converting YouTube stuff to usable video for Macs.

I'm going to start keeping track of things here whenever I figure something out, as I realize I'll figure out something, think I'll remember forever, then forget six months later.

Today I needed to download a YouTube video to use in a temp edit. I knew that Download Helper, a Firefox plug-in, would save YouTube videos; however, it saves them in the highly useless-for-digital-video-editing .flv format.

So! Part 2: get a converter for .flv to a usable format. In this case, I found iSquint, which can convert to AVIs or QuickTime movies. Both very usable! And it's super intuitive. And free! If it weren't overburdened with desperate pleas for using its pay cousin, it would be my favorite app ever!

(Well, probably not, but it's still cool.)