Well, Zamzar used to be a good conversion tool. I had not realized Zamzar was unable to do YouTube videos anymore due to a lawsuit from Google. Zamzar can still convert files, just not YouTube. Thank you to those of you who alerted me to this. I guess that means you are actually reading this stuff! Since zamzar is no longer an option, we need a back up plan, and with thanks to Mrs. Terwee and Curt Vlaminck, we have it. The website is called keepvid and it allows you to convert videos from YouTube into a file to save on your computer. KeepVid actually goes faster than Zamzar did, but it has limited options of what format you want to save your video as. (In the free version). I have provided a couple screen shots of using KeepVid but the basic steps are below: 1. Copy the URL of the youtube video you want to save 2. go to keepvid.com 3. enter the URL in the box at the top. (see screen shot) 4. Click "download" 5. A box will pop up and you will check the "agree" box and click "run" 6. Moments after this, you will be provided with many options for the format you want to save the video as. Ideally, you would get wmv or avi, but they do not offer those formats in the free version. I would recommend selecting MP4. 7. Click on the format you want, and the download will begin. You can then choose where you want to save the video after the download is complete.
**User Request Post** TED is a great website that provides many, many videos. However, some of the videos on TED are quite lengthy. So, its not realistic to show the whole thing, but perhaps we would like to show a part of one. This is certainly possible. With only a few steps, you can have the TED video you desire as a file on your computer, which you can manipulate as you wish. To get a video off of TED onto your computer in a file, follow these steps: 1. Go to www.ted.com 2. Find the Video you want by searching. 3. When the video you want has been found, click it to go to the video. 4. You can simply watch the segment of the video right off of Ted.com or go to step #5. 5. Directly underneath the video, there are options. Click the "download" option. 6. A drop down box will appear and on the RIGHT side of that drop down box, all the way towards the bottom, is the world "download" in red. Right click that world and select "save links as." This will download and save the video to your computer in a mp4. However, Windows movie maker, which is a video editing tool that you can use to get certain clips of the video, does not support mp4, so please continue. Converting your TED video to a format supported by Windows movie maker: 1. open www.zamzar.com 2. step one: select "choose file" 3. step two: select AVI 4. step three: enter your email address 5. After the conversation, an email will be sent to you in which you will receive the link to download your video in the AVI format. Simply click the link and save it to the desire location.
