News!! Takeout Immediately Lets Yous Download Your Ain Youtube Videos

This Quick-Tip is nearly accessing your ain YouTube videos, using Google's Takeout / Data-liberation service.

If you lot upload a video using the Blogger Post Editor's video icon, therefore it's stored inward Google Videos - which is forthwith retired except for the component division that hosts vids uploaded thru Blogger.   (This was where they were beingness set  the final fourth dimension I checked, which was a few months ago)

Many people dislike this, as well as prefer to upload their vids to YouTube first, as well as therefore link to the YouTube video from Blogger.  This gives

• Better command over the size of the video you lot display inward your spider web log / website
• Video administration tools (sorely lacking inward Google Videos). 
• Statistics nearly viewers
• The risk to earn coin separately from your spider web log if your video becomes popular
• Access to many to a greater extent than YoutTube features.

This is similar to the recommendation to upload pictures to Picasa independently of the post-editor, as well as putting them into your posts via the URL - it simply gives you lot to a greater extent than control.

Now you tin utilisation Google Takeout to download a re-create of the master copy for videos that you lot get got uploaded to YouTube - without changing the format.   This is unlike to YouTube's download function, which solely lets you lot download a transformed/transcoded version (eg a .wmv I simply checked was available for download from YouTube every bit .mp4).

This tin live on used if you lot are:

• Moving your content away from Blogger / Google
• Transferring a spider web log to a unlike Google account:
  Currently at that topographic point is no means to transfer ownership of a video inward YouTube without changing the link to it, 1 option is to download the master copy video, upload it in 1 lawsuit to a greater extent than using the novel concern human relationship as well as edit the master copy post to betoken to the novel location.

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