Though there are pretty a few software tools
and apps available that let you download videos from YouTube for offline
watching, you don’t really need them anymore if you are looking to download
your own videos from the YouTube website.
The easiest way to download an person
YouTube video click is through the Video
Manager. Click the Edit button next to a video that you wish to
download and choose “Download MP4″ from the dropdown.
This
method has been around for a while now but the one big limitation is that the
quality of the downloaded videos isn’t the same as your original clips. Your
720p and 1080p HD video will be saved at 480p.
If this
lone control has been keeping you from hosting any of your videos on YouTube,
worry no more. You now have an option to download all your YouTube videos in
their original resolution. Here’s how:
1.
Go to google.com/takeout and
click the Create Archive button. Google will now create a zipped archived with
all the videos that you have ever uploaded to YouTube.
2.
Once the archive says 100%, proceed to the
Downloads tab to grab the actual files. If the archive is large, Google Takeout
will split them into individual files of 2 GB each.
3.
The downside is that you have to download the
entire archives – there’s no option to download individual video in high
resolution.
4.
That said, if you are planning to copy videos
from YouTube to Vimeo or another video hosting service but don’t have access to
the source video files, you’ll find this new option extremely handy.
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