Comments on: The Musical Priest http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/07/03/the-musical-priest/ A Catholic Teacher\'s Blog about Faith, Education, Technology, and Miscellanious! Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:32:21 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Chris http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/07/03/the-musical-priest/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Chris Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:51:02 +0000 http://simonsays.edublogs.org/2007/07/03/the-musical-priest/#comment-66 Simon, I never try to use YouTube in class, even though our bandwidth at MSJ seems more robust than that at Trinity... I still prefer to have a standalone file to use from the local hard drive. Take a look at www.vixy.net You just pop in the Youtube URL and choose your format, then it processes the file and spits out a finished video file that you can download to your computer. The other alternative is to use Firefox and install a plugin called Unplug. It let you grab the Youtube video off the page and save it as an .flv file. This works really well if you wanted to use the video in a SmartNotebook presentation because the Smart software plays really nicely with Flash format video (.flv and .swf) Give it a go. Ther is also a converter for Windows called Freez flv2avi (I think) that will convert the .flv file to a Windows .avi video file. But Vixy is probably simpler if you want the same result. Hope that helps Chris Simon,
I never try to use YouTube in class, even though our bandwidth at MSJ seems more robust than that at Trinity… I still prefer to have a standalone file to use from the local hard drive.

Take a look at http://www.vixy.net You just pop in the Youtube URL and choose your format, then it processes the file and spits out a finished video file that you can download to your computer.

The other alternative is to use Firefox and install a plugin called Unplug. It let you grab the Youtube video off the page and save it as an .flv file. This works really well if you wanted to use the video in a SmartNotebook presentation because the Smart software plays really nicely with Flash format video (.flv and .swf) Give it a go.

Ther is also a converter for Windows called Freez flv2avi (I think) that will convert the .flv file to a Windows .avi video file. But Vixy is probably simpler if you want the same result.

Hope that helps

Chris

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