Put Youtube Video to iMovie for editing

If you want to import Youtube video into Mac iMovie for editing, but you get frustrated with the Video format, this guide may help you solve the problem.

Before you get started, it will be helpful if you learn something about the Youtube Video and iMovie.
(Youtube Video) - The Video downloaded from Youtube is FLV
(Mac) - iMovie accepts MOV and MPEG4 video files.


This guide includes two parts;

1. How to save youtube video
2. How to put youtube video to Apple Mac iMovie

You can learn more abou how to save youtube video from above link, this topic starts from part 2

2. How to import Youtube Video into Apple iMovie
Step 1. iMovie supports MOV and MP4 video, so you just need to convert your Youtube Video to the right format, I'd prefer using Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac to Convert video files on Mac, You can get this program from Aimersoft Official Website.

Then install and run it, click the "Add" button to import your Youtube videos. This Video Converter for Mac support batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at a time.

Step 2. Select output format and subtitle
After you load the Youtube Video files, click the format drop-down list to select "MOV – Quick Time(*.MP4)" or "MPEG-4 movie (*.MP4)" as the output format. If you just want a certain part of the Youtube Video, you can click "trim" to select your favorite clips from Youtube Video. Just drag the timeline bar to set the start and end time, and then blue line will be the captured parts.



For advanced user, if you want to output higher quality video, click the "Settings" button to open the panel, here you can customize video bitrate, audio bitrate, resolution, framerate, etc. Higher bitrate will result in bigger file size.


Step 3.When the conversion is finished, you can run the iMovie, build a new project, and then drag the converted files to the work space to make personal files.



When the task is finished, In the Menu bar, Click "File" -> "Export" and save it as QuickTime video, then you can convert it to other video format or burn it to DVD. If you need detailed info, here is a step by step guide about how to export iMovie project to QuickTime.