On today’s Tech Help for Churches, Downloading your YouTube videos and why YouTube isn’t a podcast host
Take it from someone who started podcasting in 2005. YouTube isn’t a podcast host. Now, I put my podcasts there, but they’re not delivered as podcasts. They’re delivered as streaming videos.
People who subscribe to podcasts get them delivered automatically to their phones or computers. They can watch or listen whether they have an internet connection or not because the shows live on their devices once they’re downloaded.
[tweet “Even though you can download your videos from YouTube, you should know that YouTube isn’t a podcast host. Here’s why:”]
It’s true that you can download your own YouTube videos. Just go to the video manager and click the down arrow next to the edit button. Once there select “Download MP4” and you’ll be able to download your video (assuming that it doesn’t have a copyright claim against it).
The thing is, no one else can download your videos this way. Sure, there are third-party solutions to can download YouTube videos, but they don’t do it automatically.
Podcasts download because of something called an RSS feed, which is basically a grocery list that the device references before it downloads new content. YouTube doesn’t really have this, not in the same way.
So, a video on YouTube may have originated as a podcast (or any other media type), but it’s not one when it’s on YouTube. It’s a streaming video.
It’s like a movie isn’t technically a “film” when it’s not on film. It’s a video. A television show isn’t a television show when you watch it on your phone; it’s a video. All a podcast is is a delivery mechanism, a mechanism that YouTube doesn’t use. YouTube streams. No biggie; they’re just different.
About this show:
Tech Help for Churches is a weekly podcast premiering every Monday at 11a eastern (-4 UTC), 8a pacific on http://churchtechcast.com. Watch it and join the chat then.
But, if you miss the live show, I’ll put up the edited show later (usually on the same day) right here.
If you use the internet, social media, or new media to advance your church’s mission, this show is for you.
For more questions, comments, or snide remarks, comment below or contact me at: Facebook or Twitter
More video can be found on YouTube.com
Also check out my Google+ page
Transcript:On today’s tech help for churches downloading your YouTube videos and why YouTube isn’t a podcast host I welcome it didn’t deserted hotel for churches this is the show were every week I help you with new media social media the Internet the web etc. for use in your church my name is Paul Alan Clifford on your host and I’d love for you to join the conversation and leave your questions and comments are just do that below the video now if you’re listening to the audio since there’s no video for you to leave it underneath because you’re listening to the audio just head over to Trinity digital media.com/THFC and there you can find almost all the episodes of the show just find one that seems appropriate like this one and leave your comment there well so this is something kind in near and dear to my heart because first off my put all my videos on YouTube and secondly because my first book was all about podcasting and the church strangely I entitled the podcasting church so the question it that I hear a lot is I hear people say well how can I use YouTube as a podcast host and the answer is VA can’t yeah Google very much on purpose has not set up YouTube to be a podcast house now a lot of people put their videos on YouTube and they refer to them as podcasts in fact I think of my shows as podcast but more people consume them on YouTube then on my website for via podcast so technically they’re not really podcast when they’re consumed on YouTube it’s podcasting is a delivery mechanism kind of like you can watch television shows delivered over cable TV or over name 10 oh percent like but if you’re watching a television show on the DVD you’re watching a DVD you’re not watching it as a television show different delivery mechanism same content same idea applies here so that’s the first thing is a podcast is technically just a delivery mechanism where media is delivered automatically using an RSS feed which you don’t even know I have to know what that is just know that that’s the delivery mechanism and its downloadable YouTube videos are not generally speaking downloadable now there are a couple ways to download video so that’s part to what were talking about today you can download your own YouTube videos actually fairly easily assuming that you don’t have a copyright claim on that video so if you’ve used copyrighted music and you get a copyright claim on that then YouTube disables that ability so there are third-party downloaders the you can use in that case to get a copy of your video if you have a hard drive failure or something like that you always want to have backups but let’s say everything fails that’s what you can do on Nokia to tell you how to do those because they can easily be used to download other people’s videos without their permission so I’m not going to tell you how the do those but I will tell you how to download your own videos assuming that their free and clear from copyright notices what you do is you go to the video manager and then you click on videos and you should see all of your videos listed near the thumbnail there is a button that says edit Justin decided that there’s a down arrow you click the down arrow and you look for the selection that says download MP4 perhaps you uploaded in the MOV maybe you.uploaded to be in the you uploaded something other than a name P4 well that really doesn’t matter because Google has transcode it to an MP4 so that’s what you need to download it as now once you get a you can transcoding using something like MPEG Streamclip or there’s another one that I’m blanking on right now anyway all that to say you can download your own videos but the mechanism to do that isn’t widely available you have to be logged into your account in order to do that if you’re like me I have several you a you tube in several Google accounts so it’s quite possible for me to be logged into the wrong account and not be able to download my own videos but then once I get logged into the correct account than I can so that’s kind of one of the safeguards they put in place so that you don’t use them as a video hosts so just remember basically the difference is YouTube is for streaming they’ve added live streaming but in general it’s just streaming means that parts of the video are downloading as you’re watching and as you’re done with it it’s a raised so you don’t have the entire video to be saved on your hard drive for as long as you want a podcast is something totally different where the entirety of the video or audio or technically also a PDF can be downloaded into your hard drive to save as long as you want to be archived to be referenced anytime you want etc. and so that’s the difference between those two mediums even if the content are is exactly the same that’s why YouTube is not a good podcast host and why while you can download it you can’t use that same ability to make it into a podcast toast if you like this content that you liked my email newsletter so by all means head over to TrinityDigitalMedia.com/gifts TI FTS and pick up a church tech gift of your choosing along with a free subscription to my email newsletter also you really ought to head over to my store I’ve been doing all kinds of work behind the scenes adding more more content to my new community church tech you that spelled CH UR CH TCH you short for university so Church techy.com is the community where I have all of my content that I’m allowed to put up there I do have a piece that on gone with some with the publisher on so that’s not on there but all the rest of the stuff is and I’m adding more more as I get it organized and make it more useful for you right now I’m God I think 10 courses available and by the e-books available and I’m adding more and more to make this the best community for church techies in church creative’s that there is the idea is the you’ll be able to go there get training on what you need and discuss it with other people and that’s where all hang out to so we can all discuss things together and learn from each other cousin I admit I don’t know everything so you can help me and I can help you and we can work together right now during the launch. It’s very inexpensive it’s just 997 a month or in entire year for $97 and right now I’m running a thing where the first month is free so you can even try it out and see if it’s right for you and if not canceled no harm no foul and we can stay friends so head over to church tack you.com to check it out you can see all the stuff I have in there and see if any of them any of the courses which would each normally sell for $5200 bare minimum would be something that you be interested in until next time this is Paul Alan Clifford with TrinityDigitalMedia.com go out and change eternity
