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twerppoet said:Hmm, I'm guessing you are trying to upload videos through Safari directly to the sites. Won't work. Because the iPad does not have a general file system (accesible to all apps), Safari can not find and upload files. Rather than confuse the issue (more than it does now) Safari will grey out the usual Choose File buttons on websites.
There are three ways around this (off the top of my head).
Use apps specific to the site. This is the preferred, best working method. It looks like Animoto has an iPhone app. It won't look all that good, but it should work on the iPad. How well it will work and whether it will do all you want, I've no idea. Just search for it in the app store, it's free. I get no hits for Edmoto.
The second way is to use a third party browser. iCab Mobile will attempt to do uploads. You have to use the Open In feature in another app to get the files into iCab first. Not all apps have this, notably the Photos app. You need a third app like GoodReader to copy photos to itself, then you could use Open In from it to move them to iCab Mobile, and then visit the website and try to upload. Sound like a lot of trouble? It is. Even when you do this there is no guarantee. Not all sites will work with iCab's upload feature.
Three; upload the video or whatever file to a cloud service like DropBox, copy the public link (must end in the filename not some weird shortening suffix like /XZZLTWN). Then (if the website has the option) choose the upload URL options instead of the Choose File button.
There are probably a few other ways, but it's getting late(ish) here, and I have to get up early tomorrow.
Good luck.