This is, without doubt, the most common question that is asked during a teachers’ workshop that I give titled Do YouTube? I recently made an instructional video for TEFLclips that demonstrates the following:
- How to download or ‘capture’ YouTube clips quickly using a website called savevid.com
- Why it can be important to rename the video files on your computer
- How to organise the clips on iTunes
- How to transfer the clips and play them on your iPod (this can be really good for one-to-one classes)
4 responses so far ↓
1 Glennie // Jan 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm
If you have the latest version of Real Player and have said ‘yes’ at the appropriate point during the installation, you should find that when you watch any video, you get the option to save it to Real Player. There, in your ‘Library’ you will have it saved to watch whenever you want.
I don’t know if that is a quicker option than ‘Savevid’.
2 Glennie // Jan 27, 2009 at 9:05 pm
I was actually able to download the vid on this site to Real Player, though this time I had to right click on the vid screen itself to see the download option (with Youtube, it pops up).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/
video/2009/jan/27/global-campaign-for-education
So it is quite a useful option for Real Player ‘owners’.
3 admin // Jan 27, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hello Glennie
That sounds interesting. I noticed the ‘Capture on Real Player’ tab when using YouTube on the computers in an IT room at a school that I worked at last year. Obviously that means that they were equipped with Real Time. A couple of questions:
1. What is the quality of the captured video like. I find that quality varies quite dramatically depending on the application used.
2. I just read on Wikipedia that Real Player can be used in conjunction with iPod. Is this true? I thought that iTunes was the only media player that Apple would allow.
Jamie
4 Glennie // Jan 28, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Quality is good for me from Youtube.
No idea about the iPod I’m afraid.
By the way, the vid did NOT download well to RP from the Guardian page. It looked as though it had but the file was actually empty. (A great deal of time has been lost as a result this morning. :-<) So the feature works well for vids in Youtube but I can’t vouch for other sources.
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