Click “Edit” button and the “Video Editor” window will pop up, and you can do some basic pre-editing work with the tabs like “Trim,” “Crop,” “Text Watermark,” “Image/Video Watermark,” “Effects,” “Subtitle,” etc. Some YouTube videos may include ads and other annoying extras, or you may just want to extract some clips in the downloaded YouTube video for conversion, the “Trim” function in the built-in “Video Editor” can do great help for you. Then click the format bar to pick an appropriate output format under “Final Cut Pro,” “iMovie and Final Cut Express,” “Avid Media Composer,” etc. Before choosing an output format for your editing software, just check its supported file types first by going to its official site. Launch YouTube video converter for Mac and add the videos you have downloaded from YouTube website by clicking “File” > “Add Video/Audio.”Įach editing system only allows for importing and editing native video formats. How to import YouTube videos to iMovie, FCP, Premiere, Avid, Kdenlive, Resolve? Step 1.