Vimeo Downloader: Videos, Channels and Showcases in HD
Vimeo is where filmmakers, studios and teachers publish their work in high quality. NeoDownloader saves it from the address you copy: one film, a dozen links pasted together, or a whole channel, showcase or profile as a single project. Each file is an MP4 that plays with its sound, takes the video's Vimeo title as its name and comes in the best quality the video has, up to the limit you set. You sign in to Vimeo once, inside the program, and every later project reuses that session.
Vimeo Video Downloader vs Online Tools and Chrome Extensions
Online tools and extensions
- Take one Vimeo link per visit
- Face Vimeo's picture and sound arriving as two separate streams
- Run every link you give them through their own server
- Wrap the download button in ads and redirects
- Hand over files with no trace of their Vimeo page
NeoDownloader
- Reads a whole channel, showcase or profile from its address, or a column of links at once
- Fetches both streams and joins them into one MP4
- Your computer talks to Vimeo directly, under your own sign-in
- No ads: it is a program, not a web page
- Names each file by its Vimeo title and remembers the page it came from
How to Download Vimeo Videos
When the owner has allowed it, Vimeo puts its own Download button under the player, and for one film that is enough. To save several, or everything a channel holds, go through these four steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
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Copy a Vimeo Address
Open the video on Vimeo in your browser and copy what the address bar shows. Collecting several? Copy each address in turn. For a whole channel, showcase or profile, copy the address of that page instead: Staff Picks, for one, lives at vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
In NeoDownloader, click New project: the address you copied is already in the field, and more of them go one per line. Click Next. Video Downloader takes the address, and for a video's own page it shows “This address needs a login”. The following step asks how high the quality may go.
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Sign in on the site
ContinueCancelSign In to Vimeo
Pick the folder and click Create project. The first time, Vimeo's sign-in page opens in a browser built into NeoDownloader, separate from your Chrome or Firefox. Sign in, click Continue, and the program keeps the session for the projects that follow.
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Vimeo Staff Picks
Get the Videos
Files appear in the folder as they finish: one MP4 per video, sound included, named after its title on Vimeo. Vimeo sees these downloads as made from your account. Run the same project again some other day, and it fetches only the videos added since.
Save Vimeo Videos in HD, with Sound
On Vimeo the picture and the sound of a video travel separately, and the player combines them while you watch. NeoDownloader does the same once, on your disk: it fetches both and writes them into a single MP4, so the file plays anywhere with its sound.
You set a ceiling in the wizard, and each video arrives at the highest quality Vimeo keeps for it under that ceiling. The free version stops at 1080p; Premium takes what Vimeo holds above it, such as the 1440p or 4K a film was uploaded in. The file is neither re-encoded nor upscaled.
Three kinds of video stay out of reach: one locked with a password, one Vimeo lets play only on the website that embeds it, and one under DRM copy protection, which Vimeo uses for some of its own videos.
Download Vimeo Videos, Channels and Showcases by Their Addresses
- A video - vimeo.com/ and the video's number
- A video in a channel - vimeo.com/channels/…/…
- A whole channel - vimeo.com/channels/…
- A whole showcase - vimeo.com/showcase/…, or an older vimeo.com/album/…
- All the videos of a profile - vimeo.com/ and the profile's name
- A player link - player.vimeo.com/video/…
- A list of videos - their links pasted one under another, which become a single project
Vimeo Video Downloader Features
Videos, channels and showcases, each in one run
Everything a Channel Holds
Give it a channel, a showcase or a profile, and NeoDownloader goes through every video there and saves them side by side in one project: a creator's portfolio or a curated collection in one go.
Links Collected Over Time
Gathered links in a note or a chat? Paste the whole column at once: each line becomes one video of the same project, with its own picture and sound.
Every Video Knows Its Page
The Vimeo title becomes the file's name, and the video's address stays with the file: see it under “Found on” in the properties, or jump back with “Open on the site”.
Watch Them in the App
A double-click plays a downloaded video inside NeoDownloader, and you can step to the neighbouring videos of the project without closing it.
Vimeo Downloader FAQ
Is there a free Vimeo video downloader?
Yes. NeoDownloader is a desktop program you can download for free; it saves Vimeo videos as MP4 files with sound, one link or several at a time. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
How do I download a video from Vimeo?
If the owner allows it, a Download button sits under the Vimeo player. Otherwise copy the video's address in your browser, start a “New project” in NeoDownloader with it, and sign in to Vimeo when the program asks - only the first time. The MP4, with sound, lands in the folder you picked.
Do I need a Vimeo account?
Yes. Vimeo gives a program a video by its own address only when someone is signed in, and the same goes for profiles and showcases. NeoDownloader opens Vimeo's sign-in page in its own browser on the first project and keeps the session for the next ones. What you download counts as activity of your account.
How do I download multiple Vimeo videos at once?
Put their links into “New project”, each on its own line, and they download side by side in one project. If they all belong to one channel, showcase or profile, that page's address alone brings every video.
Can I download all the videos of a Vimeo channel or showcase?
Yes. A channel's address (vimeo.com/channels/…) or a showcase's (vimeo.com/showcase/…) pasted into “New project” brings all its videos into one project, and a profile's address does the same. When the channel adds videos, run the project again and it fetches just those.
What quality are Vimeo videos downloaded in?
The highest Vimeo keeps for each video, capped at the quality you pick in the wizard. The free version stops at 1080p; Premium goes above it when the video has more. The file is saved as Vimeo serves it, without upscaling or re-encoding.
Can I download Vimeo videos in 4K?
With Premium, yes, when the video exists on Vimeo in 4K and the wizard's quality is “Up to 2160p (4K)” or higher. The free version saves the same video at 1080p.
Can I download Vimeo videos to MP4?
Yes, always: Vimeo streams a video's picture and sound apart, and NeoDownloader joins them into one MP4 that ordinary players open.
Can I download private Vimeo videos?
Not a video behind a password: NeoDownloader has nowhere to enter one. Nor a video that Vimeo plays only on the site it is embedded in, or a video protected against copying.
Is there a Vimeo downloader online or as a Chrome extension?
No, it is a program you install on your computer. That is what lets it use your Vimeo sign-in, read a whole channel and save each video with its sound straight into your folder, with no web service in between.
Ready to Download from Vimeo?
Copy a link to a film, a channel or a showcase and start a project. The free version has no time limit.
Available for Windows, Mac and Linux