Video Grabbers

Craig Bumgarner

Looking to download Youtubes and convert to .mov or .mp4 for use with Transcribe! for tuition. Any current favorite solutions? I find much of what is available is either outdated or packaged with spyware. I tried a Foxfire extension for instance, work great, once. After that, it locked up Foxfire, had to disable extension and restore Windows to set point to get Foxfire running again.

I'd be interested in what is working for others.



Craig

kevingcox

I use firefox download helper. I have never had an issue with it that I couldn't easily work around (streaming video is a bit tricky, but I can make it happen).

Good luck.

-Kevin

Craig Bumgarner

Which download helper do you use?

A friend sent me links to two on-line downloaders. Both worked good for me just now, the second one was faster & simpler.

http://www.flvto.com/
http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-mp4

Lango-Django

I'd like to know more about Transcribe!--- can it provide guitar tab, for instance?

I've been using QuickTime, which can be downloaded free--- is Transcribe! better? If so, how?

Will
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON

kevingcox

It is literally called DownloadHelper (4.9.5 is the version I have installed). http://www.downloadhelper.net

I tried a few of those online ones like what you linked to and I found them a little cumbersome with the amount of clicking.

I know very little about transcribe, but I doubt it creates tab automatically, that just seems too easy. If you're talking about slow down software, I use the amazing slow downer. It has the best sound of all the ones I have tried, and the iPhone app might even sound better than the full computer version I have.

Best of luck,

Kevin

klaatu

Lango-Django wrote:

I'd like to know more about Transcribe!--- can it provide guitar tab, for instance?

I've been using QuickTime, which can be downloaded free--- is Transcribe! better? If so, how?

Will
Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON

No, it does not provide tabs, it simply allows you to slow the music down so YOU can transcribe it. Transcribe and Amazing Slow Downer also have loop and pitch change functions that you don't get in Quicktime. The best thing for you to do is download the trial versions and see which one you like best (I prefer ASD myself).