Re: capturing videos from youtube & online video sites by Paul Escandon on Jan 18, 2008 at 8:37:53 pm
There are sites out there that will download and convert the YouTube videos for you. I actually did this for a trailer to a documentary that I was cutting...
Check out http://www.vixy.net - it allows you to type in a YouTube URL and it will convert it to quicktime or different formats for you. You can then work with this in Final Cut.
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Re: capturing videos from youtube & online video sites by Paul Dickin on Jan 18, 2008 at 8:52:37 pm
Hi
Look in Safari's Avtivity window (Window Menu). Option double-click on the movie - down it comes to your hard drive.... Then use Perian's Flash Component, and MPEG Streamclip to manage the conversion to the codec of your choice.
Re: capturing videos from youtube & online video sites by Michael Hancock on Jan 18, 2008 at 11:57:07 pm
tubesock will let you capture youtube videos, but the options of compression are limited. You'd likely have to run them through compressor to make them a FCP friendly format. I don't believe it will work for other sites, though--just youtube. The demo will let you save 30 seconds of video--you can test it to see if it works. If it does and you need longer pieces it's pretty cheap.
Re: capturing videos from youtube & online video sites by Paul Escandon on Jan 19, 2008 at 12:51:29 am
There's no question that the quality suffers - but depending on the project the rough look might actually work. I used YouTube videos to composite on screen multiple news clips all happening at once and overlapping each other - and even though the quality started out low I added some effects and further degraded the images and it ended up looking great.
So it really just depends on how they intend to be used.
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Apple Certified Trainer - Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
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Re: capturing videos from youtube & online video sites by Lee McEachern on Jan 19, 2008 at 8:15:40 pm
I would suggest that you contact the people who shot the YouTube video. You can reach them through the YouTube site.
I recently did a three video series for a large company and I decided to use YouTube videos in one of them. I contacted the YouTube posters, told them what I was doing, and offered them $100 each for the use of their video. In return, each of them sent me their original tapes. I edited them, took them into After Effects to put them in a standard YouTube frame with moving progress bar. They looked great.
This accomplished two things: First, my client was thrilled with the result. Also, the YouTube videographers were proud AND they felt fairly compensated for their work.
If you're making a video for profit I think it is more honorable to do it this way. No matter what you might be able to get away with.
(No criticism is suggested of the original poster. I have no idea how Britney plans to use the YouTube videos.)
