Alleycat,
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There are many free (and some pay-for) soft-wares to grab video from popular sites.
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I have to wonder why Allycat would want to edit other peoples work. Unless they have permission from the person to use some of it. I know last year I ask a guy on Vimeo if he would give let me use 10 seconds of a clip he shot. He did give me the ok which I told him I would give him a credit for it. I never end up using it.

Just to let Allycat know if he or she does do that and does not have permission and uploads it to YouTube or Vimeo and the person whos work they used see it. They can have YouTube or Vimeo pull it.

I have download other people work before to just watch on a Big sreen TV and that's it. Intel i7 5960X overclock to 4 Ghz 16 GB of ram.
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Quote: I am a new user with PD12 and would like to know if there is a way to download videos directly from Youtube and Vimeo to edit in PD12?

Keeping in mind what others have said re infringement, and if you use the Firefox browser...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

I personally use flash video downloader for Firefox addon,it lets you save the 1080P videos with audio.

It downloads the video and audio separately and then combine them automatically due to youtube encryption method.

Thank you everyone and no worries about copying stuff. I am a sport Coach and want to clip some sequence of videos of example from youtube to show my athletes, that is all. Just for personal use

I wanna do the same with some DVD I own, they are instructional DVD, can I use either Power Director 12 or Power DVD 13 (I have both) to riup them onto my Computer so I do not have to carry all the DVD's on the road?

Hi AlleyCat -

Just import the VOB file from the DVD & edit it in PD.

Open the DVD and look for the folder VIDEO_TS. Inside that will be the VOB files - VTS_01_1.VOB, VTS_01_2.VOB etc.

You can copy those VOB files to your PC then import them into PD for editing/production.

Cheers - Tony
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Just FYI, there is no Android support for Flash (as I discovered when I tested one of my websites on my phone).

As for copyright infringement, here's a little tidbit for citizens of the USA: anything produced by the government is fair game since it "belongs" to the public. I don't know if that applies in other countries.

Also, according to the Berne convention, everything is automatically copyrighted whether or not the author explicitly says so. Jerry Schwartz