Need a sound clip from a You Tube video in a Powerpoint presentation.

hieveryone

Hi all,

I'm looking for some help putting a sound clip from a You Tube video into a Powerpoint I am making.

I'm not fussed about having the video, in fact I'd prefer it if I didn't, just the sound.

Any ideas how I would go about that?

Thanks

EchoLocation

Just use something like Audacity to record the sound and trim/edit/save it.

Or post the video link into a site like http://www.listentoyoutube.com/ to download an mp3 of the video.

Chris_M_3

IIRC, Youtube prevents downloading of content but as I have a dodgy broadband connection, I use a download manager....it's almost like being back in the 56k modem days.

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

Anyway, this allows me to download videos from youtube and by right-clicking on the file, I can use another programme I use, dbpoweramp, to rip the audio from the video track.

I guess this is a rather long-winded way to rip audio from youtube and hopefully someone will have figured out a simpler way.

EDIT: Beaten to it by EchoLocation.

cookie365

This is a good Firefox addon that allows you to download youtube vids or just the audio

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-video-and-audio-dow/?src=api

hieveryone

Oh jings this is all sounding very complex.

I should have mentioned I am using a MAC - does this make a difference? Also, can I save this clip onto a pen drive and it will still work if I transfer to another laptop?

Thanks again

EchoLocation

hieveryone wrote: »

I should have mentioned I am using a MAC - does this make a difference?

In that case you could also use the Audio record function in QuickTime... http://www.mactip.net/how-to-record-sound-on-a-mac/

hieveryone wrote: »

Also, can I save this clip onto a pen drive and it will still work if I transfer to another laptop?

Yes, and Yes.

If it's a fairly short clip save it as a .wav file.

hieveryone

Oh dear, I managed to completely mess it up. Mac got something called Genieo installed and it messed up royally

If anyone is bored of a Friday evening and wishes to do this for me and email it over I would be eternally grateful!

hieveryone

A million and one thanks to Cookie365 who has helped me out massively...!

May Karma come back to you big time and if there's anything I can help you out with I'd be more than happy to

cookie365

You're welcome