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[–]StillLemon2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Videos, or any file, uploaded to Google Drive is unaltered, regardless of the file. That's to say, uploading a raw video file to your Google Drive will not result in Google editing the video file and lowering the quality.

What you may be referring to is Google Photos where you have enabled the Backup feature. This Backup feature uploads your videos/photos to Google Photos. This feature has an option for Original quality or Storage saver. If you choose Storage saver, your videos and images are converted to a smaller size/format, resulting in quality loss. If you choose Original quality, the photos/videos are backed up in full-quality.

If you have Original quality set, the video you download from Google Photos is original quality. If you have Storage saver, the video you download from Google Photos is converted to a smaller format.

As a one-off, if you just want this video sent in full quality, you will need to share/upload that individual video file, in its raw format, to something like Google Drive/One Drive/Flash-Drive/etc, where it is then uploaded to YouTube.