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YouTube let’s you download your uploaded videos. I’ve never tested it, but supposedly it’s the exact same file you uploaded.[a] It probably wouldn’t work with t
by colejohnson66 4y ago
YouTube let’s you download your uploaded videos. I’ve never tested it, but supposedly it’s the exact same file you uploaded.[a] It probably wouldn’t work with this “tool” as it uses the video ID (so I assume it’s downloading what clients see, not the source), but it’s an idea for some other variation on this concept.
[a] That way, in the future, if there’s any improvements to the transcode process that makes smaller files (different codec or whatever), they still have the HQ source
- mod50ack 4y agoThey may retain the original files, but they don't give that back to you in the download screen. I just tested it by going to the Studio screen to download a video I uploaded as a ~50GB ProRes MOV file and getting back an ~84MB H264 MP4.
- reassembled 4y agoYouTube doesn’t serve ProRes though. What if you try uploading an h264 video and re-download?