keepvid.com

Recently, my students have been working on a research project... basically they are creating a video and that is going to become the focus of a writing project. We have decided that remixing YouTube videos falls within the fair use clauses of copyright laws. We are, however, going to share our remixes only within our classroom to minimize potential conflicts in case we applied a too broad interpretation of fair use.

Anyways...  we are using keepvid which is a site that allows one to enter the URL of a YouTube video and then download it. We are downloading as .mp4 as we are going to put our videos together using iMovie.