
Depending on the situation, this may not be ideal as 4K videos compressed by YouTube generally eat less space while offering lossless quality. Another issue with Google Takeout is that all videos are downloaded in the original format and size that you used while uploading your videos. There’s absolutely no option to selectively download videos.Ģ. However, if you only want to download videos from a specific year or month. It downloads all the videos that you have uploaded to YouTube from day one. But this too has some issues, a couple of issues to be precise.

One way to fix this problem is by using Google Takeout to download all of your data, including YouTube videos. The YouTube Studio only lets you download the 720p version of your video, which is not an issue if you shoot in 720p but most YouTubers (including us), shoot in 4K or 1080p.

While it’s always a good idea to have several backups of all your YouTube videos, unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t make it easy.
