How to Record Amazon Prime Video and Save It Locally?

I. Amazon Prime Video

If you’re an eligible Amazon Prime member, you can download Prime’s selection of movies and TV shows to compatible mobile devices. Mobile devices that support downloading are:

• Fire tablets (except first-generation Kindle Fire)
• Amazon Fire Phone
• Android phones and tablets
• iPhones and iPads

It’s worth noting that you can’t download videos on your computer, and Amazon Prime Video only supports downloads on mobile devices. Downloaded video files are DRM (Digital Rights Management) protected and encrypted, you cannot move these files to your computer. While it’s not possible to download Amazon Video directly, you can record it directly to your computer with a video recording tool. The following will recommend two simple and professional video recording software to quickly solve the trouble of not being able to download on the PC side.

II. Download videos from Amazon Prime Video to computer

Record video with Renee Video Editor Pro (Windows computer)

① Open Renee Video Editor Pro, select “Screen Recorder”.

② Click the setting button in the lower right corner, select the recording format MP4 or other on the opened setting page, and then select the video quality, resolution, video frame rate and output directory according to the needs, and click OK.

③ Then select User-defined in the recording target column, select Computer Sounds for recording, confirm your file storage directory, open the video playback screen to be recorded, and click the Record button.

④ Select the recording range, select the playback screen size of the recorded video, and then click Record to play the video and record it.

⑤ Wait for the video to finish playing, click the stop button to end the recording and save the recorded video.

Record Video Using QuickTime Player (Mac Computers)

Specific steps:

① Open the QuickTime playback application on the Mac computer, click File > New Screen Recording.

② Click Options in the pop-up menu to set recording options (microphone ans mouse click). Click the record button, then choose a recording type, click once anywhere on the screen to start recording the entire screen, or drag to select a portion of the screen to record, then click Start Recording.

③ After finishing the recording, click the Stop button in the menu bar. Finally, click File > Save and enter a name for the recording to save the video in the designated folder.

III. Download Amazon Prime Video Videos to Mobile Devices

① After opening the movie or TV show you want to download, click the Download button. Certain videos are subject to geographic license restrictions and do not offer video download options.

② Select the location and video quality to save the file. If an SD card is inserted into your mobile phone, a prompt window will pop up asking you to choose whether to download the video to the mobile phone or to the SD card. After choosing a storage location, you need to choose a video quality. The higher the quality, the larger the file size, you can choose according to your needs. Finally, just wait for the download to complete.