No direct way to upload video files from Google Drive to YouTube Studio
Creators storing video files in Google Drive cannot upload them directly to YouTube Studio and must first download the file locally before re-uploading, an extra step users find surprising given other tools in the same ecosystem support direct cloud-to-cloud transfer.
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