

If you've downloaded the videos from YouTube and want to edit them in iMovie, please refer to Part 1 to get your videos accepted by iMovie. That means to add YouTube files to iMovie, you'll first need to convert YouTube video to iMovie supported video formats.

Get puzzled and look for ways to import videos from YouTube to iMovie (iMovie 11)? Let's talk about how to solve the problem on Mac OS X (Mavericks).Īs we know, videos downloaded from YouTube are mostly in FLV format while iMovie supported video formats are MPEG-2, AVCHD, DV-Standard, HDV, QuickTime Movie and MPEG -4. However, when you try to import YouTube videos to iMovie for further editing, you'll find that your videos gray out. And sometimes it's great to make those videos more stylish with the fabulous video editing software, iMovie.

YouTube has made video sharing easier and more popular than ever and there are millions of interesting videos shared every day.
