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How to download YouTube Video to iPad 2 on Mac OS X Lion

Millions of people like to spend more than 3 hours on the video sharing website YouTube. They explore all kinds of video news, funny videos and upload there own-made video to YouTube for other users. When you find a nice YouTube video in your work day so that you don't have enough time to watch online. Or you want to get the video file offline from YouTube and put it onto your current project. Or after a day long working and you feel so tired. Why not download the video from YouTube and upload to iPad or iPad 2, watch them when you have time and enough energy.

How to download YouTube Video to iPad 2 on Mac OS X Lion

Yes, download all kinds of HD video from YouTube and get them to iPad 2 on Mac so that you can watch them when you are waiting but, in the subway station or when your are in the air. Just image that you bring your iPad to the park and lie under the sun and enjoy the latest movie or video you download from YouTube. It is wonderful.


To download YouTube video offline, you need special YouTube video to iPad 2 downloader software on Mac. Here we use iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac, which can help you download videos (HD videos supported) from YouTube, FaceBook, TNT, BREAK, Google Video, and many other video-sharing sites opened in Safari. By downloading the video from YouTube and save on your Mac computer. You can also convert the video file or movie to any other video format for your MP4 player, iPad/iPhone/iPod, burn to DVD, transfer to other media player, use them on smart phone or transfer them to your video project.

  • Download videos/movie from YouTube and almost all video-sharing websites you can open with Safari
  • Convert downloaded videos for iPad/iPad 2, iPod, iPhone (iPhone 4S) and more
  • Play and manage downloaded videos or flash videos on your Mac's hard drive
iSkysoft iTube Studio for Mac

Download Videos from YouTube for iPad/iPad 2 on Mac OS X Lion now

This YouTube downloader for iPad is fully compatible with Mac OS X lion. You need open the YouTube video with Sarafi. Besides, iTunes is required when you are using this application.

Install iTube Studio for Mac

Launch iTube Studio for Mac installer and a wizard will guide you through the setup process. iTube Studio for Mac will automatically launch when installation finished.

Install YouTube downloader for iPad 2
Note: If you find you can't install to Mac OS X Lion, Make sure you get the latest version of YouTube downloader for iPad.


Download YouTube Videos Opened in Safari

Open YouTube site on Sarafi and open the URL that the page contain the video file you want. The Download button will show up at the top left corner of the video when it is detected on the webpage. iTube Studio offers three options for you to download YouTube videos:

A) Click the button and let the YouTube download wizard to do the thing for you. If you choose this mode. This YouTube downloader application will automatically download everything for you device and you can do something else.

Download YouTube video


B) When you open the URL on Sarafi, then you can drag the URL to the iTube Studio for Mac dock icon to start downloading.
C) Go to Download menu and choose Enter a URL, then click OK

Get the URL for YouTube Download on Mac

Note: You can let this app run background to do the task of downloading and conversion, and watch more cool videos on YouTube. Add new task to the download queue with a single click. To check the download process or find downloaded videos in Library, click the application dock icon to bring iTube Studio Download window on screen.


Convert Downloaded Videos to iPad/iPad 2 format

If you want to put YouTube downloaded video to Apple iPad/iPad 2 or iPhone/iPod. Please Choose a video format like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, etc. or audio format like MP3. To save your time and trouble, it provides a list of useful presets: Apple devices including iPad, iPad 2, iPad 3G, iPod, iPhone (iPhone 4S included), Apple TV; Apple Software like iMovie, iDVD, Final Cut Pro; and a variety of players like PSP, PS3 Xbox 360, PSP, PS3, Nintento Wii, Walkman, Creative Zen, Sandisk Sansa, etc. You can use the default settings or tweak it according to your needs.

Choose a format

Click Library on the left side of the iTube Studio window to see the downloaded videos on the right. Check the item(s) you would like to convert, either downloaded videos or FLV videos you added to the Library, and hit the Convert button at the bottom of the window.

Convert YouTube to iPad
After conversion, the video file will be saved on Mac OS X Lion folder, you can open it and see. Then you can launch iTunes on Mac OS X Lion and connect iPad or iPad 2 to it. Sync the video folder to iPad so that you can watch the video on iPad.





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