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Software to record video from anywhere? YouTube website
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Recording videos from websites not just YouTube. For instance some university classes don’t offer recordings of a class so would like to record them for review
Check this:
ClipGrab - YouTubeなどの動画サイトから、動画をダウンロード & 変換
ClipGrabは、YouTubeやVimeoなど数多くの動画サイトから、動画をダウンロード & 変換するフリーソフトウェアです。
If you're comfortable with the command line (the Terminal app on MacOS), try Youtube-DL (https://youtube-dl.org/). This useful app works on many sites, not just YouTube. I'd recommend installing via a package manager like Homebrew (https://brew.sh/).
Also, for some sites, you may be able to download the video using just the web browser by right clicking. You may need to right click twice or temporarily disable javascript in some instances.
If the videos you’re interested in are available after their emission, tools like Downie or the above mentioned YouTube-DL could be pretty useful. And I’m sure there are more alternatives to download videos from a site.
However, if what you want is to “capture” live emissions, live streamings that won’t be available later on the site, those tools won’t probably help you. On those cases, I would suggest the system screen recording tool.
If you need to use screen recording on you iPhone or iPad (available in the control center, just go to the control center settings and add the screen recording icon), with or without audio, the tool gives you a pretty neat .m4p file which is not small but isn’t huge either.
If you opt for the macOS screen recording tool, whether the one in QuickTime, or the one from the screen capture menu (CMD+Shift+5), you can get a big big file if the recording takes 30, 40 minutes or more.
In this cases, if you end up with a 2GB or even bigger file, my suggestion is to use Handbrake to turn this big file into a much smaller one.
At least, that’s my workflow when I need to screen record something.
However, if what you want is to “capture” live emissions, live streamings that won’t be available later on the site, those tools won’t probably help you. On those cases, I would suggest the system screen recording tool.
If you need to use screen recording on you iPhone or iPad (available in the control center, just go to the control center settings and add the screen recording icon), with or without audio, the tool gives you a pretty neat .m4p file which is not small but isn’t huge either.
If you opt for the macOS screen recording tool, whether the one in QuickTime, or the one from the screen capture menu (CMD+Shift+5), you can get a big big file if the recording takes 30, 40 minutes or more.
In this cases, if you end up with a 2GB or even bigger file, my suggestion is to use Handbrake to turn this big file into a much smaller one.
At least, that’s my workflow when I need to screen record something.
With "User-Guided Extraction" (Command + E) you'll probably fine on most sites.
The only time it didn’t work, was on a DRM’ed source from our public broadcaster NPO, for which I had to use an online tool. But that speaks for itself.
Thanks for everts help! After reading all the replies and my needs I really need the ability to record non Yourube. Ideas more than any else.
With that said it seems like I need screen recording software to record and video played on any site that I am viewing.
Am I correct on this assumption?
With that said it seems like I need screen recording software to record and video played on any site that I am viewing.
Am I correct on this assumption?
I think they want to rip the video straight from the source not screen record it bootleg style
Even if it doesn’t satisfy the op, thanks to you and others for recommending Downie. I had not come across this app before and it well matches my video download needs.
I use this: https://www.neatdownloadmanager.com/index.php/en/
If you're using Safari, you have to enable the extension with developer mode. Or if you use Chrome or Firefox or something, you can just download the extension. But this lets me download videos from most websites. It's basically a knock off version of Internet Download Manager from Windows. The UI is not pretty, but it gets the job done.
If you're using Safari, you have to enable the extension with developer mode. Or if you use Chrome or Firefox or something, you can just download the extension. But this lets me download videos from most websites. It's basically a knock off version of Internet Download Manager from Windows. The UI is not pretty, but it gets the job done.
Snagit does a screen capture, rather than a URL downloader. It allows you to capture just about anything. Only annoyance is that you have to select what you want to capture and then play it to the end to capture in realtime. Can't do much else during the capture since if you accidentally move something into the capture area it be recorded. Same thing for any popup messages. Web downloaders don't have that issue.
As I posted earlier, I purchased Downie from the recommendations. A feature I like is that videos can be downloaded even from complex webpages by the “user guided extraction”. I have some training videos through a paid website (which I have subscribed to) that normally cannot be downloaded, but now I can keep offline copies. It’s a really great app.
OP wrote in post 3 above:
"Recording videos from websites not just YouTube. For instance some university classes don’t offer recordings of a class so would like to record them for review"
You're talking about two completely different tasks here.
If you want to download pre-posted videos from YouTube, try "ClipGrab" which is free.
But if you're trying to record "live" video (from live, real-time presentations), you need a different kind of app.
There is something called "Audio Hijack", but that can only grab live audio (no video).
Question for all:
Is there something that does what Audio Hijack does, for video AND audio?
"Recording videos from websites not just YouTube. For instance some university classes don’t offer recordings of a class so would like to record them for review"
You're talking about two completely different tasks here.
If you want to download pre-posted videos from YouTube, try "ClipGrab" which is free.
But if you're trying to record "live" video (from live, real-time presentations), you need a different kind of app.
There is something called "Audio Hijack", but that can only grab live audio (no video).
Question for all:
Is there something that does what Audio Hijack does, for video AND audio?
Finally, someone who understood the same as me!
To answer your question, I could just quote my previous reply, but I’ll just say: the system’s (iOS, iPadOS, macOS) recording tool, can both record the screen AND external/internal audio. If you disable the mic for the recording, then you’ll capture the video AND the audio.
The only downside is that resulting files, especially on macs with Retina display, can end up being pretty big, but nothing that HandBrake can’t solve.