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This is what iTunes looks like when it has been set up to play downloaded YouTube clips:
For teachers who take a laptop into class, downloading or ‘capturing’ YouTube clips and playing them on iTunes is an excellent way of organising the videos that you use with your students.
In the clip below, I explain how it is done:
I don’t have a laptop, so I often save a resource to pendrive and use the classroom computer. However, I haven’t been successfull in saving youtube videos to pendrive or disc. Can it be done?
thanks
How can I suscribe to these clips and get them on my ipod?
Jamie,
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this to us - this is going to be sooooooooooooooooooooooo good for our training sessions.
Keep up the great work.
Kind regards
Julie Cummings-Debrot
Freelance Trainer - France
Jamie,
Fantastic site and great advice about downloading, just got Splurg April fools lesson with 2 videos all set up for Thursday’s lesson. Really easy to do following your advice.
I will look forward to exploring your lesson ideas more and using videos in class more.
You’re a star and have a lovely voice! Thank you.
Tamara
Freelance in company teacher in Barcelona.
I tried to download to savevid using your how to but as soon as I click on mp4 a new window opens that tells me an HTTP 403 error has occurred. any suggestions on how I could get this sorted. I teach and found that I keep kids’ attention when I use video clips, so I think this would be very helpfull.
thanks for the great tip and hope to get the problem sorted.
Dawn
Jamie,
To show a clip in PowerPoint you need to be able to see the ‘Developer/Controls’ toolbar - in versions of PowerPoint prior to 2007, right-click in an available space on current toolbars and try to turn on the toolbar called ‘developer’ or ‘controls’. In PowerPoint 2007, click the main PowerPoint icon (top left when you have the program running), then PowerPoint Options, then ‘Show Developer tab in the ribbon’.
Now, on the Developer tab or the toolbar, look for an icon that looks like a hammer sitting on top of a spanner. Click that and scroll down until you see ‘Windows Media Player’. Click and OK, then use your mouse to draw a copy of Windows Media Player on your slide.
Right-click the new media player interface and choose ‘Properties’. Then ‘Custom’ and you should then be able to browse to a video clip on your computer and choose it. From there you can also choose if it plays automatically, etc.
Also, ensure you have all the right codecs installed. Windows XP codec packs can be found here:
And Vista codec packs here:
The codecs are used to decodify video formats. The above process works for me, though it’s hardly an intuitive way of doing it - after a couple of goes it becomes second nature.
Dawn,
You tried to save a YouTube file about two days after they changed the way YouTube references the mp4 versions of the videos. Try again, but give this site a go:
Gavin
Jamie,
Thank you for publishing this. It would have taken me forever to figure out how to do it on my own.
Aimee
what i do is to use save2pc (that’s the name of the program i downloaded for free) then you copy and paste the URL in the blank space and that’s it. very easy
if using Firefox, try Download Helper at http://www.downloadhelper.net/
Something to say?
How can I download and play if I don’t have itunes? How do I import and use in a ppt presentation?
thanks
Left by joanne on January 23rd, 2009