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Alexa writes:

I down­loaded some videos from youtube and they are cur­rently in flv for­mat. I’d like to put them into a pow­er­point, and I think I need to con­vert them to mpeg, or some­thing. But I don’t know how to do that or what pro­gram to use.
Thanks!

I get asked this ques­tion all the time. YouTube is an amaz­ing resource until you need to use one if its videos offline or in a presentation.

And that’s where vixy.net saves the day.

Vixy con­verts flash videos to a few dif­fer­ent for­mats, includ­ing .avi and .mov. It’s super straight for­ward to use:

1. Copy the URL (web address) of the page where the orig­i­nal video is
2. Paste the URL into the appro­pri­ate field, pick a for­mat, then hit start.
When Vixy is fin­ished con­vert­ing the file, it will allow you to down­load the video!
A few quick tips:
–I rec­om­mend using .avi if you’re a Win­dows user and .mov if you’re a Mac user.
–Don’t expect per­fec­tion; YouTube’s videos aren’t that high of qual­ity to start with, and you will lose more qual­ity when you con­vert the video to a down­load­able form.
–This works with any flash site that uses stream­ing flash videos, like Daily Motion, Meta­Cafe, etc.
–Depend­ing on the length of your video and how busy Vixy is, con­ver­sion and down­loads may take a while.
–This won’t work if you copy the address of a page where the video is embed­ded. You have to go straight from the source!
–Vixy can get a lit­tle glitchy; if at first you don’t suc­ceed, try, try again.