Ripping a youtube video for audio cleanup in Izotope REX
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 212 posts since 28 Aug, 2008
So long story short, I have a friend who had a video recorded of her speaking for a professional setting, and the people who recorded it have put it on youtube. The audio is pretty bad though--lots of echo in it. I think I could clean up the audio using Izotope, but I'd need to extract it first from youtube. (The people who recorded her are not easy to get ahold of apparently, and so she doesn't have access to the .mov file or whatever it is that they used.)
So two dumb questions. Short of just running a line out from one computer to another, is there an easy/safe way of getting the audio out of a youtube video? I see that there are a lot of dodgy online places that say they will do this for me, but they well, look dodgy, and I don't want a virus on my mostly isolated from the internet music computer.
Second, should I try to get a high quality .wav file or something similar, or given that it is already on youtube and so probably data compressed, would an mp3 be sufficient?
Thank you!
So two dumb questions. Short of just running a line out from one computer to another, is there an easy/safe way of getting the audio out of a youtube video? I see that there are a lot of dodgy online places that say they will do this for me, but they well, look dodgy, and I don't want a virus on my mostly isolated from the internet music computer.
Second, should I try to get a high quality .wav file or something similar, or given that it is already on youtube and so probably data compressed, would an mp3 be sufficient?
Thank you!
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- KVRAF
- 7730 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
I had decent results using the MediaHuman apps, not every video worked (I guess privacy settings or something) but most did, up to the best quality available (still 320kbps?) Ultimately it'll grab the audio at whatever quality it's up at for you to then process further.
https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3/
https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3/
- KVRist
- 432 posts since 13 Sep, 2004
YouTube-dL from GitHub and Audacity. Both free. Remember that you can only have the maximum quality that YouTube allows.
- KVRAF
- 2063 posts since 22 Sep, 2016
I would recommend https://freetubeapp.io/. It's a free youtube client for windows, mac and linux.
It allows for watching youtube without ads and you can make a backup copy of videos and sound files directly from the client.
It allows for watching youtube without ads and you can make a backup copy of videos and sound files directly from the client.
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- KVRAF
- 2548 posts since 13 Mar, 2004
- KVRian
- 670 posts since 7 May, 2002 from Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Alternate front ends for youtube with download button on a video's page, though it seems for high quality the audio and video are separate downloads: https://api.invidious.io/
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- KVRAF
- 3508 posts since 12 May, 2011
This works for me.
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader/1
https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader/1