Importing parts of youtube videos

[David72]

Hello,

Does anyone know a way of importing only parts of Youtube videos into LingQ?

For example, I have a 16 minute YT video which is too long to study. Can I just import the first 8 minutes and then the second 8 minutes to make 2 lessons.

Thank you.

[alainravet1]

That would be useful.

Previously requested:

Shouldn't there be a function to import just PART of a Youtube video?

So I basically import Russian news from Western sources on a daily basis to study Russian. Sometimes, a Youtube clip will be like 20 or 30 minutes long, but I am only interested in the first 5 minutes. Shouldn’t there be a function on LingQ where you can ask it to import only the first few minutes? Or, even say the ability to ask LinQ for example just to import from minute 2:00 to minute 7:00 of a video? The reason I find it odd LinQ hasn’t developed it is that it would seriously reduce the …

[David72]

I agree. It would be very useful.

My only work-around now is to convert the YT video to MP4, import into into a video editor (Quicktime), edit it down to 5 minutes, export it. I then have to convert back to MP3 and import into LingQ. All very time-consuming!

[NolaNewGal]

I cant import at all. The importer was working well and now doesn’t. It says no appropriate captions found but I can see the captions. Anyone else having this problem?

[Fer.weh]

Hi, there is an easy way to get there:
Import the full video, go to the lesson editor and just delete the part of the text, that you don’t want.

[William_T94]

Not a great solution, however you could download the video from YouTube, trim it to only the part you want to keep, then upload it unlisted. I don’t know if Lingq allows unlisted YouTube videos to be imported but it might work.