How to Convert YouTube Videos to QuickTime on Mac

YouTube is so popular and there are hundreds of thousands interesting videos on it. You may have downloaded some videos from YouTube and want to play them using QuickTime. However, usually, videos downloaded from YouTube are in FLV video format, but QuickTime doesn’t support FLV. Well, don’t worry about it. In order to play YouTube video in QuickTime player, you need to convert YouTube video to QuickTime friendly video format like MOV and MP4 first. And this article will tell you how to convert YouTube FLV videos to QuickTime supported videos formats like MP4, MOV, etc. so that you can play YouTube videos with QuickTime player.

To convert YouTube video to QuickTime on Mac, a professional Mac YouTube to QuickTime Converter is necessary. YouTube to QuickTime Converter for Mac is such a great Mac YouTube Video to QuickTime Converter to convert downloaded YouTube FLV videos to QuickTime on Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion etc. It can also convert between all other video formats like WMV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MTS, VOB, MPEG, etc.

Just download the Mac YouTube video to QuickTime video Converter and follow the steps below to download and convert YouTube video for QuickTime playback.

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How to convert YouTube videos to QuickTime supported videos on Mac

Step 1. Add downloader YouTube videos to the Mac YouTube to QuickTime Converter

Click File -> Add Video Files or easily drag-and-drop the videos you want to convert to the program. As the below picture shows, you can preview the added videos on the right. And all videos will be displayed in thumbnails on the left list pane..

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Step 2. Select MOV as output format

Click the image button on the right of each video item, set the name of the output file and select MOV as the output format from the "Format" list. MOV is highly compatible with QuickTime and this output format is suggested. Of course, you can also choose other QuickTime supported video formats like MP4, 3GP, etc. But because of the video and audio codecs, other video formats may be not accepted by QuickTime.

Step 3, Start to convert YouTube video to a QuickTime-compatible video format on Mac

Click "Convert"->"Start Conversion" so the YouTube Converter will convert YouTube to QuickTime for Mac OS X.

After the conversion, you can play the YouTube videos with QuickTime and just enjoy it!

Note: This Mac Video Converter could not only import YouTube FLV files to QuickTime, but also convert other popular video formats like WMV, MKV, HD MP4, M2TS, MTS, etc.