How to Free Download YouTube Videos

YouTube is one of the most popular websites that offer streaming videos. In the following guide, I'd like to show you how to download videos from YouTube using Clone2Go Free YouTube Downloader.

Download the latest version of Free YouTube Downloader via this link. Install and launch the program.



Visit youtube.com and open the YouTube videos you are going to download. Copy the URL of each video. Note: You can get the URL of the video from the address bar of your browser.

Click the "YouTube" button in the main interface of Free YouTube Downloader. In the pop up window of "Import Video from Internet", paste the URL of the YouTube video you copied just now.



There will be a list of the added YouTube videos.



Tick the videos you are going to download. Right click any of the added video and choose "Download Selected Online FLV" from the drop-down list.



The downloading status is clearly shown on the list. After the status of all of them indicates "Completed", you can get the downloaded videos (.flv, .mp4 or .3gp) by clicking the "Folder" button in the main interface.

How to Transfer DVD Movies to iPad

The iPad is the first tablet computer developed by Apple Inc. It is part of a device category between a smartphone and a laptop computer. In the following guide, I'd like to show you how to convert DVD movies to iPad compatible video files and transfer DVD movies to iPad.

To begin with you need to know the video formats the Apple iPad can play.

The Video Formats Supported by Apple iPad Include

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Now to transfer the DVD movies, what you need to do is simply rip the DVD movies into a video format supported by iPad. After you have the files in a compatible format upload them into your iPad through the sync of iTunes library.

To convert DVD movies to iPad video files you need to download the Clone2Go DVD to iPad Converter.

So are you all set? Let's start the process now.

Step 1

First open the DVD to iPad Converter.

Add DVD files.

If the DVD movie you need to convert is on your disc drive, click on the Open DVD button.

In case you have saved it in a hard drive, click the Add Video button and locate the folder.

Locate the path of the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Select the .vob files and click OK.



Once the DVD has been been imported you can watch it on the main interface.

Here's your chance to pick the DVD you wish to play on your iPad. Select the portion you want to play. Drag from the Start to trim and Stop to trim button to select the segment.

Step 2

To choose the proper profile look for the drop-down list of Profile option on the right. Choose the profile that suits you best. Like for instance if you want to play the video in MPEG-4 choose the iPad MPEG-4 Video from the list of profiles.



Step 3

Click on the Start Encode button to start ripping DVD's for iPad.

Step 4

After the ripping is complete, go to the Folder button on the main menu to get the converted video files.

You are done. Now upload them into your iPad through the sync of iTunes library and start playing.

Burn YouTube Video to DVD on Mac (OS X Lion)

The following guide is going to show you how to download YouTube video, convert YouTube video and burn YouTube video to DVD on Mac (including OS X Lion) for free. It is composed of the following two parts:

Part 1. How to Free Download YouTube Video on Mac

1. Download Free YouTube Downloader for Mac, install and run it.



2. Visit YouTube.com and go to the YouTube video page you'd like to download to your Mac. Copy the video link from the address bar of your browser.

Paste the link to the "Video Link:" box and click the "+Add" button, then it will be added to the manager panel at the top of the interface. To add more videos, just copy and paste the link to the the box and click the "+Add" button again. Then there will be a list of URL of Videos showing in the manager panel.



3. Choose the output format you need from the "Output Format" options.



4. Click the "..." button to locate to the folder you want to output the downloaded YouTube videos to.

Note: After the downloading and conversion process, you can click the "Folder" button to locate this folder and get the output videos.

5. Click the "Download" button to start downloading and converting YouTube videos.

Part 2. How to Free Burn YouTube Video to DVD on Mac

To burn the downloaded YouTube videos to DVD, you can turn to Apple iDVD, which allows you to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player.

Note: The downloaded YouTube videos may not be imported into iDVD project. In this case, it is recommended that you download Video Converter for Mac to convert the downloaded YouTube videos to QuickTime movies first.

1. Launch iDVD and create a new project.

2. In the new project, switch to the "Media" tab and then go to "Movies".

3. In the "Movies" tab, find the downloaded YouTube videos and drag them to the left panel of the project.



4. After all necessary settings such as background music, themes, buttons, drop zones, click "File" -> "Burn DVD..." to start burning YouTube videos to DVD on Mac. You may also choose to save the project as Disc Image or VIDEO_TS Folder.

