So you’re a fan of those viral videos and YouTube stuff that you’d want to save them for you to view over and over and over. Problem is, there’s no “Save as” function for embedded videos and that YouTube screen would just show Flash Player details. Here’s what you can do:

• Get the Firefox VideoDownloader Add-on

  Add-ons are a great feature of Firefox. It allows you to install small applications (widgets) to work with Firefox to do more tasks that Firefox can’t do alone (yeah, there are quite a handful). Like Firefox, they’re free! The VideoDownloader add-on is one of them. You can get it here.

  And here’s a cool instructional video on how to use it.

• Saving and Playback

  Using VideoDownloader, you’d easily be able to save embedded videos. You can now play them as video files on your PC using your preferred media player.

  If you happen to download Youtube videos, you might be saving FLV files (or VideoDownloader may prompt you to change the file extension as such).

  To play back FLV files offline, you need an FLV player like nFLV Player. It’s freeware!

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You can find different approaches for downloading your favorite videos from YouTube, just by googling it. Here is a new approach for downloading is not only applicable to YouTube, but its applicable to all similar sites like Google videos, Yahoo videos, ifilm, metacafe etc.

It is very simple way of downloading flash videos from internet. Only thing you need to do is to install latest RealPlayer and enable the plugins that are coming for both internet explorer and Firefox (by default these plugins will be enabled).

Once you are done with the installation you need to restart your web browsers and then visit any of the favorite videos in YouTube, Google videos, Yahoo Videos, ifilm, metacafe etc and just keep the mouse pointer over the video that is playing. Now, you will get a menu for downloading that particular flash video using RealPlayer.

Just click and download. Done!. Now you have your favorite video from YouTube in your personal computer. Either you can install free FLV players available or you can install the FLV plugin for Windows Media Player.

Download all New RealPlayer 11.

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Vuvox creates extremely impressive Flash presentations from your videos, photos, music like you've never seen before.

To create your own Vuvox presentation, simply collect the media files into Vuvox from your hard drive or pull them direct from the web (Flickr, YouTube, PhotoBucket, etc), choose one of the 3D styles and publish.
The final presentation will look stunning though it took only couple of minutes if not seconds to create it from scratch.

In one of the styles, your pictures and videos appear on the branches and leaves of a tree and they grow as you add more media. Another style reminds me of the Microsoft Coffee computer table - you move, resize and rotate pictures on the computer screen with your mouse instead of your fingers.
Each presentation can be viewed directly on the Vuvox website or you can embed them in web pages. If you have to showcase you portfolio to clients, look no further than Vuvox. Presentation does matter.

www.vuvox.com/

Labels: Online Tools, Photo, Video

Democracy Video Player is an absolute gem of an application that has all the potential to replace Windows Media Player or Apple iTunes on your computer.The software is absolutely free and available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Since it uses the popular VLC Media Player, it can play virtually all video formats from MOV to Windows Media to iPod MP4.

And here's a little known but extremely feature of Democracy Player that makes it unique among all other media players - you can use Democracy to search or download videos from YouTube, Google Video, Blip.tv, Revver and many other video sharing websites.

You can also pause and resume video downloads. The videos can also be saved on del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit right from within the Democracy interface.

Democracy will automatically watch for new videos tagged with your keyword -- when a new video is found, it'll be automatically downloaded to your computer.

Download Democracy Player 0.9.5.2

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Flash Video is the name of a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. The most recent public release of Flash Player supports H.264 video and HE-AAC audio. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video, MySpace, and many television news operations are also using Flash Video on their websites.

Flash Video is viewable on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin, or one of several third-party programs such as MPlayer, VLC media player, Quicktime, or any player which uses DirectShow filters (such as Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, and Windows Media Center) when the ffdshow filter is installed.

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Photo Story 3 for Windows is an excellent tool from Microsoft to convert or to say express your photos and images as video. Photo Story 3 gives you a very user friendly interface, that will let you narrate your story with photos and images.


Photo Story 3 offers lot of cool features

• This will let you import images as group.
• You can adjust color level and correct the red eye in images.
• It allows you to give lot of effects like black and white, sepia, washout, negative and diffuse glow and heading to each photos.
• You can even customize the time of motion in each photos.
• Even this will allow you to put background music to your video story, either by selecting a pre-existing one or by creating by itself.
• You can even create the video album for your Smart Phone or Pocket PC with Windows Media Player 10 Mobile or even for Portable Media Center.

Photo Story 3 is a great tool that will let you create a video album from your static photos of an event. This will be very much helpful if you wish to create your marriage video album from your marriage photos. Here is a tutorial from Microsoft that will explain you how to make wedding photos to a wedding memories video album.
[ Download Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows ]

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