How to download and convert YouTube to Video and DVD

Most of us go to Youtube website to watch Youtube videos. But have you thought about downloading videos from Youtube and watch them on your mobile players or TV ? The following are the three steps to get the job done:
1. Download YouTube Video using online site or free tools.
2. Convert YouTube videos to iPod, iPhone, PSP and other video formats.
3. Burn YouTube video to DVD

Part1 . Download YouTube Video using online site or free tools.
1. Free Online Conversion
Some websites provide free download of Youtube videos. The following are three of them:
http://vixy.net/
http://keepvid.com/
http://www.zamzar.com/

Step1. Take http://vixy.net/ for example, open the website.
Step2. Visit http://www.youtube.com to find your need video,copy the URL
(e.g, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaue-CuNgZg&feature=related ) from the Address field of your Internet browser, or copy the link from the RED dialog box.

Step3. Paste the link at the URL field of http://vixy.net/ after you open this website, select a conversion format from the “
Convert to” field, and click OK to start the download and conversion. After it is finished, you will see a link “Download the converted video”, click this link and save the final video on your computer.

Note: This is a very easy way to download and convert Youtube movies, but the conversion speed may not be very desirable and
you can only download one file at a time.

2. Free Download Tool
Go to the site to download Free YouTube Downloader. This software can automatically detect Youtube movies that have been
opened and can download multiple files at a time. See the screenshot below:

Make sure you turn the recorder on, so every Youtube movie can be automatically added to download. By default, the downloaded
files are saved under C:\Program Files\Wondershare\Free YouTube Downloader\Categories. You can also sort your files using the sub-categories.

Note: If you want to watch the downloaded videos on your mobile devices, you can click the “Convert” button to upgrade it to YouTube Downloader, then you can convert them or your local FLV files to the formats supported by your mobile devices such as
iPod, iPhone, cell phone, MP4 player and so on.

Part 2. Convert YouTube videos to iPod, iPhone, PSP and other video formats.
To convert Youtube movies to different formats for your mobile players:
As mentioned above, the three websites can do both download and conversion. So the first method is to directly use the above-mentioned three websites to convert Youtube movies to the formats that your players support.
You may also want to find a conversion tool that can convert downloaded Youtube movies, which are in FLV format. In this case, you can do a search on google with the key words of “FLV to video” and see what you can find. There are various FLV conversion tools available. If you also want to edit your Youtube movies before converting them, you can give Wondershare Video Converter a try. See the screenshot below:

You can follow the steps below to use this software:
Step1. Add Files
Click the Add button to add the saved FLV files from your computer hard disc.
Step2. Edit Movie
Crop Movie: You can crop a Youtube movie if it has black sides. Just drag the crop frame (in broken line) and the video area within the crop frame will be what you get finally. See the screenshot below:

Set Movie Effect: If you want to change the original brightness, contrast and saturation. You can also select a special video effect, say Emboss, to apply to a movie. See the screenshot below:

Step3. Convert
Select an output format according to your mobile device from the “format” drop-down list, and click “Start” to start the conversion. All the converted files can be found at the output directory (C:\Program Files\Wondershare\Video Converter Platinum\Output by default).

- Part3. Burn youtube video to a DVD
  After downloading the videos to your local computer, download Video to DVD Burner for creating a DVD. If you want to burn Videos to a DVD, there are four steps to help you finish the job.
- Step 1: Organize your slideshow
  Click the 'Load file' button to load the video files you want to burn. Then drag & drop the loaded files from the Collections pane to the slideshow storyboard to start organize your slideshow. You can sort the order of the video files in a slideshow by drag them in the storyboard. Click the Add Slideshow button (the first button from the left above the storyboard).
- Step 2: Apply Effects
  Click the Effect tab and you will see all the available transitions in the Effect pane, to apply a transition, you can just drag and drop it to into the slideshow storyboard.

Step 3: Customize DVD menu (Optional)
Click the Menu tab to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.

Step4. Start Burning
After you finish the three steps above, click the Burn tab to prepare for burning your project to blank DVDs, then you can share the programs to your, friends and others.
For the part 2, if you are a Mac user, you can download the Mac DVD Creator to burn your DVD.

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