Last updated on 2014-01-26, by Irene

How to Download and Convert YouTube Video to Windows Movie Maker?

Windows Movie Maker is one of the video editing programs that make home-made videos, online videos with more individualized features. Online videos such as YouTube videos are awesome for watching. If these YouTube videos are equipped with some customized effect it will be quite fantastic and Windows Movie Maker is the software which can do you a favor. Then there are two questions: how to download YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker and how to convert YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker format?

As for the first question you may resort to any online video downloaders and as for the second question you can as well refer to any video converters. When you wish to accomplish these two steps within only one program, Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is your best choice. In order to edit YouTube videos with Windows Movie Maker, you should import YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker at first, so YouTube to Windows Movie Maker conversion is necessary. Let’s take a look at the formats Windows Movie Maker support.
Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv
Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .mlv, .mp2
Audio files: .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff
Windows media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv
MP3 format audio: .mp3

That is to say, to load YouTube to Windows Movie Maker you need to convert YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker compatible formats as mentioned above. Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is able to successfully download and convert YouTube videos on Win OS. You can also take Leawo YouTube Downloader for Mac if you are using Mac operating system. Get the right one to download and convert YouTube videos with ease.

Full Guide

 Download YouTube Video to Windows Movie Maker

Click on the Browse button and you will see the interface below. Add video URL to the address bar or search video in the searching box by using keywords. Then a download message window will pop up for you to conduct YouTube video download order.

Convert YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker

Click on the Video button and get to the panel below. Have a preview of the video with the built-in video player. Tab on the Convert button and choose one of the Windows Movie Maker compatible formats as the output. Start to do YouTube to Windows Movie Maker conversion right now.

 

View Video Conversion Process

Click on the Convert button and you will see the section below. Get access to the video conversion status in details here. After conversion, just start Windows Movie Maker and put YouTube video to Windows Movie Maker, now you can freely edit YouTube video with Windows Movie Maker.

Video GuideSoftware

YouTube Downloader
Provides one-stop solution to download, convert and manage online videos.
$29.95

Platfrom: Windows 7/Vista/XP
Go to YouTube Downloader for Mac

Extended Knowledge

Windows Movie Maker is a totally free video creating/editing program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Features including effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration and Auto Movie are with it.