Download and Import YouTube Videos to iMovie on Mac Mavericks/Yosemite

Well, YouTube as the most popular video sharing site, provides millions of interesting videos to free download. Want to make you downloaded Youtube videos more stylish by editing them in iMovie?

Having said that, I still rake up the old saying: Nothing is perfect! You see, when I try to import YouTube videos in the .flv format for editing in Apple’s iMovie, especially on Mavericks/Yosemite. I instantly fizzle out as I only to find that they just gray out. The YouTube FLV files wouldn’t be accepted unless they can be turned to iMovie native formats. This tutorial tells you how to download YouTube video and import them to iMovie 8/9/11 on Mac OS X(including Mavericks and Yosemite).

Part I: Download and Import YouTube Videos to iMovie for Editing

What you need?

Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac, is the right tool you need which can be taken as an extremely easy-to-use downloader and converter program to download and save YouTube videos on Mac computer, then convert them to iMovie supported format and directly import video to iMovie for editing. Batch conversion is supported. No extra tools are required. The original quality of YouTube video will be kept.

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Part 2. Convert YouTube FLV Videos to iMovie (without Downloading)

After downloaded YouTube FLV files to your Mac, you can preview them with VLC player. Then converting Youtube FLV files is always the best resort to fix the problems you’re having befor importing to iMovie for editing. Thus, a best-in-class YouTube to iMovie Converter is a crying need.

Grounded on the above standards, many inferior YouTbue video converters for iMovie have automatically quitted from the battle for top. The rest are elites, among which the most promising one goes to Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac, the bleeding-edge video converter works perfectly on Mac Mavericks/Yosemite after testing, and it provides intact quality and splitting speed.

Hailed as the best-ever YouTube to iMovie Converter, it outshines its rivals also at its capability to faultlessly convert YouTube flv videos to iMovie editable format within barely 4 clicks. Editing the video is another advantage of this YouTube to iMovie converter. You can customize the video as you like without any hassles. In consequence, you can ingest the funny YouTube videos or music videos in iMovie on Mac Mavericks/Yosemite without worrying about format incompatibility issue.

How to use it to your advantage in dealing with YouTube Video and iMovie on Mac Mavericks/Yosemite will be discussed now:

Step 1: Add Youtube videos

Download Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac. Install and launch the easy-to-use and professional YouTube to iMovie Converter, click “Add video” or “Add from folder” button to load Youtube videos from your hard drive.

Tips: You can joint multiple YouTube flv files on to one output file by checking Merge into one file on the interface.

Step 2. Click “Format” bar to choose the output format

If you want to edit YouTube flv in iMovie, please choose iMovie and Final Cut Express -> Apple InterMediate Codec(AIC) (*.mov). This is best format for iMovie 8/9/11 editing on Mac Mavericks/Yosemite, once converted, you won’t need to render.

Step 3. Adjust video/audio settings

You can click “settings” to customize the output parameters, adjust the resolution, bitrate as you want.

Step 4. Convert Youtube to iMovie

Click on the Convert button to start converting Youtube videos to AIC.mov for using in iMovie. After the file conversion, you can edit the video as you like through on iMovie Mac Mavericks/Yosemite.

Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac work as not only the best YouTube to iMovie Converter, but also a perfect YouTube Video Editor for Mac to edit Youtube files easily on Mac OS X: split, merge, trim, crop, adjust video effect, or add subtitles, etc.

Now it is not a big deal to import YouTube Videos to iMovie to create your own masterpiece! In addditon, you can import YouTube videos to FCP for editing and watch YouTube video on MP3 Player as well as TV.