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How to Convert YouTube Video to MP4

With YouTube, you can visit it every day for fun, news, videos or whatever. Chances are that you sometimes want to convert the YouTube videos to MP4 files for your multimedia devices, like iPod, iPhone or PSP, so that you can watch it on the move.

This guide aims to telling you how to free download YouTube video and convert YouTube to MP4 for your iPod, iPhone, PSP or other MP4/MP3 players.

How to free download YouTube video?

There are two way to free download YouTube video:
1. with free online flv downloader
2. with firefox

How to converter YouTube video to MP4/MP3 for your MP4/MP3 player?

YouTube video is usually in FLV format, which is a preferred file format that is designed for web playback. To playback YouTube video on your iPod, iPhone, PSP or other devices, you can't download it as MP4 file directly, but need a video converter to convert it to MP4 format.

Download Aimersoft Video Converter here>> then insatll and run it.

1 Load YouTube videos

Click to browse your computer hard drive, and upload Youtube video files you want to convert. You can also import video fiels from devices (like USB, MP4 Player, etc.)directly.

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2 Edit the downloaded YouTube video (Optional)

Click or on the top of the main interface, you can then customize the videos.

Crop -You can crop the frame size and get what you want by setting the video zoom to full screen, 16:9, 3:4 or others.

Trim - you can easily trim your Youtube video into multiple segments by moving the sliders or just typing the number in manually.

Add effect -Configure the brightness, contrast, saturation, and add special effects like Gray, Emboss, Negative, Old Film to personalize your Youtube video.

Add watermark- If you want to add some image or text watermark to decorate your Youtube video, you can click "Watermark". It also allows you to configure the parameters such as transparency, vertical space, and horizontal space.

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Tips: If you want to rotate your video to be normal, you only need to upgrade to Aimersoft Video Converter Professional, which adds the function of 90°/270°contraclockwise rotation of the video.

3 Set the output options as MP4 or MP3 format

Select the proper output format and destination folder for your YouTube video. Here we choose MP4 AVC (*.mp4). You can also choose the format in the category of iPod, iPhone or PSP.

To satisfy your every need, it allows you to configure the resolution, frame rate, bit rate to maintain the high quality of YouTube video.

4 Start to convert YouTube video to MP4.

Simply click , you can start your conversion from Youtube Video to MP4. After the conversion, you can easily share your edited DV videos with your friends and family by creating DVDs. Enjoy the excellent experience brought by the Youtube Video to MP4 Converter.