Step 1. Download Free YouTube Download
This is a clearly free program. There is no spyware or adware. It's absolutely safe to install and to run!
Step 2. Launch Free YouTube Download
Follow Start > All Programs > DVDVideoSoft > Programs > Free YouTube Download or click the DVDVideoSoft Free Studio icon on the desktop.
The interface is very simple and self explaining. There is a field for YouTube Video links, a field for an output path, and the Download button.
Step 3. Add YouTube Video Links
Use your Internet browser to select and copy YouTube link you want to download .
Click the Paste button and wait a few seconds while the program is detecting YouTube video.
New! Now besides downloading a single clip the program lets you download collections of videos, like the following ones:
- complete playlists
- video responses
- users' channels
- users' favourites.
It's easy to download the whole playlist, for instance, this Cats playlist.
Just follow Step 3: copy YouTube playlist link and paste it to the program.
The program will detect videos at this link. In the input field you'll see the total amount of detected clips. Click the Videos... button to mark which of clips you want to download. Click OK.
In the same way you can download channels, users' favourites or video responses from YouTube.
Step 5. Select Output Options
Click the Browse... button and choose the location where you would like to save your downloaded video files from YouTube. Click Ok.
There are some parameters in it (Name Prefix, Postfix and others) which you can set as you like.
In the bottom of this window you can see the pattern of the output file name. It's formed according to the current options.
Note: the pattern is the same for all output files during one session, it's not allowed to set the unique pattern for each file.
Step 6. Select Output Format Preset
In the list of Presets select one of the available pre-configured presets.
You can specify the output video file format as FLV, AVI or MP4.
Step 7. Setting Options (Optional)
There are some options you can set as you like.
Tick the "Auto-paste URLs from the Clipboard" parameter and all YouTube links from the Clipboard will be detected and added to the program automatically.
In the Options window you can also change the language or set "Turn off computer, if the process was finished successfully".
Tick "Use proxy server" option to use a proxy server. Then enter Address and Port.
You can find information about proxy Address and Port in your browser settings.
Internet Explorer users go to Tools->Internet Options->Connections tab->LAN Settings...
Firefox users go to Tools->Options->Network tab->Settings...
You can also contact your network administrator for this information.
Step 8. Download Video
When you are ready, click the Download button along the bottom of the interface and wait just a few seconds or several minutes max (depending on your internet connection speed).
Now the YouTube video is on your computer.
Remember: If you selected Option "Turn off computer, if the process was finished successfully", your computer will be turned off when the process is completed.
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