{"id":11354,"date":"2010-04-29T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/ask-onsoftware-downloading-hd-video-from-youtube\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:14:11","slug":"ask-onsoftware-downloading-hd-video-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ask-onsoftware-downloading-hd-video-from-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask OnSoftware: Downloading HD video from YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a question from reader Dave about<strong> downloading high definition video from<\/strong> <strong>YouTube<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I can download almost all videos on the net into .flv files and convert them to .MOV for use in Final Cut Pro, except HD. When I choose the HD settings on YouTube it goes right to a screen that plays the video in HD but I can&#8217;t download it in HD. Any suggestions?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes! There are lots of ways to download video from YouTube, and one extension I know allows you to download HD FLV files is<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/12984\">Download Youtube Videos +<\/a><\/strong>. This <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox-3.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Firefox<\/strong><\/a> add-on puts a toolbar in the browser which flashes whenever video is available to download. It&#8217;s available to download <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/12984\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, and Firefox has been restarted, go to your YouTube page and choose the video quality that you want from the pop-up menu on the video player.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/04\/ask1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once chosen, simply click the flashing Save Video button on the toolbar, and a menu will drop down. There will be more than one file available to download, but basically if you want the <strong>highest definition<\/strong>, choose the <strong>biggest file<\/strong>! This will be downloaded to the same location as all of your Firefox downloads, ready for use whenever you want.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please email us at: <a href=\"mailto:ask@onsoftware.com\">ask@onsoftware.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had a question from reader Dave about downloading high definition video from YouTube: &#8220;I can download almost all videos on the net into .flv files and convert them to .MOV for use in Final Cut Pro, except HD. When I choose the HD settings on YouTube it goes right to a screen that plays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/ask-onsoftware-downloading-hd-video-from-youtube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ask OnSoftware: Downloading HD video from YouTube&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334981,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/334981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}