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How to download YouTube videos on Mac and import them to FCE for editing?



For YouTube fans are full of enthusiasm about downloading and editing YouTube videos for their personal use, this post will focus on discussing the topic of how to download YouTube videos on Mac and import them to Final Cut Express for editing.

Before doing video editing via FCE, first of all, we should master a proper way to get the original materials, namely the YouTube video files. In fact, not all the people are good at YouTube downloading, because they may lack the assistant of correct downloading tools. Therefore, now I’d like to introduce some free YouTube downloaders in advance. Please find one which is the best for you from the following lists:

Free YouTube downloaders for Mac:

Free YouTube Downloader for Mac

Free Video Downloader for Mac

Web Video Downloader for Firefox (also available for Windows and Linux)


Certainly, besides using the above mentioned free YouTube downloaders, you can also choose a free online dowanloader and converter to work for you. There will be a collection below, please feel free to select one:

Free online YouTube converters (download and convert together)

http://www.convertdirect.com/

http://vixy.net/

http://www.videoconverterdownload.com/online-free-flv-converter.html

http://www.flv2mp3.com/

http://online.movavi.com/


Now let’s go back to how to import YouTube videos to FCE for editing. It is obviously, the only thing you need do is transfer the YouTube videos in the format of FLV or F4V to this program worktable formats, after that you can edit them with FCE quite easily. Factually, the above mentioned online converter can do this to some extent, while the range of their output formats are narrow, even the first one which I believed most powerful among them can only export files into few formats, in addition, some of them are for Windows only. You can have a preview of the output formats:



As a matter of fact, if you have higher expectation of the output format types and image quality, you’d better consider using a professional converter like Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac to handle your YouTube videos before importing to FCE, since it enables you to custom video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, image pixels, etc, so that the video quality can be controlled by yourselves.



Undoubtedly, as long as the output files are in good quality, while importing them to Final Cut Express for editing, it will save you much time and energy to do further adjusting of your video files. And also, the editing and authoring effects will be as excellent as you wish.

It is unbelievable easy and fast for Mac users to enjoy YouTube videos anywhere they like. Add the YouTube video’s URL, click OK, and then choose an output video formats, you can get your wanted video formats including MP4, 3GP, MPEG-4, AVI, MPG, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, AAC, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A for playback on popular gadgets like iPod, iPhone, iPhone 3G cell phones, Apple TV, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iRiver, Zune, etc. in seconds. Besides, it also supports batch conversion for YouTube videos, just choose the task number you want to convert in the settings, you can let the program convert more than one downloading and conversion at one time, which will remarkably save your time and energy. Tip: Our program is just designed for you to Download YouTube Videos, Convert YouTube Videos online video, if you want to convert local FLV, please select to use Pavtube FLV Converter for MAC. If you are Windows user you can download Pavtube YouTube Converter.

Here is a link :

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http://www.pavtube.com/youtube-converter

No matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user, just try about Pavtube, I am exactly sure it will not let you feel disappointed.