A couple of days ago, we started a new kind of content workflow. Initially, we were using YouTube as the video transcoding pass-through. That is to say, we were uploading a video to YouTube from a mobile device (using ShoZu), downloading that video as an FLV, then re-encoding the Flash video as an MP4 file to upload to Blip.TV (for subsequent distribution). We were using Vixy.net and VideoDownloader.net to download YouTube videos – but moving forward, it seems I may be more happy with a free Windows program: YouTube Downloader. It’ll download the YouTube video, then prompt you to re-encode the FLV as MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. Slick!

And if you’d like to give ‘er a shot, try it with any one of the videos we produced this afternoon: