How to Add YouTube Music to Adobe Premiere Pro? [ 5 Easy Steps! ]

Now you can import songs from YouTube Music into Premiere Pro projects.

By Lucy WongPublished about a year ago • 3 min read

As a popular music streaming service, YouTube Music is one of the best places to add music tracks to your video projects. In this tutorial, you will learn how to import YouTube Music to Premiere Pro projects. Let's get started.

Best Tool to Download YouTube Music As Local Files on Computer

According to the official website, Premiere Pro supports various audio file formats, including AAC, M4A, MP3, WMA, and WAV, etc. So, to use YouTube Music in Premiere Pro, you need to download YouTube Music to Premiere Pro-supported audio formats, like MP3. Fortunately, the Macsome YouTube Music Downloader will do the trick.

Macsome YouTube Music Downloader can download YouTube Music songs, albums, or playlists to your local computer with a Free account. As a professional YouTube Music Converter, Macsome also enables you to convert YouTube Music to MP3, AAC, or other plain audio formats with original quality. Therefore, you can easy to add YouTube Music songs to the Premiere Pro Project panel.

It also has the ability to keep the original metadata and ID3 tags, such as artist, album, and title. The smart tool supports downloading at 10X faster conversion speed.

5 Steps to Download YouTube Music to Premiere Pro for Editing

The comprehensive guide below will teach you how to download YouTube Music to Premiere Pro supported audio formats with Macsome YouTube Music Downloader. It is fully compatible with Windows and Mac computers. Before starting, please download the correct version on your computer according to your system.

Step 1. Access to YouTube Music Web Player

Install and launch Macsome YouTube Music Downloader, and tap the "Open YouTube Music Web Player" button. And you will access the built-in YouTube Music web player, then sign in to your YouTube Music account. This tool doesn't require a YouTube Music Premium account. No need to upgrade your account.

Step 2. Customize Settings Parameters

Click on the Settings icon in the top right, you can customize the output parameters as you need. You can select MP3 as the output format for Premiere Pro. There are other options that you can customize the output quality like the bit rate and sample rate.

Step 3. Select the Songs from YouTube Music to Download

You can directly add YouTube Music playlists that you'd like to use in Premiere Pro. Open the target playlist in your library, and click on the "Add to list" button, all the songs will be loaded. Select the tracks you want to download.

Step 4. Start to Download YouTube Music

Now you can start downloading YouTube Music songs by tapping the "Convert" button.

The conversion process will take some time, depending on the number of tracks in the queue and the network conditions. When the downloading is finished, click on the history option, and you will find all the downloaded files. Hover over the desired track in this list, click it, and you can open the output folder that consists of YouTube Music audio files.

Step 5. Import YouTube Music Songs to Premiere Pro Clips

Now you can use YouTube Music songs in Adobe Premiere Pro.

Open Premiere Pro, open your video project or start a new project. Add the desired videos to your project timeline. Click the "File" icon in the left toolbar and browse to find the YouTube Music tracks you want to add to your project. Or directly drag selected audio from the Finder and drop it below your videos to add music.