How to: Download and Convert YouTube Videos

[meanpuppy955]

yes but how do i downlopad from windows movie maker

[808Productionz]

He's chrome keying this =/ nice.

[martinorozco]

thanks for the tips

[EndCredulity]

For those without Firefox, keep in mind that every YT vid you watch already DOES download to your hard drive. That's what the faded-red progress bar ahead of the dark red play bar of the vid means. It is showing the download status. (Your computer plays YT vids off of your hard drive, not the YouTube servers)

It downloads to your Temporary Internet Files folder, so you can just copy and paste it to a different folder before going to a new vid page.

But it's an .flv and Firefox is much easier.

[TMTGAU]

I use Orbit to download.

[Phibins]

your green screen needs a little upgrading.

[MaskedSkeptic]

You can also go to keepvid*com and download in flv or mp4.

[RentTheSpokeMan]

If you install the latest version of Real player you can download youtube vids, or any other vids from other sites, really quite easily.

[hendricksamp88]

but u cant put them onto windows movie maker

[mikrobious]

YOU ARE THE MAN!

[Mithcoriel]

Thanks for the info.

Does anyone know other movie editing programs that are free? :)

[MaskedSkeptic]

You can torrent sony vegas 8.

[massspectrician]

LiVES is free and open source. FFmpeg, MEncoder also work (all cmdline editing).

[vinak963]

....I can see your aura.

its a hazy green.. O.O

[guugolpl0x]

Isn't that bad?

[shanedk]

Yeah, SUPER is great.

There's also a "YouTube Downloader" (that's the name; just Google for it) that works pretty well.

[shanedk]

I've had mixed results with this method. Sometimes it works, but a lot of times the video gets really screwed up with it.

[ApocalypseNigh]

hmmmm i dont see the download as an mp4 link

[ThetaOmega]

I haven't upgraded to firefox 3.0 yet, maybe that's why, if you are using firefox 3

[dackjaniels555]

Firefox 3 uses ~20-75mb of ram, older versions have problems with memory leaks so they have a much larger memory footprint of ~60-800mb (yes eight hundred.), Firefox 3 is much more stable and secure also you might want to upgrade, there are a lot of advantages, if you don't like the new Theme i recommend this one: addons[.]mozilla[.]org/en-US/f­irefox/addon/364

its very neat and compact.

[dackjaniels555]

If you want to use older Add-ons follow these instructions:

1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter.

2. Click the "Ill be careful, I promise!" Button

3. In the filter feild type "extensions.dta.version"

4. Double click on the only preference that is shown below.

5. A dialog box comes up asking you to enter a value (this is the version number Firefox uses to tell if Add-ons are out of date, change the value to 1.0.

Install Add-ons as you normally would.

Enjoy!

[dackjaniels555]

sorry about that, for step 3 i should have said:

3. In the filter feild type "extensions.lastAppVersion".

heh.

[dackjaniels555]

Here's my method for downloading YT vids.

This also works for most other websites!

2. Install the "Fast Video Download" Add-on.

1. Install the "DownThemAll!" Add-on.

3. Go to Tools/Add-ons, select "Fast Video Download" and click its "Options" button,

Check every box excluding "Put links into Flashgot".

Re-encoding Always leads to quality loss, you can use VLC media player to play .FLV files its 100% free (videolan[.]org/vlc).

Enjoy!

Any questions about Firefox then send me a PM.

[shanedk]

I HIGHLY recommend FireFox 3! I was using it as my regular browser since Beta 2 with no real problems.

[Shadoweaver111]

lol I am one of the people that asked you! Thanks again for the info, this video cleared up a few problems that I was having. <3

[MonkeyOctober]

Zamzar is a GREAT site.

You can gte images,video,music and such.And they send it to you through your email address.

[daveheet]

gotta love the fidgety, awkward British intellectuals...

[Shadoweaver111]

I know I do!

[pagangeek]

Firefox FTW !!!!!!!!!!!.

[HonestDiscussioner]

First comment . . . thanks I was about to ask you this very question.

[TETSUno1]

Real player will add a "download" button to YT videos automatically, It does download to .FLV tho.

[windham666]

thanks for that mr. theta, also, in safari, you can open the activity window and double click the largest file (the movie file itself). this loads a .flv to the desktop, which i then convert with isquint freeware

[sacrosanct24]

Keepvid lets you download the file, I didn't specify that.

[sacrosanct24]

There is a great web based site called keepvid (dot) com that lets you do it.

[Atheist001]

I use a Firefox plugin to download them in flv format, then I use "Power Video Converter" to convert them to a comfortable AVI or WMV.

[jebus6kryst]

Thank you.

[riversonthemoon]

I use DownloadHelper myself, but that downloads it in whatever format it streams in.

That converter looks the shit, though. Thanks for that.

[floydstinkyboy]

mpegstreamclip is the best converter ever!