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#1 User is offline   KatieKat Icon

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Posted 17 August 2008 - 10:16 AM

How can I save video (such as youtube clips) to my computer? I don't want to just save the link to the video. I want to save the entire video so when the video is taken off the Internet, I will still have it on my computer.
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Posted 17 August 2008 - 06:12 PM

Try TubeTV.
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Posted 18 August 2008 - 05:58 AM

Katie, I use SafariStand, free from:

http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

If you see a video I'd like to capture, wait until it finishes loading (the
progress bar is all the way to the right), put the cursor on the video,
and press command-click. If the video is download-able (some are
not), it'll come into your default Safari download folder as an FLV
file. You can convert it to a more Mac-friendly form with the
free iSquint (from iSquint.com) or its big brother VisualHub ($).
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Posted 19 August 2008 - 07:41 PM

Hey, that TubeTV rocks.

I just downloaded it, and can see that it'll be MUCH easier for converting and importing recorded videos from sites such as YouTube directly into iTunes, without much fuss or muss (you can set TubeTV prefs to convert to iPhone format, delete the old flv, and import it into iTunes as a TV Show. The only thing it can't do is put the video creation date on the title of the file, or add the title of the show? I can do that manually in iTunes, I guess).

So I'm kicking myself, as I paid $99 for Replay Media Capture Suite, a group of programs that lets me accomplish the same task(s), albeit with much more work (it's a Windoze-only program that runs under XP; I'm running VMware Fusion). I have to use iSquint afterwards to get it into iPhone format.....

"Free" and "easy" sure beats $99 and laborious any day!
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 08:26 PM

Thank you so much!!! TubeTV worked. It's a little awkward or else I just don't know exactly how it works and just sort of fumble through but I've always been able to get it to work. Thanks!!
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