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Step 1. Download Free YouTube Download

This is a clearly free program. There is no spyware or adware. It's absolutely safe to install and to run!

Step 2. Launch Free YouTube Download

Follow Start > All Programs > DVDVideoSoft > Programs > Free YouTube Download or click the DVDVideoSoft Free Studio icon on the desktop.

The interface is very simple and self explaining. There is a field for YouTube Video links, a field for an output path, and the Download button.

Step 3. Add YouTube Video Links

Use your Internet browser to select and copy YouTube link you want to download.

Click the Paste button and wait a few seconds while the program is detecting YouTube video.

If you download many videos at one time it can be useful to save the list of these YouTube links.

Just make the right click of the mouse and select the Save list... item or press Ctrl+S.

Step 4. Select Output Options

Click the Browse... button and choose the location where you would like to save your downloded video files from YouTube. Click Ok.

By default the output file name is the same as YouTube video title is. If you want to change it click the Output Name... button. The new window will be opened.

There are some parameters in it (Name Prefix, Postfix and others) witch you can set as you like.

In the bottom of this window you can see the pattern of the output file name. It's formed according the current options.

Note: the pattern is the same for all output files during one session, it's not allowed to set the unique pattern for each file.

Step 5. Select Output Format Preset

In the list of Presets select one of the available pre-configured presets.

You can specify the output video file format as FLV, AVI or MP4.

Step 6. Setting Options (optional)

There are some options you can set as you like.

Tick the "Auto-paste URLs from the Clipboard" parameter and all YouTube links from the Clipboard will be detected and added to the program automatically.

Tick "Use proxy server" option to use a proxy server. Then enter Address and Port.

You can find information about proxy Address and Port in your browser settings.

Internet Explorer users go to Tools->Internet Options->Connections tab->LAN Settings...

Firefox users go to Tools->Options->Network tab->Settings...

You can also contact your network administrator for this information.

Step 7. Download Video

When you are ready, click the Download button along the bottom of the interface and wait just a few seconds or several minutes max (depending on your internet connection speed).

Now the YouTube video is on your computer.

Step 8. Convert Video to Other Formats or Burn to DVD (optional)

When you have a downloaded video on the hard drive, you can convert it to other video formats or burn it to dvd using AVS Video Converter.

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