YouTube is wonderful. It's capacity to accumulate large amounts of video clips in one place while providing free access to content has made this website extremely popular on the Web. And since the variety of videos is rich, it's pretty easy to find a movie or music video you want to watch. In fact for some videos, YouTube is the only place where you can find them. That's because many of today's musicians, for example, choose to promote their songs on a free video sharing resource to gain popularity and attention of producers.

So, YouTube brings lots of interesting and exclusive content but you can watch it only online. However many people wish they could download video clips, movies and cartoons to their PC, without having to go to YouTube again and again. To download YouTube videos, all one needs is a good YouTube converter. RealPlayer provides a convenient tool to extract and download YouTube video for free. The software can help you download online video, cut out boring parts, convert it for different devices like iPhone, iPad, smart phones and play video.

To get things started, you need to download and install RealPlayer from http://www.realplayer.com. The program comes in two editions: Free and Premium. To download YouTube video, the free version is enough.

Once installed, the YouTube converter seamlessly integrates with the browser. When you want to save a YouTube video to hard disk, you click the "Download This Video" button and the download starts.

Now let's say, for example, you want to download a fitness workout tutorial from YouTube. To begin, find the workout on YouTube and click "Download This Video".

This opens the downloader dialog and starts the download process that you can control using the progress bar.

You can sit back and watch the process go. Hopefully it's not long.

Now move the mouse pointer over the video and you will see several commands. You can, for example, trim the video to cut out unnecessary parts, convert it to a variety of video and audio formats, burn to CD / DVD disk, or post to Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace to share the video with friends and followers.

We choose to convert and click Convert. This opens the dialog where you can select the output format

The program offers many presets for different mobile devices, such as Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Google Nexus, HTC, iPad, Zune, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Xbox, PlayStation, MP3 player and others. The good thing about presets is that you do not need to configure conversion settings yourself - just select the required device and start the conversion.

Select the format from the drop-down menu (in our case it is WMV). Set the output folder and click Start. Once the process finishes, you can find the video in the output folder and watch it offline.

Now you can download YouTube converter and try it yourself: http://www.realplayer.com