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alissasmith

29 posts since
Oct 2, 2007

Feb 5, 2008 1:50 PM

YouTube Videos

Does anyone know how to download a YouTube video and burn it to a DVD? The reason I am asking is because there are several great clips on YouTube but many schools block this site. How do we get clips burnt to a DVD so that it can be used at school in the classroom?

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hmartin

40 posts since
Oct 3, 2007

1. Feb 14, 2008 11:27 AM

in response to: alissasmith

Re: YouTube Videos

I will check online for instructions. There are free online software programs that you can use toconvert the youTube files but I have never tried them. I will contact my ITRT to see if she knows of a good instructional site as well.

Will have an answer hopefully by 3pm today.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/02/how-to-burn-youtube-videos-to-dvd.htm

See if the above works. I can't test from here because youTube is blocked on our computers.

ag4robin

38 posts since
Nov 14, 2007

2. Mar 13, 2008 10:38 PM

in response to: hmartin

Re: YouTube Videos

I checked that link and it came up as the blog is no longer posted. Any other luck figuring out how to download You Tube clips to your computer? It's a shame you are blocked. With my middle school classes, you tube serves as a great intro to units as well as a basis for some discussions. For example, tomorrow, my eighth grades who are on the environmental science unit and soils will be watching a History Channel clip on worm castings from You Tube and my 7th graders who just dissected a flower today will see a 3 minute clip on the explanation of pollination from Encyclopedia Brittanica. I would love to be able to download them to my hard drive so if the network is every down I can access them.

jfritsch

40 posts since
Oct 2, 2007

3. Mar 14, 2008 11:40 AM

in response to: ag4robin

Re: YouTube Videos

Check out this site. It has a list of 23 web-based and Windows application ways to download YouTube videos to your hard drive. Once they're there, it should be a simple matter to get them onto a DVD. http://mashable.com/2007/05/05/download-youtube-video/ They even talk about a possible work-around for places where YouTube is blocked, although you'd probably be better off just doing your downloading and converting at home. If you're feeling rebellious, though, here's the site with the potential workaround (I'm copying this from their list):

4. YouTube Downloads takes the cake in the longest domain name contest. It also separates itself by using a proxy for downloading videos, which means that you might be able to get videos even if YouTube access is blocked at your workplace or in the country you live. Just search Google for YouTube videos, and copy/paste the URL into YouTube Downloads.

http://www.downloadandsaveyoutubevideos.info/

Hope one of these works.

ccasada@4act

23 posts since
Nov 20, 2007

4. Mar 18, 2008 1:25 PM

in response to: alissasmith

Re: YouTube Videos

I have no experience downloading YouTube videos; however, I did a quick google search and came up with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGoyTIGGHXA I don't know if it works or not, if it tries to upload spyware to your computer, if it requests your email address to send you spam, or if you have to pay for it as a service. And something else you may want to check on is "Do you to check any agreement box with YouTube stating videos cannot be downloaded"? Good luck and hopes this helps. Charles

steveking

1 posts since
Jun 17, 2008

5. Jun 17, 2008 11:21 PM

in response to: alissasmith

Re: YouTube Videos

YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.

YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.

Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.

Product page: http://www.youtuberobot.com
Direct download link: http://www.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
Company web-site: http://www.youtuberobot.com
E-mail: support@youtuberobot.com

jlarison

10 posts since
Jan 5, 2008

6. Aug 9, 2008 10:17 AM

in response to: alissasmith

Re: YouTube Videos

Just ran across this one.... very easy to use, puts videos directly in iTunes when it is done... designed for transition to iPod, but could also just be on a computer to burn or project to a class. It has a mac and pc download.

http://www.tooble.tv/

Also if you need to reduce the size of a video on a Mac I would suggest iSquint. http://www.isquint.com/

Good luck.

-Jason

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