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Question: iFilm to harddrive to powerpoint directions

pammo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:52:07 -0800

VideoFilter: How to download video from youtube or iFilm to my hard drive?

I'm asking for a friend who's putting together a powerpoint lecture for tomorrow. He'd like to embed a video clip of the promo for the video game Sabotage into his powerpoint presentation. Although iFilm has a download option on its website, I can't get it to work. We've tried on a Mac and a PC. Please don't tell me it can't be done! Oh, and it would be great if we could lose the Snickers commercial.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:55:16 -0800

http://keepvid.com/

By: tehloki

tehloki — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:04:15 -0800

Videodownloader
Download Embedded

You'll have to grab it after the interstitial ad has played, though.

By: dismas

dismas — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:29:50 -0800

If you're using Firefox, the DownloadHelper extension works pretty well.

By: The_Auditor

The_Auditor — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:43:15 -0800

For Mac: Tubesock . I use it all the time and it works great.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:48:22 -0800

I use vixy.net and it works just great.

By: jk252b

jk252b — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:05:52 -0800

Second DownloadHelper extension. But that downloads it as a Flash file, so some sorta converter like iSquint (osx) is good to put it in to mpeg, avi, whatev...

By: maremare

maremare — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 12:46:25 -0800

On a Mac make a video screengrab of the YouTube movie with Snapz Pro (Demo). That way you can avoid the commercial and have no conversion degradation.

By: Substrata

Substrata — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:04:51 -0800

Zamzar

By: dhammond

dhammond — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:56:20 -0800

pammo, I work for iFilm and can help you out with this, if the above options don't work for you. Feel free to email me (address is in my profile).

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:16:21 -0800

Seconding Zamzar. Works great for this sort of thing, and you can pick whatever format you want it in.

By: pammo

pammo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:39:13 -0800

Wow, thank you all for the great ideas. I've forwarded this thread to my friend and will probably spend some time tomorrow checking the links more thoroughly for future personal use.

By: B(oYo)BIES

B(oYo)BIES — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:17:26 -0800

Can you find the video on Google Video? If so, you have access to the original AVI. It will be just as good as the video on the site. The problem with ZAMZAR and the other video ripping tools is that you lose quality and sync. With my method, you get the AVI straight from Google's server.