Looking for a recommendation of an easy to use all in one program that can download and convert YouTube Videos to an AVI file. I've seen some that are online but they only allow for you to do shorter videos. I'm looking for something that will allow for hour plus long videos.

I've tried to download two different programs so far. The first wanted to load a bunch of other stuff onto my puter and the second one ended up being a trial that wouldn't let me download the total file. Any Ideas or recommendations?

So I have no idea if it's okay for me to post this, but I'm looking for a video that was posted possibly about a year ago, of a group of guys sneaking into a tall building which is under construction. I seem to recall that they're not speaking English, and it's possibly set in Europe. The only other detail I remember is they make it to the top and plant a sticker. Can anyone help me out?

It's very minimal work. Cute is eternally subjective and adorable. Come, take the reigns and ride *cute into that eternal sunset.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding it's intention, I think VideoSift need to educate its members on the proper use of *related invoke.
Too often I see idiotic things like http://videosift.com/video/Its-a-Wonderful-Life-Bridge-Scene#comment-1625506 and http://videosift.com/video/A-fast-and-funny-way-to-put-on-a-swim-cap#comment-1620316
This site has 2 different ways to groups videos: "Channels" and "Tags".
If you want to link 2 videos together based on the common topic, use channels and/or tags.
If 2 videos are literally related, ie 2 parts of an interview or a full episode and a short clip, use related invocation.
But don't use *related because 2 videos just happen to have a fucking bridge in them!
Another example are "True Facts" videos. They should not be marked as related. When you submit videos they should have proper tags and channels so that I can click on http://videosift.com/tag/zefrank or http://videosift.com/tag/true+facts and find all of them.

Pay here, play here. Sidebars and pop-ups??-Cool. Any viddies with auto-play, adverts, or shit already paid for with labor-coupons for the pipeline to happiness?... Fuck that noise.

We all have to look at billboards and marquis along beautiful concrete or landscaping rather than interactive bio-organic-mechanized-happy-structures everywhere, all-fucking-day. Why bother here, when all it gleans is some network coke-addict's drivel, an other network-wannabee's aspiring to similar heights of drivel, or other talent-free *Fuckazoids attempting to make you lazier with a buck at-the-same-time for themselves and other cunts who fuck-off doing dick as well by making you stupider ??

It's a vicious goddamn cycle that has to stop somewhere already...GRRRR!

Get ready and please subscribe to a, from-the-hip down-vote attitude for any embedded videos with mandatory adverts. Band + Wagon =

If not ,fuck off I'm gonna do it.

*pending urban dictionary term

"rabble, rabble, rabble..."

I know that VideoSift tries to be at least minimally family friendly (marking videos NSFW, not allowing porn embeds, etc.) SO I was a little shocked when I noticed this today: On the right hand column between the top 15 posts and the Beggar's Canyon are the Facebook links to Videosift's Facebook page and a couple of pictures from profiles that have 'liked' Videosift.

Unfortunately, one of those profiles has their profile picture with a woman leaning in close to a rather outsized piece of the male anatomy. Thinking surely it must just be a joke and the small picture makes it hard to see what is really there, I decided to click through. Suffice it to say that it was exactly as I first perceived it.

I have no idea about stopping certain profile pics from showing up on the front page or 'unliking' a 'liker' but I thought I would bring it to the Sift's attention anyway.

If I knew how to attach a picture, or if that is even possible, I'd be happy to share the screen capture. Unfortunately, I stupidly navigated away from the page and it repopulated the section with random Facebook profiles and I hadn't noted the offending profiles name.

I can't click any of the buttons on the videos, and if I right click the menu pops up way outside the video area.

I have to go to youtube itself to watch it. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I'm using Chrome 26.

Strange one.

The site loads up but the embeds behave as though they are images. There's nothing to click on or interact.

Videosift works in Firefox. This does seem to be an issue with Chrome.

YouTube continues to work as expected.

Any ideas?

Hello!

I noticed not all invocations are show in that comment's pop-up: http://i.imgur.com/MPjZawV.gif ...

Where's related and others? I always forget the other ones.

Thank you in advance.

Moments ago I was leaving a comment on Preemptive Strike Against Google Glasses when I noticed the following:
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Attention Sifters! We need the help of you, our trusted community, to improve our Google rank. All you need is a Google Plus (G+) account and at least a Bronze Star, but what you'll get in return is an @videosift.com email address and a warm and fuzzy feeling for helping the Sift stay alive.

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I wish communications with the siftbot wouldn't show up in the comments section, they could be hidden or optional somehow. I really think invocations, "x user is not privileged, sorry", "ignoring requests from y user", "adding video to channels", etc are not as relevant to a sift's comments section as the actual comments from human beings. We can all see the current state on channels, related videos, and etc elsewhere if we want to. I don't see the need for general users to be exposed to a timeline of when or who requested what, and what the siftbot responded or denied.

I think siftbot denials are specially useless, they provide no information other than to stand as a permanent record of someone's mistake for all to see.

