Need help downloading video

[greendj]

I am creating a family tree DVD, using iMOVIE, and have found some excellent historic video on youtube.com and google.com that I would like to download and move to the iMOVIE application. Is there a way to download video to my eMAC. Someone once showed me how but I forgot.

This is not for re-sale or anything illegal. I just want to re-use some existing historic video.

dan

 

[barcodebawtv]

zamzar.com

I am creating a family tree DVD, using iMOVIE, and have found some excellent historic video on youtube.com and google.com that I would like to download and move to the iMOVIE application. Is there a way to download video to my eMAC. Someone once showed me how but I forgot.

This is not for re-sale or anything illegal. I just want to re-use some existing historic video.

dan

I love this website http://www.zamzar.com It will let you convert any file type to another. You just copy and paste the URL on youtube to their URL page and select to convert it to a Quicktime or .mov (I can't remember how they word it.) I seriously use it very regularly for this very thing.

 

[greendj]

Downloading video

Thanks for the quick reply. Cool site. However, I just tried to convert a URL to an MP4 file (to import into iMOVIE), and I got the following error:

Error: Upload at least one file before trying to convert

Have you seen this? Not sure what do do....

 

[barcodebawtv]

"Add URL"

Yeah, you enter the URL in the "Step 1" box then click the "Add URL" button right next to it. Then move on to step 2

 

[greendj]

Re:

You are the best 'barcodebawtv'. I wasn't hitting 'Add URL'. What a doof. Thx so much. Hope I can help you sometime.

Dan

 

[greendj]

Re:

I just realized my email address will not allow such a large file to be sent to it from http://www.zamzar.com. Size limitation. Wonder how I can get around that. are there email systems out there that will accept file sizes for 10's or 100's of megs?

 

[greendj]

I figured it out.

Ok, I realized that zamzar.com doesn't email the file to me. It emails a notification that I need to retrieve my file from their site. AWESOME!

Thanks barcodebawtv!