How to Import YouTube Video to iMovie for Successful Editing?

YouTube to iMovie Converter: Download and Convert YouTube Video to iMovie Format

Downloaded some useful YouTube videos and want to import them to iMovie for editing, but failed?Have import issues when trying to import your YouTube video to iMovie? The following YouTube to iMovie converter easily helps to convert any downloaded YouTube video to iMovie more supported MOV or MP4 for compatibly importing your YouTube video to iMovie.

Nowadays, sometimes we need to download some online video files and then transfer them to iMovie to add it to our videos. When sourcing video files, YouTube is a good website on which many types of video files can be found there. However, many people also encountered incompatibility issue when they import these downloaded YouTube videos to iMovie for editing. The failure is normally caused by unsupported YouTube video format. We know that when you download YouTube videos, usually the default formats will be FLV, MP4, and WebM, but not all these video formats are supported by iMovie. From Apple website, we learn that iMovie only supports limited video formats, including MP4, MOV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc and among which MOV and MP4 formats with H.264 and MPEG-4 codecs are well supported by iMovie and other video formats may have incompatibility issue with iMovie.

How to Solve YouTube Video not Importing to iMovie?

When your downloaded YouTube video is not supported by iMovie, you can use a professional YouTube to iMovie downloader and converter to solve that. With this converter, you can easily convert your YouTube video to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4 with H.264 or MPEG-4 codec.

Allavsoft is just the professional YouTube to iMovie converter we are talking about. With this Allavsoft, you can easily download as well as convert YouTube video to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4 with H.264 or MPEG-4 codec. And you will have no quality loss during this conversion process.

YouTube to iMovie Converter - Allavsoft

  1. Allavsoft can directly download and convert online YouTube videos to iMovie more supported video format like MP4 or MOV.
  2. Besides converting YouTube video to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4, this converter also supports to download and convert online videos videos, like Vimeo video, Facebook video, Yahoo video, etc to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4.
  3. Batch conversion function is provided to download and convert many YouTube videos to iMovie MOV or MP4.
  4. 90X faster conversion speed is given to convert YouTube video to iMovie video.
  5. Download and convert YouTube video or music files to iMovie supported MP3 audio format.
  6. 100% safe and clean conversion feature to convert YouTube video to iMovie MOV or MP4.
  7. Many video editing features are also provided to edit your YouTube video before the conversion or the exported MOV or MP4.

Guide on Converting YouTube Video to iMovie MOV or MP4

You can follow the guide below to easily convert your downloaded YouTube video to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4.

Make Preparation: Free download YouTube to iMovie Converter

Free download the professional YouTube to iMovie Downloader and Converter - Allavsoft (for Windows, for Mac), install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Import YouTube Video link to Allavsoft

Your downloaded YouTube video can be simply imported to this converter by clicking the Add File button. You can also use the Drag&Drop feature to import the YouTube video file.

Step 2 Specify MP4 or MOV as output video format

iMovie best supported MP4 H.264, MOV H.264, etc can be easily set as the output format after you click the Profile button>General Video category.

Step 3 Complete the YouTube video file to iMovie MP4 or MOV conversion work

You can click the Convert button to get your downloaded YouTube video easily converted to iMovie best supported MOV or MP4.