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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:

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For people having seen the light ;) I mean, being on a mac ;) There is a series of cool apps from the guys at eCamm.com that allows to record Skype, iChat, …

Sorry bad link in the last comment : eCamm.com has the right href ;)

Ciao from Italy !
No, no.. I am not Tony Soprano :)
I am the author of Youtube Downloader and I am happy that the program is useful.

If you have suggestions like improving the software….

Thanks Chris ;)

Opssssss.. We find ourselves to the BadaBing! :)))))))

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org

Wow. I’ll check it out.
I’ve been using Ook! a firefox extension, for downloading
and then converting the flv’s with Super
Are your downloaded videos via videodownloader as high quality as doing it the hard way?

Not bad.

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