Save a video from a web page
Play the video in ClipHearth's browser, let the detector find it, pick the quality, and keep the file. Then convert or trim it in the same app.
01Open the page and start the video
Go to Browser in the sidebar, or Browse a site on Home. The browser opens on its own start page: type an address or search in the box, or pick one of the pages you saved or visit most, then press play. The Media detector capsule beside the address bar stays grey until something plays, because ClipHearth finds media by following what the page's own player loads. It is made for videos you may keep: your own uploads, the recording of your webinar, a clip published under a licence that allows it. Videos protected with DRM are not supported.
02Wait for Video found
While the player starts, the capsule shows Searching…, then turns green with Video found and the Download button. Give it a few seconds: players often begin with a low quality and switch up once the connection allows, and every variant they load is picked up and compared with the others. If the capsule says Paused, page scanning was switched off in the Browser tools menu (the three dots): press Resume.
03Pick the quality
Download opens Choose video quality. The variants found so far are listed straight away while ClipHearth scans the page for the rest, so the list can grow while the window is open, and two tabs tell them apart: From the site and From the page. One of them is marked Recommended. Download video saves the one you select; Download audio keeps only its sound. If the window says No quality found yet. Play the video and try again., let the page play a moment longer.
04Only the part you need, with subtitles
Tick Only a section and set where it starts and ends to save just that stretch, cut exactly at those times. In the SUBTITLES row, Add subtitles and a language in SUBTITLES IN bring subtitles along: the ones the site has are saved as they are, with no AI.
05Follow it in the Queue
The download shows up as a card in the Queue under Running, with its speed and size, and a short drop in your connection does not stop it. When it is done, it moves to Completed with its format, length, resolution, and the place where the file is, and under Recent on Home.
06Pause it and go on later
Since 1.7.5, a running download has Pause beside Cancel. Pause stops it and keeps what has arrived so far: the card stays under Running, marked Paused, and its place goes to the next download that waits. Resume puts it back first in line, and it goes on from where it stopped instead of starting over, as long as the file on the site has not changed. From 1.7.7 a file that changed meanwhile downloads again from the start. Cancel on a paused download deletes the part it has. Pause shows only on downloads that can go on from where they stop. A live recording never pauses, because it would miss part of the broadcast: it has Stop and save instead.
07A pause lasts while ClipHearth is open
A paused download waits as long as ClipHearth runs, also when its window is closed and it sits in the tray (the menu bar on a Mac). Quitting ClipHearth or installing an update ends it: ClipHearth asks first and says how many downloads are paused, and the part downloaded so far is not kept. So resume a paused download and let it finish before you quit.
08Convert it or edit it from Completed
Every entry in Completed has Play and a row of buttons: the Converter (Open this file in the Converter) opens it with the file already chosen, for another format or a smaller size, and the Studio (Open this file in the Studio) opens it to trim, join, or adjust the colour. The others make AI subtitles, put the file in a shared box, and open its folder. The downloaded file stays as it is.
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