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I have been using a software called 'Video Download Studio' to convert You Tube footage so I can use it and edit on my Ulead 10.

I've been able to download the files onto my Ulead project but it is only giving me about 50 seconds to a minute instead of the 3 minute or so of the footage.

The converter gives me all these different profile options to covert it down with, ie- MPEG2 Movie-PAL(mpeg), WMA-Windows Media Audio (wma), ipod Video MPEG-4 (.mp4) etc....and a load more.

Have tried quite a few but still only gives me 50 odd seconds of the footage. Am I choosing the wrong format? Or is it something else i'm doing wrong?

Any help would be gratefully received, thanks

NOTE - I've never used Video Download Studio. (No relation to Corel/Ulead Video Studio.)

You said files, but just to make sure, have you tried downloading different videos/files? Or, is it one particular video that's giving you trouble?

Do the downloaded files play OK on Windows Media Player? If you're only getting 50 seconds with WMP, then it's a Video Download Studio problem.

The converter gives me all these different profile options to covert it down with, ie- MPEG2 Movie-PAL(mpeg), WMA-Windows Media Audio (wma), ipod Video MPEG-4 (.mp4) etc....and a load more.

...Am I choosing the wrong format?

Since you are having the exact same problem with all of the formats you've tried, I doubt that's the problem. What final-format do you want?

But, the highly-compressed formats tend to be the most difficult to edit or convert from. AVI/DV files (13GB per hour) are the easiest to edit/convert. (Not all "AVI" files are DV.) If it can't make an AVI/DV file, MPEG-2 is probably the 2nd best choice... Again, depending on what you are doing with the file, and what format you want.

With conversion/transcoding problems, it's almost always a decoding ("from") problem, rather than than an encoding ("to") problem. If a program claims it can make an MPEG-4 file, it probably can... Depending what it's making it from.

For example, Video Studio can edit an AVI/DV file and save it as an MPEG-4 file. But when it comes to opening/editing/converting highly-compressed files (MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, WMV, etc), it's "hit-and-miss."

P.S.
Apparently, YouTube doesn't want you downloading videos. The YouTube website says this:

Saving Videos: Downloading

No, currently you can't download our videos to your computer. YouTube's video player is designed to be used within your browser as an Internet experience. As an alternative to downloading, you can temporarily save videos to watch later by adding them to your QuickList. If you'd like to save them more permanently, sign in and click "Save to Favorites" under the videos you'd like to keep.

There may be copyright, DMCA, or other legal issues....

And, the Video Download Studio website says:

Although YouTube changes their video files hosting routine and YouTube download programs stop working, we work hard and usually fix such problems quickly and update your program automatically.

So, it would appear that the two companies are in an "arms race".

It's also funny because you can go to http://www.keepvid.com and download You/Tube videos just by pasting the URL link in there.