How to Download YouTube Videos on Mac and Get It on Your iPod

There are so many good videos on YouTube.com, but how to get the favorite videos as a local copy on Mac, how to download YouTube videos for your iPod?

Watching YouTube videos on your iPod is easy with the simple steps presented below, you'll find it would be much easier if you know how to download YouTube video and convert it to MP4 for your iPod with YouTube Downloader for Mac software.

What we need

An iPod: iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPod Classic, etc.
Mac with 1G Hz or above Intel processor, and 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or more.

A powerful Mac YouTube downloader and converter such as YouTube Downloader for Mac

Note: If you are using Windows and want to download YouTube Video and convert YouTube Videos to iPod, you can refer to Video Converter Ultimate for Windows.

Part 1: How to free download YouTube videos on Mac OS X

1 Run YouTube Downloader for Mac

Run the YouTube Downloader on Mac, this software support download online videos from many video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo!Video, Reuters.com, Metacafe, MySpace Video, Vimeo, Gofish, Break, etc.

2 Open the YouTube video page which you want to download

This program will automatically detect the video and download it when it starts to play. So you just need open the page which you want to download. That's it!

Tips: You can open multiple video pages to download multiple files at the same time

Part 2: How to convert the downloaded videos to MP4 for your iPod, iPod Nano/Touch

1 Select the file you want to convert

Click the "Convert" button to convert the selected file

After you click the "Convert" button, select iPod MP4 output format from the drop-down list of "Format Preset", this YouTube downloader for Mac support 5 different "iPod format" for iPod users.

2 Choose an output folder, and then click "OK" to start the conversion

With this YouTube Downloader for Mac, you can also convert the FLV videos on your Mac to the format you need. If you want convert any DVD/audio/video to your iPod, this powerful DVD Video Converter for Mac may help you.