Today we will answer a fairly common question among some users, where the answer is not always so easy to find: how to download long videos of long duration from Youtube in a safe way.
It is likely that on some occasion they have had to be involved in an unexpected project of carrying out a prolonged session of streaming on YouTube.
Whether it is a workshop, an event, a conference, a series of talks, a festival or concert organized locally and with the resources available.
It can happen that we participate actively and end up producing the entire event and launching the streaming that lasts for hours.
But at the end of the transmission we discovered that we do not have access to the account from where we carried out all the production and for this reason it is impossible to download the video from the YouTube Studio.
There are countless sites on the net that in theory would allow you to download videos from the platform. But in many cases the real risk lies in the possibility of contracting some malware or malicious code for our equipment.
Fortunately, there is a way to rescue this material.
So you can download long YouTube videos without endangering your computer
First of all it is essential to issue an obvious warning. The act of downloading YouTube videos using unofficial methods and third-party programs is technically a violation of the platform’s Terms of Service. Although the original video has been produced by us.
So it is essential to be aware that the alternative described here would be an extreme measure and practically a last resort to be able to save that long-lasting video in its maximum possible native resolution.
There is a desktop program on the web, under the name of 4K Video Downloaderdeveloped exclusively to integrate with YouTube and allow the download of videos in High Definition.
The program is available for Windows, MacOS (10.13 or later), and Ubuntu. It is only necessary to enter the site, search for the operating system of our equipment and download.
There is a paid version with more robust functions, but if what we are looking for is to download a long video in FullHD or 4K we just have to follow these steps:
- Go to YouTube and copy the URL of the full-length video.
- Open the 4K Video Downloader program and simply click the “Paste Link” button at the top left corner of the menu bar.
- The app will automatically load the data and start processing the video. When everything is complete, you can choose the download resolution and the video file format.
- We click on the Download button and wait for the process to finish downloading.
This last step can be genuinely lengthy if the video is very long. But in the end we will have the video in its highest possible resolution.