- In this video, I'll show you how to download
Facebook videos on your Mac or Windows computer,
including Facebook lives, ready for re-use or repurposing.
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Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video,
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So let's jump into it.
Now if you've got videos on Facebook,
including Facebook live streams,
that you'd like to download and repurpose
from your Mac or Windows PC,
unfortunately, the process is not
as straightforward as it can be.
But the good news is that there are a few options to do it
and we're gonna run through the best ones right now.
Now each option does have its advantages and disadvantages,
so make sure you stick around
to make sure that you're using the best solution for you.
So the first option I'm gonna take you through
is just using Facebook.com, using the website
to download your videos that way.
And the process is a little bit different
between a page, a profile and a group.
So I'm gonna take you through
the couple of different methods
to download your videos that way.
But I do wanna let you know that the next two options
that I'm gonna take you through after this one
will actually let you download
higher quality versions of your videos,
then Facebook actually lets you download using this method.
So make sure you stick around for those.
Okay so we're over on Facebook, I'm just on my profile now.
We're gonna navigate through
and find a video that we wanna download.
Here was a test live stream that I've done.
Let's say this is the one we wanna download.
So what you do here is you click on the date itself
that the video was uploaded.
That's gonna open that post in a new window.
Pause that when that comes up.
We don't need to listen to what this guy's talking about.
All you need to do for your profile
is come up to these three dots in the top right-hand corner
and hit download video.
And once that loads, you could be presented
with one of two things.
The first one, I'm using Google Chrome
and this is what's displayed.
This is the video itself.
All I need to do to save it is to right click on it
and choose save video as and that video,
I can then save it to my computer from here.
Or depending on which browser you're using,
you're either gonna see this
exact same window here as I have
or you've actually just gonna see the download window pop up
to automatically start that downloading.
So that's the first way
and that's how you can download from your profile.
A page or a group can be a little bit different.
So I've just jumped across to
our Primal Video Accelerator group.
I'll come down here to videos
and I'll find a video that I have posted in the group,
this one here.
Let's click on this, I'll pause it.
Again, we don't need to hear what I am saying.
And then I'm gonna need to do is come down the bottom here.
Again we're looking for these three dots
and we just choose download video.
We're then presented with that same window,
just with the video itself in it.
Right click, save video as to save it
or you might've already been prompted
to download at this point already.
Okay, so that's option one for downloading
your own videos posted on your own profile,
your page or a group where you have made the post.
The next two methods I'm gonna show you,
will let you download higher quality versions
of your own videos than following this method,
and they'll also let you easily download
other people's videos as long as they are public.
So not posted inside of a private group.
Okay so this next option, option number two,
is where we're going to be using third party websites
to manage the download for us.
So I'm gonna take you through that now.
So you wanna come across and find videos
in either a page, a profile or a group
that you wanna download.
Again, if it's a group, you gotta make sure
that it's not a private video.
So I'm just gonna go here to see all videos.
Let's pick one of these,
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I'll click on that.
We'll pause it so we don't have to hear me speak.
But all you need to do is to grab this
link at the top here, the video URL.
Now for some reason, if you're not seeing the video URL,
you can right click on the video itself
and choose show video URL
and you can see the two of them match,
they're exactly the same.
So I've selected, right click,
choose copy or press command C or control C
on your computer to copy that.
You then wanna come across to one of these two websites.
The first one is fbdownload.io
and the second one is fbdown.net.
Now really, you can get great results
with either one of these two.
My personal preference currently is fbdownload.io.
But all you need to do is just to paste that
video link into the box here, press download.
That's gonna go and generate your download links for you.
Scroll down the bottom here and then pick
the highest quality version of your video
for you to download.
So in this case, this video must've only
gone up in standard definition.
You can see it's 5.88 megabytes.
We just hit the download button
and either, again, one of two things is gonna happen.
It's either gonna pop up in this new window like this,
where we can right click and choose save video as
or it's just gonna pop straight up
with that download window for you
to save your video to your computer.
And just be aware that these websites
do have quite a few ads and those sorts of things on them,
and may, at some point, have some pop-ups or anything.
So just ignore those and this is the only
piece that you're interested in down here.
So that is option number two is using third party websites.
Again, like fbdownload.io or fbdown.net.
Option number three which is my personal favorite
is actually what I use all the time
is a piece of software for Mac and PC
called Parallels Toolbox.
And Parallels Toolbox is so much more than just
downloading Facebook videos or YouTube videos,
it is a suite of tools that you can install
on your computer to do some pretty cool stuff.
Like there's a do not disturb mode;
presentation mode to stop all alerts
and everything while you're live streaming;
you can hide your desktop icons
if you're gonna be sharing your computer screen
and you wanna hide everything.
Any mess or clutter on your desktop.
You've got things like airplane mode,
you've got a built in video converter.
So there's a heap of cool little tools
and things in here that are really useful
and you can currently grab Parallels Toolbox
on Mac or Windows for 19.99 per year.
And there's, as I said, it's something that we use a lot.
Not just for the downloading part
but for a lot of the other tools and things in here as well.
So how do we actually use it for downloading our videos?
All we need to do is to come up to Parallels Toolbox,
click on download video
and we get this little window here that pops up,
I'll move it off to the side here.
What you wanna do is make sure
that your setting are all correct.
So just press on settings,
you get to choose your preferred quality.
What I would suggest is that
you're pressing the maximum quality available.
You also have the ability to convert any non-MP4 files.
So if you're gonna be downloading
any videos off the internet or off any websites
that aren't in MP4, then you can have this
automatically convert to MP4 for you.
And you also get to select your download location here.
So I'm gonna hit done.
But to download that video, all we need to do
is to paste in that Facebook URL that we copied,
the direct URL or the direct link to our video.
We've still got that copied but I'll copy it again now.
Come back to our video downloader here
and we'll just hit paste
and the video itself just starts downloading.
Now watch this too.
You can see that the file that we're downloading
is 9.5 megabytes.
This is a higher quality file
than the previous one that we downloaded.
That was, I think it was 5.4 or 5.8 megabytes.
So that's why I'm a really big fan of Parallels Toolbox.
I think for the 19.99 per year,
with all the tools and everything built in,
but also giving you the ability to download
the best quality Facebook and YouTube videos.
I think it is an amazing offering.
So that's how easy it is to download your Facebook videos.
Now if you're interested in repurposing your content
across other platforms, including portrait platforms
like IGTV, then check out the video linked on screen now
for all the strategies and best practices
on how you can easily do it.
And I'll see you in the next one.