Enjoy Flash Video FLV from YouTube and Google Video on Portable Devices

FLV to MP4 movie

This tutorial is telling you the way to convert videos downloaded from YouTube and Google Video, etc, and enjoy them on your mobile devices.

First of all, we must make it clear that the YouTube videos and Google videos are Flash Video file, or FLV file format.

What is FLV?

FLV, or Flash Live Video file, is a preferred file format that is designed for web playback, offering high rates of compression to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player.

FLV content cannot be played back directly. It must be embedded in (or linked from) an SWF file. You create (or download) a “container” SWF file from which to play the FLV file. The most common approach is to use an SWF file to function as a media player with screen and playback controls. Notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.

What is MP4?

A video compression standard planned for late 1998. MPEG-4 extends the earlier MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 algorithms with synthesis of speech and video, fractal compression, computer visualisation and artificial intelligence-based image processing techniques.

MPEG.ORG is an excellent source for additional information on MPEG format and usage.

 

Launch FLV to Video Converter Pro 2
In order to convert from FLV (Flash Video) to RM (RealMedia) video with FLV to Video Converter, you must have Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2 installed.

Once Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2 is installed, launch the converter program.

Add File
Click on the “Add” button on the tool bar to import your target FLV files into the program. You can input as many FLV files as you like. After imported, you can preview the FLV.

 

Clip the Video and Add Watermark

Click Edit, enter editor window, select a specific file and you can crop the video to determine what area of the video image is to be shown. You can also trim the length of the video, as is marked in the picture below.

 

This program also supports adding image and text watermarks to the video. This step is particularly important to instructors or conference presenters if they want to display their logo in the generated video.

 

Check “Add image/video watermark”. And then you can choose your logo. By checkting “Enable”, then click ““, you can set the location of the watermark.  To add text watermark, you can click “Add text watermark”, then check “Enable”  to write text in the blank pane. You can set the font of the text by clicking “” button. To adjust effect of the video, you can click Effect, then adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation of the video, also you could select special effect from the down list of “Effect”.

Change the Output Settings

You can change the output path by clicking the folder icon right behind “Output” box.

Select “MP4″ in the “Format”, and then you can change the video and audio settings with “Settings” tab. If it is not in need, just keep it by default.
 

Start Conversion
After all the settings, click “Convert” and “Start” to convert the files on the file list to the output folder.

 

Transfer the Converted Movies to Your Portable devices and enjoy it any time you like!