How to Import YouTube Video into Premiere for Editing?

Watching YouTube videos is an indispensable part in digital life. With great diversities, you can find any videos you want within it. Most videos on YouTube are in FLV format which is not exactly like other videos that can be edited easily. For example, it is an invalid format for Adobe Premiere so that you are incapable of importing YouTube to Premiere for further editing directly. FLV is not accepted by Adobe Premiere but some video formats like AVI, MPEG, MOV, etc. are recognized by it. So to edit YouTube video with Adobe Premiere, you need to take a YouTube to Premiere Video Converter that can do you a favor to do video conversion.

Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is the right YouTube to Premiere freeware, which is capable of downloading and converting FLV videos to any Adobe Premiere compatible formats. For Mac users, Leawo YouTube Downloader for Mac is available. With the help of these two smart programs, YouTube to Premiere conversion can be accomplished for an instant, and you can put YouTube to Premiere Pro and other versions for extensive editing easy and fast. Get your wanted according to the operating system you are using and start YouTube video downloading and converting.

Full Guide

Download YouTube Videos

Take Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, the YouTube to Premiere freeware for an example. Feel free to download this software, install and run it. And then you will get into the first Browse panel where you can find videos on YouTube. To find out the wanted videos, two ways are approachable: 1). Add video URL to the address bar and go to it at once. 2). Add video keywords to the searching box and choose the ones you want. When you get into the video page, download video with the pop-up window at the right bottom.

Convert YouTube to Adobe Premiere

In order to edit YouTube video with Adobe Premiere, just convert it to the corresponding formats. Open the second Video panel and you can see the interface below. Click on the Convert button on this panel and you can pick up Adobe Premiere video formats such as AVI, MPEG, and MOV within the video profile window. Start to convert now.

Get Access to Video Conversion Status

Tab on the Convert button at the top of the program and get into the panel in the following. You can see video conversion details here. After conversion, activate Adobe Premiere and easy to import YouTube video into Premiere for more video editing features.

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

Adobe Premiere Pro is a video editing software application based on timeline, belongs to Adobe Creative Suite which including graphic design, video editing and web development applications. It supports many video editing cards and plug-ins for accelerated processing, additional file format support, and video/audio effects.