Alec CourosOpen Thinking · Professor of Education (EdTech, Media, Digital Pedagogy, OpenEd, GenAI)

From Youtube to iMovie

Name: From Youtube to iMovie
Uploaded: 2009-02-09T21:22:15+00:00
Duration: 1 min 12 s
Channel: Alec Couros
Description: A short how-to video (uploaded by Alec Couros) demonstrating how to download a YouTube video and import it into iMovie for editing. The speaker shows…

9 Feb 2009 · 1 min

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A short how-to video (uploaded by Alec Couros) demonstrating how to download a YouTube video and import it into iMovie for editing. The speaker shows changing the video URL to www.pwnyoutube.com, choosing "Download high quality video MP4" (not FLV), saving the file, then dragging the MP4 into iMovie (mentions iMovie 06 and 08).

Questions this video answers

Insert "pwn" before "youtube" (example: www.pwnyoutube.com).

Download the high-quality MP4 (do not use FLV).

iMovie 06 and iMovie 08 (the speaker says they have not tried iMovie 09).

Chapters

Hi Josh, I just noticed you asked on Twitter how you can get a YouTube video to iMovie and edit it there. It's pretty simple. Just go to the URL of the YouTube video that you're at and then right before YouTube.com type in three letters. So it'll be www.pwnyoutube.com and that will work for pretty much any video. And then all you do is you click on Download high quality video MP4, not the FLV because you won't be able to edit it in imovie. So I'll click on that and it saves for you. Now I've already done that, so I'm going to hit cancel. Then you take your imovie. Now this is iMovie 06, but it works just as well in iMovie 08. I haven't tried it in 09 yet, but I'm going to just drag and drop this video here and in about a minute or so I think this is recording. It basically downloads. I just cut out a little piece there and it should work just fine. So I'll just hit play and see how that works. Works fine and it's ready to edit in imovie.