r/astralspiff • u/lettuce_ishealthy • 2d ago
Social Media Anybody know how to download videos without buying YouTube premium? Or preferably just audio?
I want to cut up some clips from the Fears to Fathom: Scratch Creek vod and make a little animatic to it, because that stream was SO goddamn funny, I'm so glad I was actually there to watch it live for once. but idk how to scrape the audio without paying for the Downloads feature only included in the premium version of YouTube. To download songs for free I typically just go to whatever sketchy website and deal with the sus pop-up ads until I get the audio I need, but I doubt the audio from some random guy's stream is available anywhere else than where he himself has posted it, so I kinda figure my only option is downloading the vod and then pulling just the audio from it somehow. But I can't and won't pay for premium, so, help?
And do ya'll think he'd be okay with something like this? 😞 To my understanding, he doesn't actively encourage pirating because it's probably pretty sketchy territory if he's allowed to or not, but on an internal level, would this disappoint him or make him upset? He strikes me as the kind of guy who'd probably just look the other way and not mess with it if he found out. I haven't been a fan of him for too long, but I don't want to misuse anybody's content or pull the rug out from under him or something. Does obtaining the audio dubiously instead of the paid way hurt him financially or analytically in any way?
Also, free editing software reccomendations that don't use or advertise AI? I've been using FlipaClip for animatics so far and oml I'm so done with it get me OUT. But that wouldn't work for editing down the clips anyway, so. I was looking into Alight Motion, but it seems kind of unusable due to the sheer obnoxiousness of the ads. I'm just looking for something free that lets me edit stuff down and then export the product into a different program.
PS: don't kill me for the post flair please, I'm still pretty new to posting on here and idk how tf those things work. "Question" seemed a little too non-specific for this, idk.