My professor puts videos of her lectures on YouTube but I’d like to view them when I’m offline. How can I save or download those videos from YouTube?
You’ll already have noticed that while YouTube has a lot of different features and capabilities, one thing it doesn’t have is a “download” button. That’s deliberate on the part of Google (the company that owns YouTube), because there are a lot of videos on YouTube that are covered by copyright and other legal protections and are only licensed for online viewing, not saving, archiving or redistributing in other media.
Review the ways you can download YouTube videos for offline viewing, including your own content and videos featured on your favorite YouTube channels. You should be able to watch the movie whenever you want by putting the name in youtube’s search engine. When the video come up you can just watch it like anything else.
Before I proceed, then, I’m going to really emphasize that there are definitely ways to download almost any video from the YouTube site, whether 45 seconds or two hours long, but if you don’t have the legal right to do so and if that’s not something that’s explicitly allowed by the copyright holder, I strongly discourage you from doing so. We clear on that? Good. https://newkr501.weebly.com/picsay-pro-apk-free-download.html.
I recently encountered an interesting situation related to a documentary film about J. Robert Oppenheimer that gave me a chance to explore the options and find a simple – and free – way to download a full movie from YouTube. The film’s called The Day After Trinity and it’s not available for sale anywhere online in DVD format. There are some VHS tapes available through eBay at collector prices, but who the heck still has a VHS player?
Since I wanted to watch the film from my iPad while on an airplane, I decided that downloading the video would be my best option. Here’s how I did it…
To start, a search on YouTube showed a lot of fragments of the film in 10-15 minute chunks, but one person had actually uploaded the entire movie, all 1:28:58 of footage:
I’m not an expert on copyright, so I can’t speak on whether themostdismal‘s claim of fair use is legit or not, but I will note that YouTube’s left it up for over a year, during which time it’s received over 1,000 views, so that should count for something, right? Yeah, I know, that’s fuzzy justification at best. I accept that.
There are a lot of Web sites that offer programs you can download to grab videos off YouTube, but why would you want to install a program when there are Web sites that do the conversion directly? One that seems benign and worked great for my task is the site savefrom.net. Here’s what it looks like:
Before you go there, however, click through so that you can view the lecture video you want to download, then grab the YouTube shortened URL from the address bar.
