As a user of MS PowerPoint, you may sometimes need to add a webcam video, e.g., from popular sites like YouTube, Yahoo, Google or iFilm to your presentation. Oops! A frequent problem occurs - the web video cannot be hyperlinked directly to a slide due to Internet block; the downloaded YouTube video is stuck with your presentation. Then, you have to download the web video, often in format of FLV, convert it to a PowerPoint-compatible video file format (e.g., ASF, AVI, MPEG or WMV), and insert the converted video to your presentation.
Here I would love to introduce some free yet easy-to-use software tools and web services, which will help you quickly download and convert videos from YouTube and likewise for using in PowerPoint.
Top Free Software Tools To Download and Convert YouTube Videos for PowerPoint
1. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader + Free FLV Converter
YouTube Downloader + FLV Converter, a free full-functional kit developed by Leawo Software, makes it a cinch for you to download YouTube videos and convert to a PowerPoint-compatible video format. The YouTube Downloader offers fast download of flash videos from YouTube and other videos sites like Google Video, iFilm, Myspace, Dailymotion, etc. Its pal Leawo FLV Converter takes charge of converting the downloaded flash video to PowerPoint-supported AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc. Click here to download the free kit.
For details, see in related tutorial How to Download YouTube Video with Leawo YouTube Downloader
Top Free Web Services to Download and Convert YouTube Videos for PowerPoint
1. Vixy: http://vixy.net/
Vixy is a free web service that serves as an Online FLV converter. With compressed domain transcoder technology, it allows you to download online videos direct to PC / iPod / PSP, as well as to convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos, etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online.
Practice: Submit you video URL. In the Converts to dropdown list, select the exported file format as AVI for your Windows PowerPoint, or MOV for Mac. Click the Start button to start downloading and converting the flash video.
2. Zamzar: http://www.zamzar.com/
Zamzar is another online service that supports free video downloading and converting to another file format. You can use it to download a YouTube video and convert for your PowerPoint presentation.
ZamZar supports conversion between:
Input Video Formats: flv, 3g2, 3gp, avi, , gvi, m4v, mov, mp4, mpg, rm, rmvb, vob, wmv
Output File Formats: avi, wmv, mpg (The first 3 file formats are supported by PowerPoint), 3gp, 3g2, aac, ac3, , flac, flv, gif, MPEG-4 (H.264), mov, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav
Practice: To download a YouTube video, under the Download Videos tab, paste the video URL, choose a file format to convert to, enter your email address to receive converted file, and click the Convert button.
3. Media Converter: http://www.mediaconverter.org/
Media Converter supports many different sources to convert files from one format to another. Here is the complete list:
Websites for free users: blip.tv, break.com, dailymotion.com, facebook.com, livevideo.com, metacafe.com, myvideo.ch, myvideo.de, veoh.com, youtube.com
Suported File formats: 3g2, 3gp, asf, avi, flv, m4v, mkv, mov, mp3, mp4, mpeg, ogg, rm, wav, wma, wmv
Practice: In the conversion wizard, click ‘enter a link’ to type the video link from YouTube. You will see the file info in the task list. Click ‘go to next step’ to continue. Under ‘Select an output file type’, choose the output as asf, avi, mpeg or wmv. You can also customize advanced settings for the output parameters like audio codec, audio bitrate, video codec, video bitrate, duration, resolution, etc. Click OK. Click Start.
Other Free Web Services That Can Download YouTube Videos
1. Download YouTube Video: http://downloadyoutubevideo.org/
Under Youtube Page Link, simply copy and paste the video URL to the input box below to download your favorite YouTube videos.
2. Keep Vid: http://keepvid.com/
KEEPVID supports downloading videos from 40+ online video sites, such as YouTube, Google, iFilm, Putfile, and etc.
To download a YouTube video, copy and paste the URL of video page to the URL field. Click the Download button on the right.
3. Save Vid: http://www.savevid.com/
Save Vid supports to download videos not only from YouTube, but also from the following sites:
Dailymotion, Metacafe, Break, Google video, Veoh, MySpace, Revver, Blip.tv, WeGame, Tangle, 5min, Game Trailers, LiveVideo.com, RuTube, FaceBook, Vimeo, current, Funny Or Die, eHow
To download a video from any of the above sites, simply try these 3 steps:
a. Copy the URL of the video from your browsers address bar.
b. Paste it in the green box above and click ‘download’ button.
c. When your download link is generated just click on it and your download will begin.
4. Kiss YouTube: http://www.kissyoutube.com/
Kiss YouTube gives 2 different methods to download your favorite YouTube videos. See details below:
Method 1
a. Whenever you are watching video on YouTube, goto the address bar at the top of your browser.
Notice the URL is something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMm4XBsqhk
b. Just in front of the youtube.com domain name, insert the word ‘kiss’.
Eg. http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=VKMm4XBsqhk
c. Press the ‘Enter’ key and it will bring you to this website. Click on the download link provided to save the video to your computer.
NOTE: Remember to save your video with “.flv” extension. Eg. some_video_filename.flv.
Method 2
Copy the whole YouTube Video URL (Eg. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKMm4XBsqhk) and paste directly into ‘Enter YouTube Video URL’ field above and hit the ‘Get It’ button.
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