Saving YouTube Videos

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Posted by Danny Nicholson | Posted in ICT, Resources | Posted on 15-05-2008

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If you want to use YouTube videos and your school blocks access to them, then you need to be able to save them at home, and bring them into school. There are many different ways available now to save a youtube file locally.

This Script can be added to the toolbar of the Firefox web browser. When you see a video you want to save, click the button and then the page changes to allow you to save the file as an .mp4 video file.

All the instructions are on the page and it seems relatively straightforward. The thing to remember is to change the filename from .htm to .mp4 when you save it.

Another good guide to saving videos can be found on the Teachers Love Smartboards blog.

Also try

Converttube: http://www.converttube.com/

YouConvertIt: http://www.youconvertit.com/OnlineVideo.aspx

Zamzar http://www.zamzar.com/

Miro: http://www.getmiro.com/

Video Downloader: Fast Video Downloader

Obviously it goes without saying that you need to be aware that you may be infringing copyright by storing these clips – but this does provide a good workaround for those teachers who want to show a YouTube clip in a lesson where the school have blocked YouTube access.

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Comments (2)

Gerardo Lazaro said on 28-05-2008

I think that the best way to download YouTube videos is by using the Real Player (v 11), you can download it for free (or upgrade) from the real player webite (www.real.com). the advantage is that the videos are downloaded as .flv, a flash video format that is very easy to use, and if you use Smart Boards, the Notebook software receives it very well.
dannynic said on 01-06-2008

thanks Gerado. Most of the sites I linked to above also save as .flv files. As you say you can drag these directly into Smart Notebook.

Saving in other file formats would also be handy though – mp4 files for example can then be played on iPods and other video devices.