) has no badge and no row in the Studio. Its film counts as not published, and can be published again. KitCut still emails you when it finds one gone (below).
  • Clicking a badge opens its menu: where the video stands and why (for Private and Rejected), its channel and views, when it was last read, and:
    • Change date, on a scheduled video (above).
    • Open its page, the film's page in the Studio.
    • Open on YouTube.
    • Who can watch: Public, Unlisted or Private, changed on YouTube at once. It needs the channel's fourth permission; without it the choices are greyed out, with a link to connect the channel again. While Google has not finished verifying KitCut, YouTube keeps new videos private, and the menu says so if a change to public or unlisted did not take.
    • Unlink from this film, for a video linked by hand (below). The video stays on YouTube.
The menu of an episode's YouTube badge, open on a scheduled episode: Scheduled on YouTube with its channel and when it was read, then Change date (circled as 1), Open its page, Open on YouTube, and Who can watch with Public (2, circled), Unlisted and Private.
A badge's menu: change a scheduled video's date, open its page, or change who can watch it.
  • Linking a video uploaded by hand: an episode published to YouTube some other way can be linked to its film from the film's page in the Studio: Link a video already on YouTube lists the channel's latest uploads, with the one whose length matches the episode picked already, or takes a pasted link. The video must be on a channel connected to the account. From then on it has its badge and its numbers like one published from KitCut.
  • An email when a video changes on YouTube: when KitCut finds a video removed, turned down, or made public, unlisted or private, it emails you, one email for all it found at once. A change made from KitCut's own menu sends none. Turn these off under Emails on the account page.
  • A video's status history (when it went from unlisted to public, or was removed) is kept for 30 days.
  • The numbers are YouTube's own: the running total of views, likes and comments as YouTube reports it, and, on the Views page, its day-by-day views, watch time and subscribers from YouTube Analytics. YouTube reports each day up to 3 days late.
A project's episodes: the newest has Publish on its picture (circled as 1), the next a badge saying Scheduled with its day (2, circled), and the others Public with YouTube's view count (3, circled).
An episode's picture says where it stands on YouTube, or Publish while it is not there.

Not possible

  • Publishing as a Short (films are 16:9).
  • Making a playlist, or changing the playlist of a video that is already on YouTube (Playlists): that is done in YouTube Studio.
  • Moving a scheduled video that KitCut did not publish and that is not linked to a film. Change its time in YouTube Studio; the calendar shows the new day the next time it opens.
  • Scheduling several episodes in one go by hand: each is scheduled on its own, from the Schedule or its dialog. A project can schedule its own new episodes (above), and an AI assistant can schedule a film on several channels in one go, or before it is finished.
  • Scheduling a film before it is finished, on these pages: the dialog opens on a finished film. An AI assistant can do it (Assistants); a film planned that way shows on the channel's calendar as scheduled, and is moved or taken off from the assistant.
  • Looking an episode over before a project publishes it automatically, picking its thumbnail, or leaving one episode out: turn automatic publishing off, or change the scheduled video before its time.
  • Deleting a video from KitCut, or changing a published video's category, language or "made for kids". Use YouTube Studio; the badge follows the change.
  • Following a video on a channel that is not connected to the account.
  • Connecting a channel from an AI assistant: Google's screens are on the account page. An assistant can publish to the channels connected there, write the title, description and thumbnails, and follow a publish (Assistants).