While there are dozens of online services and software tools out there that help you download videos from YouTube for offline watching, you don’t need their help anymore for downloading your own videos from YouTube.
That’s because Google now allows all video publishers to export their own video clips out of YouTube in MPEG-4 (MP4) format – you can directly play these downloaded in iPod or other video players without conversion.
To download any of your own videos from YouTube, go to My Videos -> Uploaded Videos and look for the "Download as MP4" button next to your video clips as shown in the above screenshot.
This is useful for offline backup of your video or even if you are planning to copy (or even move) videos from YouTube to another video hosting service but don’t have access to the source video files.
The only downside is that these video clips have a 480×270 resolution so they won’t match the quality of your original 720p HD videos.
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Reader Comments
Thanks for good info, till now I do not have my own videos, and for downloading videos to see off line I use grease monkey script.
Written by Madhav Tripathi on 06.18.09
This is great. So, I can quit using Video Downloader Plugins in Firefox Now. Thanks.
Written by DJ on 06.19.09
What is the point in YouTube allowing users to download just their videos? I use all those softwares out there to download the videos I find interesting and not my own ones!!
Written by NoeL on 06.19.09
great upstep on youtube. but so, why won’t youtube place such nice download button on every video page for every viewer?
i’m already tired of all kinds of sniffer toolkit to find out the direct video link and download them, whatever web-based app like keepvid (keepvid.com), or desktop app like apowersoft (video-download-capture.com). maybe they’re useful for most video sharing sites, but youtube could make such feature for us. right?
:=(
Written by jason on 06.19.09
It was about time! I hate not being able to download the videos I uploaded before…
Written by Pattty on 06.19.09
How does this helps, one can always convert his video, and put it in portable media players .. I upload a video and then i can download my video :-) . doesn’t sounds too exiting to me
Written by Gautam on 06.19.09
Well, It has changed video format.
Written by Jay on 06.19.09
It is really good option, instead of installing all kinda junky software and popping here and there in browser or system, this is really best solution. I can avoid all such a tool.
Written by smartwork on 06.19.09
its better to use keephd.com it downloads directly from gooogle server cache which is similar to streaming the video and google won’t oppose this unless you start leeching their bandwidth massively.
Written by krishnana on 06.24.09