Hey guys,
So last night, several patrons were working on a class project that involved importing videos from YouTube onto iMovie as well as pictures from the internet.
One patron was having trouble importing clear images into her project. To fix this problem, we needed to go back into Google images and narrow our search down to "large" pictures. The images that she had been searching were too small for iMovie resulting in extremely pixelated images. With a more narrowed down search we quickly fixed this issue.
But the problem of importing YouTube videos was not as simple. Mike assisted me in helping the one patron, which allowed me to help others with the same issue.
Videos can be downloaded by highlighting the "Tools" to "downloadhelper" to "media" to "download." But sometimes the videos downloaded in an "FLV" format. This will not be iMovie compatible and users are required to convert the files to MP4.
We opened the program "Adobe Media Encored" located in "applications" on the Mac. We then "added" the downloaded file saved to the desktop (or wherever it was saved to).
You will want to change the "format" from FLV to H.264. This will automatically change "preset" to YouTube. Your file is ready to convert -- so hit "Start Queue."
If this file says it will require an hour to download, it is too big. You may want to try and download a smaller version of the file when you download from downloadhelper.
Once it is converted to MP4 -- you are ready to import into iMovie!
Thanks for posting this up Nicole. The program is called Adobe Media Encoder though!
ReplyDeleteA couple thoughts:
ReplyDelete--If the user wants to make sure they only get MP4 files from YouTube, they can follow these steps. When you search for videos, if you look at the top of the search results theres is a button that says "Filters". Click on the Filters, and then click "HD (high definition)". Now only HD videos will show. When they find a video they want to download, they should choose an HD version. These will be clearly marked [720p] or [1080p], and will always be a MP4 file!
--If they do need to convert a FLV to MP4, Handbrake is dead simple, and a bit less intimidating than Media Encoder. To turn anything into an MP4 with Handbrake, you simply open the program, pick the file you want to convert, and press "Start".
Nico