Easy Setup to Import YouTube files

Hi--
I'm new to FCE4, having been studying Weynand's "FCE4: Movie Making for Everyone". In trying to import material to practice on (I'm not capturing from a camera), I'm running into conversion problems making sample subclips and trying to play them in the timeline. Is there a standard setting I should be using in Easy Setup? Or do I have to use the utility MPEG Streamclip that I've heard about? And are there any tips and tricks I should know about that?
Thanks in advance. I hope, since I'm a newbie, that I'm not bringing up something that's been done to death. I went back several months and didn't find anything super-relevant. Much obliged.
later,
John

Thank you for your response, Ian. I know that you are correct about YouTube downloads not being an ideal way to learn FCE4. But I am trying to create soundtracks (with original music, and perhaps dialogue and sfx) for pre-existing films, many of them silent, or replacing existing soundtracks. That would involve editing YouTube "footage." I don't shoot video myself.
So I'm assuming that Streamclip can output H.264 directly to the Apple Intermediate Codec? Also, is Streamclip "safe" to use? I am a little jumpy on the subject because my iMac got so completely corrupted last year that I had to start over, at great expense. But I do see that there are tutorials from a couple years ago right on this forum, so I probably don't have to worry, right??
(I'm such a wuss...)
Thanks so much, Ian!
later,
John

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