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Chienworks wrote on 12/19/2007, 10:52 AM
Often if you view the page source you can find a link to the actual .mov or .wmv file. Copy that link and paste it in your brower's address bar. After it loads you'll be able to use the browser's save as command.

Mozilla/Netscape makes this easier with the View / Page info option. Click the Media tab and you can look through that to find the video link much easier than reading through the whole page source.
bStro wrote on 12/19/2007, 10:56 AM
First, she might want to just ask those that interviewed her if she can get a copy (on tape of DVD) directly from them. Might not be any need for computer tomfoolery.

If that's a no-go, there is probably a way to simply download the video rather than capturing it (which would essentially involve re-encoding the video, likely introducing new artifacts). Some video links simply lead directly to the file to be played, in which case you can just right-click the link and choose Save [rest of option varies by browser]. Others are embeded in some kind of player, possibly on a secure server of some kind -- but even those can be bypassed given the right tools or just a bit of digging for the right URL.

If you give us the URL to see your wife's video, I suspect someone will be able to tell you how to download the file for it.

Rob
CClub wrote on 12/19/2007, 2:15 PM
One option is this http://audials.com/en/rs_audials/index.htmlSoftware[/link]. I just purchased the whole group of software for $66, and one of the software pieces included is Videoraptor -- which is what you're looking for. You just type in a url or keywords, and it'll download any clips. You also get a much improved version of Tunebite and a program that gets you any podcasts or music played on the Internet.
Tom Pauncz wrote on 12/20/2007, 12:10 PM
Thank you for all your responses.

Kelly - I tried all I know to get at the raw video file without luck. It's streaming and that's that. I believe I know my way around under the covers ... :-)

Rob - same as above. Tried all I know to get at the file.

CClub - Tried Videoraptor and there's no way i could find to play the vid and have the URL show up in Videoraptor. It does look like an interesting product, though.

I ended up using the free Camtasia to capture the playing the video in its original size and used Camtasia to output it as an AVI file that Vegas understood. I then encoded it to Flash with ON2 FlixPro. Looks great!.

It wasn't worth pursuing the ' get the vid from German TV' as she was on camera for the segment for less than 30 secs. I just wanted to get it for personal reasons.

Tom
Sidecar2 wrote on 12/20/2007, 12:18 PM
Camtasia 5 works great for me. Captures flash playback from YouTube or full screen playbacks like the http://www.scroogeyourself.com/ gimmick.