This week I discovered Zamzar. It was love at first conversion. This lovely Web-based app will convert files from one format to another and email ‘em back to you. For a bi-platform girl like me, this is an especially amazing discovery. My Apple prefers .mov files. My PC prefers .wmv. Now I can move ‘em back and forth with no problem. This week I’ve played with my audio and image files as well. It works like a dream. (The software applications I bought and downloaded never worked as well.)
And to top it off, Zamzar’s new url page will convert online videos, from such sites as Google Video or YouTube, to any video file format you like. I just downloaded The Web is Us/ing us for a faculty workshop. This may solve a number of school filtering issues, allowing students and teachers to bring videos they really need into their classrooms and presentations.
From the Zamzar site:
Ever been on a video sharing website and thought “If only I could convert that video into a format I could keep” ? Well look no further - We’ve just launched a whole host of new features to allow you to convert files from URLs, including all your favourite video websites. Zamzar now lets you:
- Convert files from a URL on the Internet
- Integrate Zamzar into your web browser using the Zamzar browser button
- Convert videos directly from sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Revver and many more.
(Of course we all need to pay attention to any copyright restrictions as we download and save video.)
And that’s not all folks . . .
For more cool and geeky 2.0 apps, take a look at this list from the office 2.0 conference!
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Great tool, Joyce! I have a dumb question though…how do I actually find the URL of the YouTube video? With the Machine is Us/ing Us video, for instance, is there a place to right click and bring up the properties?
Yes. Go right to the YouTube page for the video and use that URL in the box that prompts you for a URL in Zamzar.
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