Capture You Tube videos

[Margek_corel]

I am using Video Studio X4. Can anyone tell me if I can capture You Tube videos for future viewing off line. I am a fairly new user and really need some detailed instructions if it can be done. There are some really informative tutorials regarding my husband's GPS unit and other gadgets but we don't always have access to an internet connection.
Marge.

[pvreditor]

I am using Video Studio X4. Can anyone tell me if I can capture You Tube videos for future viewing off line. I am a fairly new user and really need some detailed instructions if it can be done. There are some really informative tutorials regarding my husband's GPS unit and other gadgets but we don't always have access to an internet connection.
Marge.

I'm very active on YouTube, and as far as I know, there is no simple way to record and save YouTube videos directly to your computer. There is obviously a way to do it, but it almost certainly requires some software. To my knowledge, VideoStudio will not do it. The obvious reason why this is difficult is that an easy method would make copyright theft rampant. As it is, I have a popular video that has been stolen and re-posted many times (both on YouTube and other sites).

The simplest way is probably to point a video camera at your computer monitor and record the YouTube video. That actually works better than it sounds, usually.

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[canuck]

This Firefox AddOn may be able to help you download from youTube

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... oadhelper/

[pvreditor]

This Firefox AddOn may be able to help you download from youTube

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... oadhelper/

I didn't know about this. It's a little complicated getting everything loaded (including the converter) and it's not completely intuitive to use, but it works very well. The only video I tried so far has a resolution of 360p, and the resulting "captured" video is small -- considerably smaller than the small viewing window on YouTube. But it otherwise looks and sounds good. Thanks for the tip!

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[canuck]

I actually don't use this Firefox downloader since my "Internet Download Manager" gives me the option to download any youTube video as soon as it starts playing. Often I have a choice of several video formats to download, including 1080pHD.

[Margek_corel]

Thanks pvreditor. I hadn't thought of filming the You Tube video so I just tried it. Not the best image (I was using my camera video recording) but certainly good enough for my needs. I will try some of the other advice but this method does work.
Marge

[Robotics]

I am using Video Studio X4. Can anyone tell me if I can capture You Tube videos for future viewing off line. I am a fairly new user and really need some detailed instructions if it can be done. There are some really informative tutorials regarding my husband's GPS unit and other gadgets but we don't always have access to an internet connection.
Marge.

Another Firefox extension, and the best out there...I use it all the time and it works great:

http://www.bestvideodownloader.com/