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capturing videos from youtube & online video sites
Does anyone suggest a good software for capturing videos from online sites such as archive.org, youtube.com, and various news sites?
I need to then bring these captured videos into a FCP HDV1080i60 formatted timeline without having to render everything.
I’ve tried Snapz Pro, but that software’s frame rate system is not compatible with FCP’s very specific frame rate system.
I was told about Perian, but that doesn’t seem to be working.
Any other suggestions?
Any advice would be greatly appreciate!
Thank yoU!
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There are sites out there that will download and convert the YouTube videos for you. I actually did this for a trailer to a documentary that I was cutting…
Check out https://www.vixy.net – it allows you to type in a YouTube URL and it will convert it to quicktime or different formats for you. You can then work with this in Final Cut.
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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Look in Safari’s Avtivity window (Window Menu). Option double-click on the movie – down it comes to your hard drive…. Then use Perian’s Flash Component, and MPEG Streamclip to manage the conversion to the codec of your choice. -
tubesock will let you capture youtube videos, but the options of compression are limited. You’d likely have to run them through compressor to make them a FCP friendly format. I don’t believe it will work for other sites, though–just youtube. The demo will let you save 30 seconds of video–you can test it to see if it works. If it does and you need longer pieces it’s pretty cheap.
Michael.
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No offence but it sounds like you are planing on putting youTube video in a HDV time time.
youTube video looks bad enough online, by the time you enlarge it to HD sizes it is going to look like CRAP.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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There’s no question that the quality suffers – but depending on the project the rough look might actually work. I used YouTube videos to composite on screen multiple news clips all happening at once and overlapping each other – and even though the quality started out low I added some effects and further degraded the images and it ended up looking great.
So it really just depends on how they intend to be used.
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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University -
I would suggest that you contact the people who shot the YouTube video. You can reach them through the YouTube site.
I recently did a three video series for a large company and I decided to use YouTube videos in one of them. I contacted the YouTube posters, told them what I was doing, and offered them $100 each for the use of their video. In return, each of them sent me their original tapes. I edited them, took them into After Effects to put them in a standard YouTube frame with moving progress bar. They looked great.
This accomplished two things: First, my client was thrilled with the result. Also, the YouTube videographers were proud AND they felt fairly compensated for their work.
If you’re making a video for profit I think it is more honorable to do it this way. No matter what you might be able to get away with.
(No criticism is suggested of the original poster. I have no idea how Britney plans to use the YouTube videos.)
— Lee
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Hi there –
I just started using this site to download and convert You Tube videos, it’s so quick and simple and free.
A lot of other sites that will let you download won’t convert. This one will let you convert into .mov, and many other formats.
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that doesn’t seem to work. When I open the activity window, there is not one movie but rather several 1.7 meg movies. WHen I download one of them, it doesn’t let me open it. ANy other ideas?
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looks like youtube is blocking this site
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