How To Convert Video to FLV Format
December 31, 2011Step 1. Load the video
Launch Video Encoder for Adobe Flash. Click “Select…” and choose a video file that you want to convert.
Step 2. Edit the video
Click “Crop & Trim”, if you want to edit the source video. You can crop the video, if you want to remove blackbars, or just want a part of the picture. You can trim the video, if you just want to convert a certain duration of video.
Step 3. Configure the conversion settings
Select “User-defined” to enable yourself to customize the audio and video settings. And specify the audio setting and video settings properly. You can check the help file to find more detailed guidance.
Step 4. Specify output settings
Specify an output folder to save the created FLV and SWF files. Check both “Generate FLV” and “Generate SWF “.
If you want to create a SWF player which can play different FLV files dynamically, you should choose “Get the FLV path from a URL variable and play progressively”. Then you need to specify a URL variable name (in the right blank), then the created SWF player can get the FLV path from HTML code using this variable name.
Otherwise, you can simply choose “Play the created external FLV file progressively”.
Step 5. Choose skin for Flash video player
Select a color scheme and style you like. Choose “Classic (Black, Full)” for example. “Full” control panel provides all controls including Play, Pause, Fast forward/backward, Volume control, Mute, Elapsed Time and Duration.
Step 6. Start conversion
Click “Next” to start conversion. It will take a few minutes.
After the conversion finishes, open the output folder, then you can see the created “.flv” and “.swf” files. You can also use free software FLV Player to play the .flv video directly to see if its quality is good enough. If not, you need to convert the video again, and try some different conversion settings.