How to download or save a Vimeo video to your computer

Updated: 12/31/2020 past Computer Promise

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Vimeo is a drove of high-quality films, videos, and animations from people all effectually the world. You may desire to save your favorite videos to your reckoner and then you can picket them without existence connected to the Internet or mobile devices. Below are the steps required for downloading and watching Vimeo videos on your computer for gratuitous.

Notation

You lot cannot download and salvage streaming videos from Vimeo using the download options below.

Download within Vimeo

Different most video services, some of the videos on Vimeo can be downloaded to a computer. If the download pick for a video is available, click the Download button below the video, as shown in the moving picture below. After clicking the Download push, a list of bachelor formats is displayed. The nearly common video format available for download is the SD format.

Note

The download choice is not bachelor for all videos. Users must have a Business organisation, Plus, or Pro account to enable their videos for download past other users.

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Saving a Vimeo video using another service

Some third-party websites allow you to enter the URL of the video you want to save to your computer, and offering a video file for you to download. Beneath is a unproblematic three-step procedure to download whatever Vimeo video.

Note

If you are at a school or job that is blocking Vimeo, these steps may not work.

  1. Start, go to Vimeo and navigate to the video yous want to save. When you lot've establish the page, printing Ctrl+L on your keyboard to highlight the URL in the accost bar, and then Ctrl+C to re-create the Net address.
  2. Once the URL is copied, paste it in the text field below by clicking within the box and pressing Ctrl+V. And then, click the Download Video button.
  1. If done properly, a new window appear displaying a preview of the video, similar to the one shown below. Click the drop-down listing to the correct of the green Download push button to view the bachelor video formats and quality. For most users, we suggest downloading the MP4 format. Other available formats may include FLV, 3GP, and WebM. Once you take selected your format, click the appropriate download link.

Vimeo download window

After the file is downloaded, information technology is bachelor in your downloads folder.

I yet can't download a video

If you practise not go a preview like our example, make sure the link yous are using works by opening the page in a new window. Once verified as working, try the above steps once again. If the steps continue non to work, try refreshing this folio by pressing the F5 central on your keyboard and following the above steps once again. If that still does not work, you can try installing a utility to download videos on Windows, Linux, and Apple macOS computers.

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It is only saving as audio and not video

Make sure you are choosing the "MP4 360p" or "MP4 480p" option from the download link. If you cull "Audio MP4 128," information technology only downloads the sound and not the video. If you did choose the right download link, it'southward very likely that the player y'all are using does not have the necessary codec for video files. Download the gratuitous VLC player for your reckoner and try to play the video file from within VLC and not the thespian you are currently using.

Vimeo bookmarklet, browser add together-ons, and extensions

If you programme on downloading several videos, y'all can also apply the Computer Hope bookmarklet. See our bookmarklet page for more than information about bookmarklets. There are also browser add-ons for Firefox and extensions for Google Chrome to download videos from video sites.

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