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Join YouTube videos for iPods?

multimoogmultimoog Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So I'm grabbing a series of videos off YouTube, but I want to convert them into one long movie to play on an iPod. Is this possible on a Mac?

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  • contrabandcontraband Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    What format does it save the videos in?

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  • multimoogmultimoog Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    To put it on an iPod, it'd have to be MP4.

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  • multimoogmultimoog Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So nobody else has tried or needed to do this?

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  • CrashtardCrashtard Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Last I hear Mac's come standard with video editing software, if so you can use that to join the videos together I would imagine. I don't know what format you're saving the videos as, and I don't know whether they will work with the built in mac software.

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  • ApexMirageApexMirage Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    you can probably just google "FLV to MP4" and then merge them with the video editing stuff you should have on your mac.

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  • Giga GopherGiga Gopher Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You could always make a video playlist and then just number each video so they play in the order you want. But if you do just want them as one long video then I recommend www.downloadyoutubevideos.com for getting the FLV and then iSquint for converting them to MP4. After you've got all your videos I'd use either Quicktime Pro's basic video editing options (which are quite user friendly) or iMovie to arrange the clips.

    From either program you can export the video as an MP4, but I'm sure you already knew this.

    Edit: Actually, Quicktime Pro can open FLV's, so if you have Pro that'll save you the trouble of converting them to MP4 before merging the video.

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  • multimoogmultimoog Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I did tryimporting some MP4s into iMovie, but got the message that they were of an unsupported filetype. Strange.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Not sure if it supports that video format, but I just started using VisualHub to stitch videos together - works pretty well.

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