I mean, imagine if wikipedia displayed its articles exposing their history and discussion interspersed with the actual content. That would make no sense, and the added information would only be relevant for an editor or researcher, not for the usual reader.

I suggest hiding by default (maybe with javascript if we're lazy) any comments from the siftbot, and any user comment that only contains invocations, like a "* promote", but not if the comment contains text in addition to invocations (like, "Oooh I loved this cat video's * quality so much, I'm gonna * promote the hell out of it!").

An inconspicuous link somewhere would reveal those comments for anyone interested.

Thoughts?

Is this intentional?

Dear Sifters - it's come to the attention of @lucky760 and myself that we need some help. There is work to be done in our great community that gets back-burnered, support questions that go unanswered and great ideas that go unplumbed. For these reasons and more - we're looking to add one or two community managers to our official staff roster here at VideoSift. This would be a great after-hours job for someone who cares deeply about VideoSift and well ... let's be honest, is here anyway. Here are the qualities we're looking for in community managers: ... more inside ...

I believe that a website stays alive (grows) by attracting new members. The way videosift is set up currently it takes a lot of work to get a special icon next to your name. So much work that you either have to be a lurker or a full time sift zombie

If someone has stayed around long enough to get out of probation why are they still not allowed to post dead/dupe/related/backup? I have found many "problem" videos and tried to help out but siftbot ignores my calls.

I understand wanting to keep the place clean. I think you (the privileged members reading this) forgot how long it takes to gain power. I contribute a lot to videosift with the amount of free time I have and yet I can't make one of my favorite websites a better place.
I had an older account and lost the password. Since it was a standard non probation account which held no abilities I was too lazy to try to recover it and made a new account.

I am not begging. In fact I want this change for all of us lowly regular users (the 99% if you will haha)

My question is - Why can't regular non probationary members help out? Is it out of fear that someone could abuse these commands? It seems unlikely that someone would take the time to get out of probation just to troll around.

My second question - If I submit a video and later find it to be dead or a duplicate why cant I, the SUBMITTER, call a dupe or dead or backup command?

The Centre for Quantum Technologies/New Scientist Quantum Shorts film competition sought films of no longer than three minutes that were inspired by quantum physics.

Based on the winning entries, the main themes were imagining quantum effects on macro particles (people!), and the effects this might have on relationships!

The winner was an Australian film Quantum Daughter, about Erwin Schrödinger's daughter in a parallel universe where computers are so advanced they look like bananas (and where mobile phone companies are so ruthless they will follow you to another universe to cancel a contract). The 100 points referenced is an Australian thing... to open a bank account or get a card for a video store or any of a million other things requires two forms of id (mobile phone company Amaysim has examples).

The equal runners up were the short version of Alice in Quantum Land from Austria, and Heisenberg.

There is also a longer (5 minute) version of Alice in Quantumland which I have posted here in preference to the winning entry, because I liked the way it hung together.

The Singapore Schools category was won by the brilliant and very Singaporean Cat in the box.

The rest of the entries are available at http://shorts.quantumlah.org/video-entries/

The judges declared themselves blown away by the quality of the shortlisted films. “I am really impressed that quantum theory can inspire such creativity,” said Jeremy Webb, New Scientist editor-in-chief. “I would like to congratulate all the directors on their imaginations and the skill with which they have told their stories”.

Good news, Sifters: As you may have already noticed, we've [finally] dropped the cloth background pattern of every VideoSift page that arrived with v5.0. There were always reports of difficulty with reading in v5, so we made a lot of changes to the text (making it larger and darker).

To be honest, it never really occurred to us to just drop the background image altogether, but @oritteropo made the suggestion today and it seemed like a very good idea, so good riddance.

We sincerely hope this is to your liking.

I don't know if this is a bug or not but it's bloody annoying and it keeps happening..

I need to remove the rugby video from Skillful because it's really just a sports clip (and actually features a turnover i.e fail which leads the opposing team to score).

There's no remove link so I head into Skillful. It's got 5 votes so I click on Upcoming.
It says "No videos to display".

The solution in this case is to manually edit the URL to include the skillful folder and lo and behold it's there.

Also we really do need to be able to see ALL videos tagged to a channel as many are hidden in pqueues - *easily* (I know I can do a search but not everyone's going to do that).

Hi fellow Sifters!,

My small independent band released an EP last year in Ireland, and somehow it's ended up being nominated for a Meteor Choice Music Prize for Song of the Year up against relative giants such as the likes of Glen Hansard (of the "Once" movie and The Swell Season fame).

The award is decided by public vote. So, any chance of a few votes in a national arts awards poll for a fellow sifter?

Have a listen to a "radio edit" here (as sifted by oritteropo): http://videosift.com/video/Le-Galaxie-Love-System-Feat-Elaine-May

And if you like, please give us a nod in the public vote at: https://apps.facebook.com/meteorchoice

Thanks guys
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