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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: June 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 677,701
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 301 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Programs that grab videos from Web sites such as YouTube aren't a dime a dozen--they're a dime for 200 dozen. Most of them aren't that good, either, which makes Ashampoo's freeware ClipFinder such a breath of fresh air in the video-grabbing game.
ClipFinder sports an atypical interface that's simple to navigate. The main window holds a series of long filmstrips. Each of the 14 strips represents a video site, which are searchable either individually or globally. Unfortunately, you can't add new portals, but the ones available include all the major video sites: YouTube, Yahoo, iFilm, and Veoh. Results appear as frames in the strip. Horizontal navigation scrolls through videos, but if you only want to look at YouTube, for example, you can clear the others and look at only the relevant YouTube videos. Mouse over a frame to load it in miniature window. Double-clicking loads it in a child window. The child window has standard control buttons as well as Download, Add, and Copy URL, but there's no easy way to watch in full screen mode. All three worked flawlessly. Clicking Add puts the video in your My Videos panel, for keeping favorites organized, and adding Flash videos from their hard drives.
ClipFinder notably can not upload, the ads for other Ashampoo products are only mildly irritating and full access requires completing the free registration. ClipFinder does so much right. It's such an effortless package to use, that it should be near the top of everybody's video-grabbing programs. If you've got a favorite Flash video downloader, let us know about it in the comments.
Publisher's description
From Ashampoo :Find and immediately download videos from YouTube, VideU, and MyVideo at the click of a mouse. After the picture and music files, now its time for the videos. Online portals like YouTube.com, MyVideo.de, and VideU.de have long since become cult, they collect many funny and creative short videos. In the office and of course also in your everyday life in the meantime it is considered to be chic to call up the video portals for a short break and to start a couple of films to relax or for your own enjoyment. The problem is that the offer of available videos has exploded so much in the past months that it is hardly possible to directly find the best contributions on an interesting topic. People who are in to the funny Star Wars parodies, the best animal films or quite seriously intended company presentations definitely need help with their orientation.
Version 1.43 adds new languages to support.
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Version 1.43 adds new languages to support.
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User reviews of Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.43
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 301 votes
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Version: Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.43
Pros: This is the easiest and fastest way to download youtube videos. Preview screens with simple downloading. You still need a separate converter to watch on you home DVD player.
Cons: Runs slowly sometimes and a crash now and then but overall pretty stable.
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Version: Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.43
"It cannot download any videos"
Cons: It's a big joke. It cannot download anything which is the only reason why I downloaded this software.
When I right click a video and choose to download it, popped up another window, but it did nothing.
After waiting for 15 minutes then it told me it succeeded in contacting the website (YouTube). But it didn't do anything, there was no display that it is downloading the video or doing something. Just like it was hang (actually it wasn't hang at all, it just didn't do anything).
After 20 minutes I checked the video file, it was still 0 kb which means the video hasn't been downloaded at all.
Suddenly it shuts down by it's self.
Are you kidding me!!! You're the worst video downloader I've ever tried. What a pathetic software!!!
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Version: Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.43
"great concept works very well"
Pros: Nice interface; for once I don't mind the brief ad that pops up, as the deals are worth considering. Excellent controls, fast operation, and all for free! Frequent updates and additions make this a must-have program
Cons: Not really their fault - some videos display a frame but aren't really there to view; some downloads crash, but still a great way to download clips!
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Version: Ashampoo ClipFinder 1.43
"One of the best video finders available!"
Pros: The abundance of clips and the wide variety of locations.
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