Authentication Failure when uploading to YouTube from Premiere Pro CC 12.1

[aydeisen37]

When I try export a video in Premiere Pro to directly upload to YouTube, I usually receive a 401 authentication failure error, despite my Google account being configured in my adobe.com profile.  The export setting themselves are able to correctly retrieve my YouTube channel settings without any interaction on my part, so I know that my current configuration should be correct.

This seems to occur most often when encoding takes more than an hour to complete.  This would coincide with a typical expiration of the OAUTH 2.0 authentication token.  It would also suggest that Adobe Premiere Pro may not have the logic to refresh an expired authentication token when it's ready to upload the encoded video.

Has anyone else experienced this issue and, if any moderators from Adobe stumble on this posting, is there a roadmap to correcting this issue?

[Ann Bens]

No solution but upload manually.

[aydeisen37 · Accepted solution]

True, but it turns my export into a multi-step process.  It works, but it's not ideal.

If my assumption is correct about Adobe Premiere Pro not refreshing the OAUTH 2.0 token when it's ready to upload, then I fear this is a programming issue, and can only be resolved by Adobe's development team.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi aydeisen37,

Sorry for this. You can file that issue here: Premiere Pro: Hot (1451 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,
Kevin

[aydeisen37]

Kevin-Monahan​: Is there a better place to file a bugfix than Adobe's suggestion box?

[Kevin-Monahan]

The user voice site I linked to is the best place now.

Thanks,
Kevin

[TPGJARED]

I was having a similar issue uploading to YouTube. Each time the video audio encoding would go to 100% and immediately fail for numerous different reasons similar to ones stated in this and other posts. Using the publish to YouTube option during video export was the issue. I simply signed out of Adobe premiere pro, signed back in and did the same with the linked YouTube account. Closed everything and re-opened and the upload went through flawlessly. Almost like restarting a smartphone that's acting up fixes most issues. Weird but hope it helps someone! 

[coachnicklewis]

I am having the same issue now.   

I am curious, what do you mean sign out of Adobe Permiere pro?   Do you mean sign out of the Creative Cloud Desktop?   As far as I can tell, I cannot sign out of Premiere Pro.   I can close it and open it back up, but I don't see a sign out option. 

Thanks!

[7Days]

As far as I know, to sign out of your Youtube channel on Adobe Premiere Pro, go to:
File/Export/Media
On the left hand menu, toggle Youtube ON. 
Click on the Youtube title to open the settings, and go down to PUBLISH. Here you can Sign In or Sign Out from Youtube. 
I am currently also having upload to youtube problems, but it may be this same time-related authentication issue. My video files are over or under an hour, so I suspect as above the authy is timing out. I will try the login/logout suggestion on both YT and Premiere.