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June 13, 2019 6:37 PM Subscribe
I am having a lot of trouble downloading various things for my use. Hope possible?
I need step by step help with this kind of thing and askme has worked miracles in the past so fingers crossed.
I don't know how to access my own material in offline or downloaded venues. It just never works. Here are two examples that are most urgent:
1. I need to download my own iphone videos and put them or a link to them into a microsoft word document. These videos are about one minute long. I can't figure out how to do this. I can hyperlink to online and I can paste iphone still photos in but I don't know how to do this one task of getting my tiny videos into my document so that someone will be reading my microsoft word document and then gets to see my video. MacBook Air/Iphone.
2. I need to screen commercial movies and short videos on my laptop (again, 2014 MacBook Air) in a place that has absolutely no internet. No Bluetooth, no iphone possible, no ipod, no Wifi. So I downloaded some ITunes movies that I had purchased. It keeps saying my screen won't support it. Hmm. I also want to download youtube and movies I bought on Amazon Prime to watch offline. It says my laptop won't?
I feel that everyone knows how to do these things, but I do not at all have an intuitive tech sense. If someone says, for example, for #1 of my question, "use Google Drive to get the video into your text" I still won't know how to make it get into my actual document. (or MP3. )
I don't know if these things are really 2 questions; they seem related to me (hence title) but if not, I suppose they can be mod-zapped and I'll try again! Thank you askme...
I need step by step help with this kind of thing and askme has worked miracles in the past so fingers crossed.
I don't know how to access my own material in offline or downloaded venues. It just never works. Here are two examples that are most urgent:
1. I need to download my own iphone videos and put them or a link to them into a microsoft word document. These videos are about one minute long. I can't figure out how to do this. I can hyperlink to online and I can paste iphone still photos in but I don't know how to do this one task of getting my tiny videos into my document so that someone will be reading my microsoft word document and then gets to see my video. MacBook Air/Iphone.
2. I need to screen commercial movies and short videos on my laptop (again, 2014 MacBook Air) in a place that has absolutely no internet. No Bluetooth, no iphone possible, no ipod, no Wifi. So I downloaded some ITunes movies that I had purchased. It keeps saying my screen won't support it. Hmm. I also want to download youtube and movies I bought on Amazon Prime to watch offline. It says my laptop won't?
I feel that everyone knows how to do these things, but I do not at all have an intuitive tech sense. If someone says, for example, for #1 of my question, "use Google Drive to get the video into your text" I still won't know how to make it get into my actual document. (or MP3. )
I don't know if these things are really 2 questions; they seem related to me (hence title) but if not, I suppose they can be mod-zapped and I'll try again! Thank you askme...
Wikipedia has an article "comparison of YouTube downloaders". I haven't used any of the software listed and so can't speak to their legitimacy.
posted by XMLicious at 6:55 PM on June 13, 2019
posted by XMLicious at 6:55 PM on June 13, 2019
I don't know enough about MS Word to know if it even really does this. This guide seems to think it will.
I also want to download youtube and movies I bought on Amazon Prime to watch offline. It says my laptop won't?
Can you talk more about this? There are a lot of good YouTube downloaders which, while ethically iffy, are usually technically decent. For viewing YouTube videos offline, you should download VLC Media player on your laptop before you get offline. It's a media player that plays more different video formats than whatever is on your laptop.
And as far as Prime viewing offline, my understanding is that this is for iOS devices only (i.e. ipad and iphone) and not laptops, so it's not you, it's them.
posted by jessamyn at 9:24 PM on June 13, 2019
I also want to download youtube and movies I bought on Amazon Prime to watch offline. It says my laptop won't?
Can you talk more about this? There are a lot of good YouTube downloaders which, while ethically iffy, are usually technically decent. For viewing YouTube videos offline, you should download VLC Media player on your laptop before you get offline. It's a media player that plays more different video formats than whatever is on your laptop.
And as far as Prime viewing offline, my understanding is that this is for iOS devices only (i.e. ipad and iphone) and not laptops, so it's not you, it's them.
posted by jessamyn at 9:24 PM on June 13, 2019
If you've paid for content and it comes with digital restrictions that prevent you from playing it back on whatever device you damn well please, I believe you need have absolutely no compunction about acquiring another, unrestricted copy of it via whatever means present themselves.
I like Transmission for downloading damn near anything commercial and a great deal of stuff that isn't. To start a download on Transmission you will want a magnet link for the content concerned, and these are usually very easy to find on https://thepiratebay.rocks or https://rarbg.to or any number of other torrent curation sites.
The most reliable YouTube downloader I'm aware of is youtube-dl. It works against a heap of other video storage sites as well, including the catch-up TV sites maintained by many broadcasters. By design it's a no-frills command-line tool, so you will need to be a little bit familiar with the Terminal app on your Mac to use it; there are GUI front ends available but I haven't ever used one so can't give you useful recommendations there.
posted by flabdablet at 11:27 PM on June 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
I like Transmission for downloading damn near anything commercial and a great deal of stuff that isn't. To start a download on Transmission you will want a magnet link for the content concerned, and these are usually very easy to find on https://thepiratebay.rocks or https://rarbg.to or any number of other torrent curation sites.
The most reliable YouTube downloader I'm aware of is youtube-dl. It works against a heap of other video storage sites as well, including the catch-up TV sites maintained by many broadcasters. By design it's a no-frills command-line tool, so you will need to be a little bit familiar with the Terminal app on your Mac to use it; there are GUI front ends available but I haven't ever used one so can't give you useful recommendations there.
posted by flabdablet at 11:27 PM on June 13, 2019 [2 favorites]
Oh, and seconding VLC for playing anything. I have yet to encounter media that VLC won't play but something else will.
posted by flabdablet at 11:30 PM on June 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 11:30 PM on June 13, 2019 [1 favorite]
VLC May be your lifesaver OP.
I’ve never seen a local video embedded “in” a Word document and I work in academia where Word documents and videos proliferate. People use PowerPoint or create a website for the purpose of embedding video in online text. Maybe it’s do-able but I wouldn’t count on it being easy or scalable. You can create web-ready versions of a PowerPoint deck. Embedding video is simple in PP, or you can use any of many online presentation tools like Prezi.
posted by spitbull at 3:40 AM on June 14, 2019
I’ve never seen a local video embedded “in” a Word document and I work in academia where Word documents and videos proliferate. People use PowerPoint or create a website for the purpose of embedding video in online text. Maybe it’s do-able but I wouldn’t count on it being easy or scalable. You can create web-ready versions of a PowerPoint deck. Embedding video is simple in PP, or you can use any of many online presentation tools like Prezi.
posted by spitbull at 3:40 AM on June 14, 2019
I'm an Android user, but having just looked at my wife's iPad, I see that if you go to Pictures (or maybe Videos if there is one) and select your video, you should be able to find a "get iCloud" link. I presume, without being sure, that you can put that in your Word Document. That will allow users to view a copy of the video that's stored "in the cloud" There may be some place you have to select that it be available to everyone.
This presumes that your device is backed up to iCloud. My wife seems to think this is inevitable, but I don't know.
posted by SemiSalt at 6:07 AM on June 14, 2019
This presumes that your device is backed up to iCloud. My wife seems to think this is inevitable, but I don't know.
posted by SemiSalt at 6:07 AM on June 14, 2019
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