Convert MSWMM and Burn MSWMM to DVD

What is MSWMM?

A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file).

How to Convert MSWMM Files?

You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker (click "File -> Open Project Project...") and save the movie to your computer: go to the "Tasks" bar, click "Finish Movie" and then click "Save to my computer".



Then Windows Movie Maker will ask you to enter a file name for your movie and choose a folder to save your movie. The movie will be saved as a WMV file in the PC.

After you have saved the MSWMM file to your computer hard drive as WMV video, you can now begin to convert the WMV file to the specific video format you need.

You may go and download Clone2Go Video Converter Professional to help you.



The steps are quite simple:

1. Import the WMV file to the program.
2. Choose an output format. For example, if you want to watch the movie on your iPad, you can choose "iPad MPEG-4 Movie" as the output format.
3. Start to convert.

How to Burn MSWMM to DVD?

To burn MSWMM to DVD, you will need DVD authoring software. Here, I'd recommend using Photo DVD Burner Professional. Below is the screenshot of this program:



Let's take a look at how it performs:

1. Click "Organize" -> "Add Video Clips..." to import the video into the program. Note: Photo DVD Burner Professional only supports .avi video format. So you need to convert WMV (saved from MSWMM) to AVI file first. You also need to set the "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2" before conversion.
2. Go to the "Choose Menus" tab to choose a DVD menu template. You can also specify background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.
3. Go to the "Burn Disc" tab to start burning videos to DVD.

Edit DVD Movie in iMovie

If you are fond of some video clip from a DVD movie and want to edit it in Apple iMovie project, you got the right place! The following tutorial will share with you how to convert DVD to iMovie friendly video format and import DVD into iMovie for editing.

Video formats accepted by iMovie include MPEG-2 and AVCHD, DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video), QuickTime Movie, MEPG-4. In order to import DVD movie into iMovie, you need to convert DVD to iMovie compatible format first. It is very easy and fast to convert DVD to iMovie format using Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie

Download the latest version of DVD Ripper for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Open DVD" button to import your DVD movie. Or you can click the "File ->Open DVD Disc/Folder" in the top menu of Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac to add the DVD movie.



Step 2. Select Output Format: "MPEG-4 Movie (*mp4)"

After the DVD is imported, go to the "Output" panel. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose "MPEG-4 Movie (*mp4)" as the output format.



Step 3. Start Converting

When all settings are done, click the "Convert Now" button to start convert DVD to iMovie format.

Step 4. Export Output File to iMovie

Launch iMovie, go to "File > Import > Movies...". Select the converted MP4 video then click "Import".



That's it! Now you can edit your videos in iMovie. Enjoy making your own movies!



Source from http://www.clone2go.com/tutorials/put-dvd-movie-into-imovie.php

How to Edit YouTube Video in Windows Movie Maker

The following guide is going to show you how to download YouTube videos for free, convert YouTube videos for Windows Movie Maker and edit YouTube videos in Windows Movie Maker. It is composed of three parts:

Part 1. How to download videos from YouTube for free

I'd like to recommend using the online YouTube downloader called GrabTube to download videos from YouTube. With this online converter, you can download and convert YouTube video to MP3, 3GP, AVI, FLV or MPG. It is as easy to use as:

1. Browse on over to http://www.grab-tube.com/converter where the converter lives and you will see a screen that looks like this:



2. The URL bar at the top of the screen lets you simply paste a URL of the YouTube video to download. Drop down the format next to it and hit the download button.

3. You will see the next screen with links to download the file to your computer. With the file, you can then use the service to convert it to another file type.

Part 2. How to convert YouTube videos for Windows Movie Maker

The videos downloaded using GrabTube are in MP4/3GP/FLV format. In order to put them onto Windows Movie Maker, you still need to convert the videos to AVI/WMV format. I always use Clone2Go Video Converter to convert between common video formats including AVI and WMV. Apart from a video converter, this piece of software can also be used to download videos from YouTube. So, back to Part 1, if the size of the video you are going to download from YouTube is larger than 40 MB or if you failed to get a high Internet connection, you can simply use this video converter to download YouTube videos.



Note: Windows Movie Maker needs external codec to decode mp4, xvid and mpeg2 video. To skip this trouble, please select "Customized AVI Movie(*.avi)" profile and adjust "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2", "video size" to "Original" to get AVI video accepted by Windows Movie Maker.

