How to Download YouTube to MP4/MP3 Without Security Problem

Summary: Wonder to download YouTube to MP4/MP3? The post gives effective methods even without a downloader.

It’s well-known that YouTube is an abundant source of various video and audio contents platform. It hosts countless videos and songs with different types, ranging from how-to tutorials to live streaming videos/music. However, watching YouTube video online is not enough for you. As for saving YouTube videos, you may want to store the YouTube videos as an accessible MP4/MP3 format. Since many online downloaders have potential secure danger and rely too much on internet status, you are advised to look around.

When it comes to change video format, the first solution jumps into your mind to change video format must find a video converter. However, some YouTube video converters are really slow at converting and downloading and others are full of ads or confusing to use. Therefore, this post gives a much safer and more efficient solution and that is to download YouTube to mp4/mp3 formats with a YouTube recorder by screen recording.

Before we directly diving in the topic, let’s get one thorny issue out of the way. Is it legal to record YouTube video as MP4 or other formats? Frankly speaking, the answer is yes and no which depends on your status on YouTube activities. You are allowed to record your own original YouTube videos as well as public domain and non-copyrighted content. If you’re going to record YouTube contents from other uploaders, you need to get official permission from the content owner. Otherwise, you’re breaking the copyright policy. So please use the following method in the right way.

Brief introduction of RecMaster- the easiest YouTube recorder

RecMaster, which acts as a YouTube video and YouTube audio recorder, is an easy-to-use yet flexible YouTube recorder. The simplicity and ease of use make it the number one choice to carry out any YouTube recording actions for many non-tech guys since it does not require much technical know-how to record video/audio from YouTube. Moreover, it has a broad set of tools and functions to assist your YouTube screen recording. It embraces characteristics as below.

Key feature of the YouTube Recorder-RecMaster:

• ● Multiple recording modes for YouTube screen recording: full/custom area, audio recording, and webcam capture.
• ● Video files can be saved as MP4/AVI/FLV (for Windows) and MP4/MOV/M4V (for Mac).
• ● Support audio files as MP3/WAV (for Windows) and CAF/M4A (for Mac).
• ● Advanced tools including task schedule, mouse cursor and bundled editor.
• ● It’s as good looking as it’s functional.

Now let’s see how to download YouTube to MP4/MP3 by virtue of RecMaster.

How to Download YouTube to MP4 and other video Formats by Recording?

What is MP4 format and what are its features?

MP4 (also called MPEG-4) is a digital multimedia container format that is officially .mp4 file extension. It is generally used to store video and audio content and it can also act as a container of other data storage such as subtitles and still images. As the most compatible and accessible file format, it’s widely supported by almost all video-based applications. Owning to its popularity and compatibility, it’s the final video result of many users.

How to Record YouTube Video as MP4 and Other formats with RecMaster
Step 1: Download the software package of RecMaster to your computer and then follow the wizard to complete installation.

Step 2: Launch RecMaster, you can choose one of the five main functions on the main screen (Game mode is unique for Windows). Here Full screen mode is our suggestion to record YouTube video for better compatibility.

Step 3: The default video format choice is MP4 and you can also change the video format to AVI/FLV (Windows) and MOV/M4V (Mac). In the configuration interface, you can select the audio type you need to record such as System sound, Microphone, System and Microphone. Other settings like frame rate, quality and more can be decided as well.

Step 4: Play the video and click the REC button to start recording. If you don’t want to manually launch a YouTube recording task, you can leverage the task schedule tool to preset the recording duration so that it will automatically start.

Step 5: When you finish recording, you will see your audio recording file in the Recording list. You can do some editing in RecMaster to remove any silence or unwanted clips at the beginning.

Now you can record your YouTube video on PC/Mac as your desired MP4 or other video formats.

How to Download YouTube to MP3 and other Audio Formats?

As we mentioned above, MP4 is a container that includes both audio and video content. You’ve probably wanted to record audio from a video at least once before but had no way to do it because not all the screen recorders enable you to capture system sound during recording. Here you can use the YouTube MP3 recorder RecMaster to extract audio or directly record music from YouTube.

Here we will show you how to record YouTube videos as MP3 or other audio formats.

Step 1: Download and launch YouTube recorder RecMaster on your computer.

Step 2: Choose Audio Only mode to accomplish audio recording. Here MP3 is your audio file format by default. There are also other popular audio formats for you to choose: WAV (Windows), M4A/CAF (Mac). Don’t forget to turn on System sound icon on to capture YouTube audio.

Step 3: If there is no more actions to operate, you can begin your YouTube audio recording with REC. When the recording is over, you can end by clicking Stop button.

Conclusion

With RecMaster you can download YouTube to MP4 and also extract audio from your YouTube videos. This method is relatively safer and more workable for Windows and Mac desktop users. If you find other superior solutions please don’t hesitate to let us know.

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