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YouTube is an online video-sharing platform that was founded in America. YouTube is now the largest online video site in the global context, it allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. Most content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals, but there are also many official videos released by some famous media who have a partnership with YouTube.
Since YouTube is an online video site, downloads or offline stream hasn’t been allowed so far. But there have already been a lot of users asking the questions like “How can I download YouTube videos or music to my computer”. Although you can find many interesting videos on YouTube, the download feature has never been added to it, you can only watch the videos on the YouTube website or mobile applications with a network connection. Nevertheless, we have a powerful but easy-to-use tool for you to download YouTube videos instantly to your computer in MP4 format so that you can watch the downloaded videos offline and transfer to any other devices, and most importantly, this program is completely for free.
The free tool mentioned above is NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader. It's equipped with the most advanced HD video downloading core, helping users download any audio and video from YouTube, and save them to your computer in MP4 format.
Tips: You can convert the downloaded mp4 file to any other format with Any Video Converter.
Currently, the program is available on both Windows and Mac PC. Please download NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader first before getting started, and follow the steps below:
Run YouTube Video Downloader on your PC, and then copy and paste the video link from YouTube or enter the keywords of videos to NoteBurner YouTube Video Downloader, and then press "Enter" on your keyboard.
Click the 
button on the upper right corner to customize the video quality (High, Medium, Low), subtitle language, simultaneous download, and output path.
The program will list all downloads option in the "Advanced Download" window. All you need to do is tap the icon 
, followed that a window will pop up allowing you to select the corresponding video or audio in different output format & quality.
If you want to download a video, you need to choose Download as Video in the bottom left corner. Also, you can select the audio and subtitle options in their corresponding columns. If you want to download an audio file, you can choose Download as Audio. You cannot select options in the Video and Subtitle columns. NoteBunrer also allows you to download subtitles as separate files. To do that, simply choose Download as Subtitles.
After completing the above steps, now the final step is clicking the download icon to start downloading the video to the output folder that you set in step 2.
Once you have completed the download, you can find the downloaded video by going to the "Library" section or just open the output folder.
If you are also looking for a tool to download Netflix videos, we do have a recommendation for you to download the movies or TV shows from Netflix. Netflix Video Downloader works the same pattern as YouTube downloader, you can simply search the video or copy the URL link from Netflix, and the videos will be downloaded right away.
Note: NoteBurner strictly complies with the US copyright regulations. We adopt a leading technology to record unencrypted video without any protection being circumvented.
