By Justin SabrinaUpdated on June 20, 2023

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When you browse the video on the YouTube website, you will find that there is no download button for you to download the video for enjoying without the Internet connection. Actually, YouTube allows users to watch and stream videos freely online. If you want to download a video from YouTube, it requires you to subscribe to YouTube Premium on a monthly basis, which costs $11.99 per month. During the subscription period, YouTube Premium provides unlimited access to YouTube videos and music, and users can download videos to play on their computers. Nevertheless, subscribers still cannot edit YouTube videos to their liking, because YouTube videos are protected by copyright.

If you don’t want to subscribe to YouTube Premium but want to download YouTube videos to play offline. Here will provide an easier way to save YouTube video to your computer, just capture it while watching or use a professional video downloader to download YouTube videos to your computer. After that, you can use the downloaded YouTube video at will, or edit YouTube video by adding some effects, make your video stand out and then upload to YouTube.

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Part 1: How to Download YouTube Videos to Computer

4kFinder is a versatile tool that plays the role of a video downloader, it can help you easily download videos from YouTube and other popular websites, including Dailymotion, Tumblr, Tube8, ReTube, Xvideos, SpankBang, PornHub, Veoh, xHamster, Vevo, Facebook, etc. This powerful tool allows you to download YouTube videos to MP4 in different resolutions, ranging from 108p to 3240p. More than that, it also lets you download the audio from YouTube and save as MP3 files. Let's see how it works!

Highlights of 4kFinder Video Downloader:

• Download YouTube videos, playlists, channels, subtitles to computer for free.
• Download videos from popular websites to computer.
• Download YouTube videos to MP4 or MP3 with high quality.
• Download YouTube videos in different resolutions: 8K/4K/ 1080p/720p/360p, etc.
• Save YouTube videos on computer for editing with ease.
• Play YouTube videos on any device anytime, anywhere.

Steps to Download YouTube Videos to Computer with 4kFinder:

In this part, we will guide you how to download videos, playlists channels from YouTube without YouTube Premium with the help of 4kFinder.

Step 1. Copy and Paste YouTube Video URL
First, install and launch the 4kFinder application on your computer. Open the web browser, copy the URL of your favourite YouTube video, then paste it in the search field of 4kFinder and click the "Analyze" button.

Step 2. Select Output Format and Resolution
After the analysis of video, it will come up with a list of video formats with the resolution, here you can select the preferred quality for your preference.

Tips: 4kFinder app also supports you to download YouTube video to MP4 and MP3 at the same time.

Step 3. Download YouTube Videos to Computer
Simply click the "Download" button to download YouTube videos to your computer with high quality.

When it's done, you can check the downloaded YouTube videos by clicking “Finish”.

Now all the downloaded YouTube videos will be saved on your local drive forever, and you can edit the download YouTube videos with using UkeySoft Video Editor, please turn to part 3 for editing YouTube videos for your preference. Please note that the downloaded or recorded video cannot be used for commercial purposes, only for personal entertainment.

Part 2: How to Record YouTube Videos on Computer

UkeySoft Screen Recorder makes it easy to record YouTube videos and save them on your computer. It is a perfect screen and webcam recorder for making video tutorials, product demos, sharing game experience through full screen recording, custom area recording or camera recording. The high-definition recording technology makes the quality of the recorded video close to the original work. In addition, it can also record video with system sound (speakers, headphones, etc.) and your voice (microphone). When it comes to recording YouTube videos, UkeySoft Screen Recorder helps you capture video sources from YouTube and output various video format files, including MP4 (H264), MP4 (MPEG4), FLV, AVI (H264), AVI (MPEG4), AVI (XVID), WMV, etc. In addition, you can also use streaming software to make live streams with your videos.

Steps to Record YouTube Videos on Computer

Step 1. Launch UkeySoft Screen Recorder
Install and launch the UkeySoft Screen Recorder on your computer, then select “Screen Recorder” from the home screen.

Step 2. Select the Computer Sound
There are four types of channels for you to choose to record video output channels, including "Computer sounds and microphone", "Computer sounds", "Microphone" and "None". If you want to download video from YouTube, please select Computer sound.

Step 3. Choose Output Format and Output Folder
Go to Settings, you can record YouTube videos as FLV, MP4, AVI and WMV, etc files. In the bottom column, you can customize the output path in the computer. As you can see, the hotkey settings in the top bar helps you record YouTube videos more quickly.

