As one of the most popular video sharing website, YouTube grants thousands of, perhaps millions of users to upload, share and video videos, and of course registered users are also be allowed to download their favourite videos, these downloaded videos are then be used in a large variety ways, either for public use, like public presentation (video tutorial, class presentation, product promotion), or for private use, such as putting on portable devices, adapting for publishing on personal website etc.
However, these downloaded videos may probably need to go through some editing process in order to be perfectly utilized. Instead of going all out to seek for a professional and pricey video editing application, many Mac users turn to iMovie (a free proprietary video editing software that comes with every Mac) for help. Things can not always go smoothly, these who want to better their YouTube videos may find them hardly to be imported in iMovie.
What’s the matter? The reason why can’t lie in this, generally speaking, the commonly downloaded YouTube videos are mostly in FLV format which is not in a right format iMovie can read who only opens its door to limited files like MOV, DV, HDV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 etc. Therefore, to ensure a smooth transfer, you will need a program to encode YouTube videos to iMovie recognizable files. Fortunately, this is what YouTube to iMovie converter can do.
YouTube to iMovie converter is just the ideal one for Mac users who want their YouTube videos to be perfected with iMovie by simply converting YouTube videos to iMovie understandable files. This application support a surprising variety of video input and output such as AVI, WMV, MPG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DV, MOV, MKV, VOB, ASF, FLV, SWF, 3GP, RM, MOD, TOD, AVCHD etc. Besides, the built-in video editing function also empowers you to make preliminary video editing before importing to iMovie for further editing.
Below is the simple and crystal clear way to convert YouTube videos to iMovie MOV, DV, HDV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 files, just have a glance of the picture listed below:
After converting, open iMovie, click on File > Import > Movies, and navigate to where the file is. Create a new event and import into iMovie.
Note: If you are interested in uploading or inserting your YouTube FLV videos to your personal blog or websites, please visit:http://www.dvd-to-imovie.com/tutorials/43-import-youtube-to-imovie.html .
