In case you wanted to know how I got that Johnny Brady video off of YouTube and then cut it and reuploaded it, here’s the process:
- Use Videodownloader or VideoDL to download it.
- Convert it from an FLV (flash video) to AVI using Riva DLV Encoder.
- Use Windows Movie Maker to cut out what you want from it.
- Upload to YouTube.
1. When saving from the YouTube downloading sites, save the file with the .flv extension, most will want to save them as .html. VLC and a few other players will easily play .flv files but Microsoft Media Player doesn’t like them.
2. Make sure to download the freeware Riva FLV Encoder 2 and not the time crippled Riva Producer. The help files for it are quite unhelpful and it is not obvious you can convert from .flv to something else like avi. This guide here is helpful. The application seems to be a bit precious and has stalled once or twice but it’s free so you’ll have to make do.
3. Windows Movie Maker won’t work on Vista unless your graphics card can work with Aero. If you start Movie Maker and get:
“Windows Movie Maker cannot start because your video card does not support the required level of hardware acceleration or hardware acceleration is not available�
then you need Movie Maker 2.6. Movie Maker 2.6 will work with Vista even without a powerful graphics card. Thank god.
4. YouTube accepts any format really. It does all the converting back to FLV on the server side. Movies need to be under ten minutes long and/or under 100mb in size.
So there ya go
Excellent guide – I’ve often wanted to try my hand at a few video edits etc. but never really looked into finding the right tools – might give it a go now!
And dont forget, you can always upload the flv directly back to the server if you so wish. At least with google video you can anyway. Hnady for keeping an embarrassing copy of all those electorial promise videos online for years to come 🙂
Vixy.net is my favourite one, it allows you to download a video as an avi, mov, or mp4, or (handily for me) to take the audio as an mp3. It doesn’t always work perfectly, but it’s the handiest.
On the mac, tools like Podner and TubeSock will download the video from YouTube and convert it to your choice (.avi, .mov, mp4) in one click. This makes saving videos for iTunes/Video iPods very simple.
Those genii from BalconyTV could learn a thing or two from you Damo!
That was directed at Damo Mulley, but from reading Damien Blake’s comment, that can apply to you to.
Thanks for that – I had been attempting this recently without much success!
Lifehacker mentions iTube as a windows app that does that stuff I mentioned above- download and re-encode from youtube in one go.
Lifehacker mentions iTube as a windows app that does that stuff I mentioned above- download and re-encode from youtube in one go.
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