Part 3. How to edit YouTube videos in Windows Movie Maker

After you get the output video clip downloaded and converted from YouTube, now you can begin to put it into your Windows Movie Maker.

Click on "File". Then click on "Import into collections". A window will appear. In the window, navigate to the video clip you downloaded and converted from YouTube just now. Then double click on the file. You'll see the icon for the file in your Windows Movie Maker "Collections".



About Windows Movie Maker:

Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Below are the media formats accepted by Windows Movie Maker:

Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv

Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .mlv, .mp2

Audio files: .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff

Windows media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv

MP3 format audio: .mp3

How to import flv into iDVD

iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. It is often considered the last step of Apple's iLife suite, bringing together all the other iLife applications' results onto a removable medium. It is comparable to its Microsoft Windows alternative Windows DVD Maker.

The following step by step tutorial is going to show you how to convert FLV to iDVD compatible QuickTime movie format so that you can import FLV into Apple iDVD project using Clone2Go Video Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Add FLV Files

Download the latest version of Clone2Go Video Converter for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Add Files" button to import the video clips stored on your Macintosh HD. Then you can get the video information in the manager panel.



Step 2. Select output format

Video formats that work with iDVD include:

Most video files supported by QuickTime;
16:9 widescreen formats;
Any format from iMovie: DV, high-definition video (HDV), MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-2 SD, MPEG-4 SD, MPEG-4 HD, and AVCHD

After the video files are imported, go to the "Output" panel. Extend the "Profile" drop-down list to choose the format that best fits your needs. Here, just choose QuickTime Movie (*.mov)" as the output format.



Step 3. Start to convert

After all the necessary settings, just click the "Convert Now" button to start converting FLV to QuickTime MOV for importing into iDVD project on your Mac machine.

Note: You may not be satisfied with the profile provided to you. In this case, you can click the "Customize..." button next to the "Profile" box to customize a profile. In the following "Profile Settings" Window, you can adjust Video Size, Frame Rate, Encoder, Bitrate; Audio Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder, Bitrate, etc to meet your specific needs.

Free YouTube Downloader and Converter for Mac

In case that you want to put YouTube videos into your slideshow project, I'd like to share with you a totally free YouTube Downloader for Mac OS X. This Mac YouTube downloader freeware is developed by Clone2Go. It aims to help Mac users to download videos from YouTube as MP4, FLV or 3GP files in a snap. Click here to download it now!

Also take a look at the screenshot of the program:



If you are fond of YouTube videos, you cannot miss this YouTube Downloader for Mac. It sounds great to download all your favorite online movies, TV shows or music videos from YouTube in a batch and enjoy them later on. It helps you to save bandwidth and there are no annoying ads at the beginning of the video any more.

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How to create photo slideshow movie for sharing on YouTube?

How to Add iTunes DRM Music to Your Slideshow Project

If you are building a photo DVD slideshow project and want to add iTunes DRM music (m4p) as the background music, you will be faced with the nasty DRM issue. One way to resolve it is to burn iTunes DRM music to an audio CD and rip it back as MP3. Then you will be able to import the output MP3 file into the slideshow and use it as the background music. However, it is a waste of CD discs if you have lots of music tracks needed to be burned and re-ripped.

Another way is to go and download TuneClone Audio Converter to help you easily and quickly convert iTunes music to mp3 via virtual CD burning. There is no need for CD discs and it fully supports batch conversion. The original music tracks in your iTunes library will be kept intact. And the meta information of the music will be well preserved.



Follow this guide to learn how to get your iTunes music DRM free.

How to convert swf to html5

Swiffy is a new experimental tool from Google that easily converts SWF Flash files to HTML5, making Flash-only content accessible to hardware like the iPhone and iPad in just a few seconds.

The following guide shows you how to convert SWF to HTML5 using Google's Swiffy:

1. Visit Google Swiffy

2. Upload a SWF file

Click the "Browse..." button to choose a SWF Flash file from your local hard drive



3. Convert SWF to HTML5

Click the "Upload and convert" button to start converting SWF to HTML5. Then you can right click the link of the output HTML5 file and save it to your computer.

Please take note the output currently only works in Webkit browsers (Safari and Chrome, for example). And Swiffy currently does not convert SWF files larger than 512 KB.

If you want to create a swf photo slideshow for showing on your website, please refer to this guide: How to create swf photo slideshows for websites.