Step 4. Select the Recording Area
Return to the main page of the screen recorder, now you can record and capture YouTube videos according to your preferences. UkeySoft Screen Recorder helps you  gain high-definition YouTube videos by recording in with full screen, a specific recording area or camera.

Step 5. Start Recording Youtube Video on PC
Once it’s all set, click the “Record” icon to capture YouTube video right away. The video will start with the countdown in case the “Show countdown” option is enabled, and then the actual recording will be started.

Part 3: How to Edit Recorded/Downloaded YouTube Videos with Ease

UkeySoft Video Editor makes your video more personal. With its help, you can add some pre-designed special effects to the recorded YouTube video, add text titles or watermarks, split/clip/combine videos, add animated gifs, and add background music to the video. If you are an Apple music fan, you can use Apple Music as the background music of the video editor by converting DRM-ed M4P music to MP3 and other formats. Yes, you can also adjust the brightness, contrast, and saturation of the video to make the video more creative. If you haven't met your ideal video editor yet, it is strongly recommended that you add UkeySoft Video Editor to your shopping cart. Let's look at how this video editor works.

Steps to Edit YouTube Video using UkeySoft Video Editor

Step 1. Install and Launch UkeySoft Video Editor
First of all, install and launch the UkeySoft Video Editor on your computer. What you need to do is to add the downloaded YouTube videos to the program and you can do anything you want to make it more personal.

Step 2. Personalize Your Video
UkeySoft Video Editor helps you add various effects to YouTube videos so that you can make satisfactory videos, including cropping, rotating, adding subtitles and watermarks, adding/deleting music, carpenter, split, etc. After that, you can upload and share the video to the YouTube website.

Easy Cutter
Select Easy Cutter and click "Add File" to import YouTube videos. Then set the start and end points, click on "Cut" to create a video clip, and click "Start" to start cutting the video.

Batch Cutter
Select Batch Cutter and click "Add File" to load YouTube videos. You can set the start and end point, and keep or remove the selected part, apply the current setting to all videos. Click "Start" to begin cutting.

Advanced Cutter
Select Advanced Cutter and click "Add File" to load YouTube videos. Set the start and end point, keep or remove the selected part, crop the video, add watermark to video, apply the current setting to all videos. Click "Start" to begin cutting.

Join Video/Audio File
Select Joiner and click "Add File" to add YouTube video files. Adjust video sequence via up/down button and set the start and end point, choose output format, finally, click on "Join" start joining.

Crop Video File
Select Crop and click "Add File" to add YouTube video files. Adjust the crop area in the left or dragging the crop line directly. You can also cut or rotate the video, or add effects, watermark or subtitle to the video at the same time. Choose the output video format and click on "Start" to begin cropping video.

Split Video File
Select Split and click "Add File" to add YouTube video file you want to split. Select a split method and set the value. Click on "Split" > "Start" to start the the splitting process. Click on the "Open Output" to view your split video.

Rotate Video File
Select Rotate and click "Add File" to add YouTube video file. Select the degree by which you want to rotate: 90, 180 or 270 degrees. Next, choose the output format and click on "Start" button to start video rotating.

Add Watermark
Select Watermark and click "Add File" to add YouTube video files. Then, choose the the type of watermark that you want to add - Text or Picture or Video, Animated Gifs. After that, select the original or the other file type as output format and you can click on "Start" button to start adding watermark.

Add Subtitles
Select Subtitles and click "Add File" to add YouTube video files. Then, choose "Load Subtitle" drop-down menu to select the subtitle source file. Now, select the output format and click on Start" button to start adding subtitles to your video.

Add Effects
Select Effects and click "Add File" to add YouTube video file you want to add special effects to. You can adjust brightness/contrast/aaturation and other some pre-designed special effects to your video.  At last, click on "Start" to adding effects.

Add Music
Select Add/Remove Music and click "Add File" to add YouTube video file. Then click on "Load Music" to load music you want to add to the video and set music position or trim music. Finally, click on "Start" to begin adding music to video.

Remove Audio from Video File
Select Add/Remove Music and click "Add File" to add YouTube video file. You can tap on "Audio Channel" > "Mute" and click on "Start" to begin setting mute to video.

Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

Li Zhang is a sophisticated editor for UkeySoft in tech blog writing, as well as a SEO and content marketing expert. She has been writing related article about multimedia conversion, streaming music and streaming video since 2018. Also, she's starting to write article about data security, including articles about file lock, USB encryption, DVD encryption, etc. Each helpful tutorial and solution is based on her practical tests, she is aways energetic and trustworthy in this field.

Justin Sabrina

Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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