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If you are a MacBook user, you should have seen an application called “iMovie” many times as it is a pre-installed app on all MacBook released in recent years. iMovie is a video editing software provided by Apple, the function of it is not only editing such as trimming and insertion, but also video recording that can be easily done, and it can be used with free of charge. Therefore, if you are a Mac user and fascinated with video editing, iMovie must be a good choice for you.
Now you have the best video editing tool, do you know the best place to find the video material? The videos on YouTube should be considered in the first place. Although there are numerous videos available on YouTube worldwide, none of them can be downloaded or saved to your local disk easily. Now the question is, how to download the videos from YouTube and make some edits (with iMovie) for personal use? If you are looking for an answer to this question, the following part of this article will provide you the best solution for downloading YouTube videos to your computer and add it to the iMovie.
The first step we need to download the video from YouTube to the local drive. NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader will help you download the YouTube videos efficiently. It is equipped with the most advanced HD video downloading technology and capable of downloading any videos that are available on YouTube in MP4, MKV, or WebM format. And the most importantly, it is totally free.
Currently, the program is both available on Windows and Mac. Before getting started, please ensure you have the NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader installed on your PC. Below are the detailed steps:
Run YouTube Video Downloader on PC, and then directly copy and paste the link of videos from YouTube or enter the keywords of videos to NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader, and then press "Enter" button on your keyboard.
Click the 
button on the upper right corner to customize the video quality (High, Medium, Low), subtitle language, simultaneous download, and output path.
The program will list all downloads option in the "Advanced Download" window. All you need to do is tap the icon 
, followed that a window will pop up allowing you to select the corresponding video or audio in different output format & quality. Currently, the main output audio formats are M4A and WebM.
If you want to download a video, you need to choose Download as Video in the bottom left corner. Also, you can select the audio and subtitle options in their corresponding columns. If you want to download an audio file, you can choose Download as Audio. You cannot select options in the Video and Subtitle columns. NoteBunrer also allows you to download subtitles as separate files. To do that, simply choose Download as Subtitles.
After completing the above steps, now the final step is clicking the download icon to start downloading the song to the output folder you've chosen in step 2.
Once the download is done, you can find the downloaded songs by clicking the "Library" button or just opening the output folder.
The process of importing videos in local drive to iMovie is very easy. Simply follow the instructions below.
1 Transfer the videos to your Macbook via USB flash drive or any other online file transfer tool.
2 Import YouTube video into iMovie.
Launch iMovie, click the File and select Import > movies, navigate to the folder where the downloaded YouTube videos are saved. Select the files and click "Import".
If you are also looking for a tool to download Netflix videos, we do have a recommendation for you to download the movies or TV shows from Netflix. Netflix Video Downloader works the same pattern as YouTube downloader, you can simply search the video or copy the URL link from Netflix, and the videos will be downloaded right away.
Note: NoteBurner strictly complies with the US copyright regulations. We adopt a leading technology to record unencrypted video without any protection being circumvented.
