Youtube in ProPresenter 4

[jeffjams]

Totally dumb question.

I have been using Easyworship and we are switching to ProPresenter and have a quick dumb question.

Are you able to play youtube videos directly through ProPresenter 4 (like EasyWorship) or do you need to somehow extract the video from youtube and import it within ProPresenter?

Thanks a ton You guys are awesome

[Natepelzel]

As for playing videos directly from YouTube, I'm not sure. But I would definitely recommend downloading the files anyway, even if you could play directly from YouTube. I feel a lot safer when I do it that way because there's no risk of lag or losing connection. Savevid.com is the service I use. All you do is paste the YouTube URL into the field on the site, and it gives you several download links of different qualities.

Hope this helps,

Nate

[rbcsound]

We've been trying out a ProPresenter demo, and you can play YouTube videos in PP using the built-in web browser. Like Nate, I would feel much better downloading the videos and importing them, though.

If you use Firefox, you can install the add-on "Download Helper" to download videos from YouTube and other sites. There's also one called "Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV" that works very well.

[TomandPen]

As stated above, you can play YouTube videos or any other web-based media directly through PP. We do download them though because of the lag time we've experienced in the past. In a pinch (the Pastor gives us a link for the 9:00 service at 8:58 ) they can be played directly through PP.

[yeshua]

Just checked out that savevid.com....didn't try it, just went to there main page....looks like it shows what people are downloading....and one of the pictures I saw on the website was a girl with no clothes.....so watch out if use that one I'd say....we don't need our minds wondering....

I've used http://www.mediaconverter.org/ to save videos many times, unfortunately it only works with videos of 100mb or less....This week our pastor wants to play a 10 minute long video (probably just a clip)....but it wouldn't download it as it was too big...so I went on the hunt....I found http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php....on Mac this link seems to work perfectly fine, no ads, viruses etc. On PC I'm not totally sure if you would get some virus or something....the site just looks too basic to not have something in the background....but if I find something I'll post....but anyways, just put in the link at the top and right click - save - on the link that shows up...nice and simple....

The good thing about downloading it is that there is no loading wait time....you play it through the ProP web browser and theres gonna be the problem of loading the video, unless you have a really good connection....

If you know about it ahead of time, download it....

[jeffjams]

Thanks for everyones help, I also found out you can use keepvid.com. You just paste the Youtube video into it and are able to download it in several file formats. From there you just drag it to Pro Presenter and whalla.