Hi I’m Kurt and welcome to another Friday edition of technewsmadesimple. Today, I’m going to help my friend Amanda who wants to know how you can download YouTube videos onto your computer at home. Well Amanda, that’s very easy. I’m going to show you how.
So, what I have here is an open website, Digg.com and the article is Rick Asthley licensed to Rick Roll on this picture. So I’m going to click this picture here and take a look and you can see here you have Rick face. Place it on top of James’ body, “Never Going to Give You Up” with the 007. So let’s go to YouTube and find this video and let’s search first video. Rick Asthley and let’s search for his video Rick Asthley and just click on this first video here, “Never Gonna Give You Up. The video starts playing and if you look on the right, you have the embedding disabled by request which means you can’t copy this video on another website and you can’t even link to this.
So what I’m going to do is open up a new tab or you can open up a new window. I'm going to go to Keepvid.com and on the top of the page is a blank URL which you can copy from YouTube and paste here to download your video so what we’re going to do is go back to our YouTube tab, copy our URL, paste it here and then Keepvid form and click download. And right away, you get two options you got a low quality and high quality video and we’re going to go for the higher quality. It’s much better and clearer.
So, when I click, we’re going to see a rough file. The only requirement needed is QuickTime which you can actually download from Apple.com and it appears that our video has finished downloading. Let’s open this up and let’s actually open up the YouTube video as well so we can compare side by side as we start this video. Click to play and click to play and you can see the actual downloaded video quality is actually much better than the YouTube video. So you will be able to use this for presentations or for you or for your class.
So I hope you found this site helpful and this is Kurt signing off.
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