Maybe I should have let you know this first! Anyway, here's how to download a video off my blog:
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1. First, you have to join my video host site. It doesn't cost anything. Just go to http://www.vimeo.com/ and sign up for the "Basic" Vimeo account. As I said it's free and if you have videos of your own it gives you a place to store them just as Picasa or Flicker does with photos. Once you've signed up you can then download the videos.
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2. When you see a video on the blog you wish to download just click on the video title in the upper lefthand corner next to my photo and a new window will open with that video. Scroll down to the lower right hand corner and you'll see "Downloads". You can join Vimeo here if you haven't or log in if you have.
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3. Now right-click on "Download MPG version". Once the small window opens select "Save Target As.." and choose where exactly you want to save it.
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4. Click "Save" and the video will be downloaded to your computer.
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As you can see once you select a video to download they are quite large. Part 5A of the Pancho Bottle Stopper video is 429.7MB!!! I have a DSL line and download at a speed around 5.0mps and it took 15 minutes for that 7 minute video. Yuk!!! I hope to change the way I compress these videos when I upload them to the Vimeo site to where they are not so large and can be downloaded much faster. This will no doubt cut down the quality some but then there are trade-offs in everything I guess. I think the best thing is to just talk the wife, husband, Mom or Dad into letting you buy that new laptop and a wireless router so you can set the computer next to your carving station and bypass all this digital baloney. Oh for the days of the hand-cranked phone! Yes.....I'm that old!
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Anyway, I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for you to enjoy this site more although sometimes it might not seem like it. And don't forget.....I'm always open for suggestions on ways to improve it so your comments are appreciated.
Thanks Lynn!
ReplyDeleteI tried to download the earlier Carving a Cowboy Head Part 1 and was informed that this video wasn't available for download. I would like to put all of the videos in that series in order and save them off.
Do you know why that one is no longer available?
Thanks!
LMiller
Only the videos beginning with this current Pancho Bottle Stopper are available for downloading. Videos before that are not. Sorry. There will be plenty more to come once I get the kinks worked out.
ReplyDeleteIs there an easy way to download one of your photo albums on Picasa? I would love to get some of the larger tutorials, like the horse. I have all the videos, but occasionally I like to refer to just the pictures. I can refresh my memory on the sequence of steps with just a glance using the pictures.
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ReplyDeleteI just wanted to weigh in on the videos and say Thank You...the videos are a priceless learning tool. It takes me several tries to get the look Im after so being able to start, stop, back up etc. with these videos is the ticket ! However you get um here is OK with me.
I do have one question for you though... I too have a cup of coffee at my carving station, does it hurt anything to swallow those chips ???
Did step one, signed up
ReplyDeleteGet to step 2 ran into problems, cannot find "Downloads"
Thanks for all that you do and trying to do for all of us.
bigarm: Read step 2 again. I edited to make it more clear.
ReplyDeleteLynn tried it again, still cannot find downloads. Clicked on your Out West Video tab under hit counter and it showed me all the videos. Watched the Test video with power director. that worked fine.
ReplyDeleteYou're in the wrong area. Just scroll down to the Part 5 post and directly beneath "Heres how to do the ears on Pancho:" you'll see the Part 5 video. Click on that title in the upper left-hand corner. Once the window opens go down to the right hand corner and "Download" should be there.
ReplyDeleteSome of your videos are listed as being available for download and some are not. For instance, the first two or three in the bust carving video are not available for download.
ReplyDeleteOk Lynn Last try for the night. When I click on the video I want "part 5 the ears" I get a your screen starts off Tuesday, Dec 29,2009, Next line title Poncho Bottle Stopper part 5, Next line subtitle "Here's how to do the ears on Poncho" The next line is a big empty 90degree half-box that has some type of icon top left corner, cliking on icon nothing, have clicked all over this page. Just want you to know I am just trying to help
ReplyDeleteOne last comment, From my end all of your videos that you have posted on your blog cannot be seen on the blog. From your first Taking Photo to present. All of your still pictures are there on the blog and can see them. Go to Viemo and ALL videos are there. Can see them there if one is signed up. Thanks again
ReplyDeleteBoy Lynn you sure are right about getting the laptop & wireless router. I have a cable connection so download times are not to long. However, my puter don't like those MP3 files. They download with no sound and freeze the Windows Media Player everytime about 15 seconds into the video. I downloaded several and they all did the same thing. I been saving so maybe it's time for that laptop.
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Terry
hmmmm..... I installed a program a while back that is free http://www.applian.com/asktoolbar/
ReplyDeleteOnc it is installed, there is a Save Video button on your toolbar in Internet explorer. I watch the videos either from the blog or vimeo and then click Save Video. A window opens, you select the video you just watched and click the save icon, which will let you rename it. It saves it as an MP4 file. It also installs flvplayer.exe which can be used to watch these videos. I copy the videos and player to cd or a usb drive and watch them in the garage, without being connected to the Internet. Here's the part that surprised me.... the files I save this way are much smaller than the ones on Vimeo.....Bottle stopper 5a is about a 580MB download from Vimeo that takes 20 minutes or so on a really fast connection. I watched it in about 6 minutes and clicked the Save Video... it is already cached on your PC and it saves to a file that is only 58MB in size. Perhaps there is some difference in the quality, but I couldn't tell! Might be worth checking out, since it seems to save some time.