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Firstly you need to know everything about Youtube and Vimeo which you can get it on our previous post: Everything you need to know about Youtube and Vimeo.
1. Find some HD video
We’ll stick with YouTube for the time being,
because it’s increasingly packed with HD video. If you’re not sure whether
something is HD or not, click on the Settings icon – the gear shape in the
bottom right hand corner of the video – and you’ll see an option labelled
Quality. Many videos default to Auto 360p but if you click on that you’ll see
the other available options, which in this case include 720p HD and 1080p Full
HD.
Not everything labelled HD is actually HD.
Sometimes that’s because people don’t know what they’re doing, so they’ll
export a 360p clip at 1080p resolution, and sometimes it’s because people are
trying to game the system by making promises they can’t keep.
2. Copy and paste the link
Once you’ve found your video, paste the link
into your downloader. In this case we’re using 4K Video Downloader, which is available for both PC and Mac, and which automatically
grabs the copied link when you click on the Paste Link button. When you enter
the link you’ll be given a range of options for downloading. We want the 1080p
version, so that’s what we’ll choose.
It’s worth noting that some downloaders don’t
offer 1080p, others only do if you pay for a Pro version, and still others
won’t download videos that have a musical soundtrack – presumably because of
copyright fears.
3. Make a cup of tea
Downloading takes time, especially when it’s HD:
a few minutes of HD video will take up around a gigabyte of space.
4K Video Downloader has the ability to download
multiple streams simultaneously to improve download speeds, but ultimately it’s
a lottery: some downloads come down the tubes at high speed, others not so
much. On our super-speedy fibre connection, one of our YouTube downloads
crawled at 584kbps.
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