Q: What does this guide tell us?
A: Today, people can always get some interesting video clips from YouTube, which displays a wide variety of user-generated video/movie clips, TV clips, and music videos. Usually, these video clips you download from YouTube are in FLV formats. If you want to watch them on your portable players or cell phones, you need to convert the FLV video clips to the related supported formats first. The easiest way is to use a conversion tool. The tool we use is Tipard FLV Converter. Now let’s have a look at on how to convert FLV to WMV and other popular video formats support by PMPs.
Q: What’s FLV?
A: FLV - FLV files (Flash Video Files) are a binary file format that delivers "bitmapped" video, limited to one video and one audio stream per file, over the Internet to the Macromedia Flash Player version 7. FLV format files are widely used on YouTube, Yahoo video, Facebook video etc
Let’s come to this guide now – convert YouTube files to popular video formats.
Step 1: Download and install Tipard FLV Converter.
Step 2: Add file to Tipard FLV Converter interface. There are three ways to put your files on it.
Method One: Click "Add File", it would pop up one window, and select you want to convert file on this window.
Method Two: At the top of the drop menu, click "File", then select "Add File" to import your .FLV files.
Method Three: Drag the file to Tipard FLV Converter interface directly.
Step 3: Choose profile
Tipard FLV Converter is capable of converting most standard videos files including AVI, WMV, MOV, RM, RMVB, DAT, FLV, ASF, MPG and MPEG and so on. Besides, it fully supports converting FLV, SWF to High Definition TS, MOV, H.264 format. Select proper output format according to your need.
Note:
Before you start the conversion, you can define the video and audio settings.
Click the "Settings" button to open the Settings window.
In the Video Settings, you can select Encoder, Frame Rate, Resolution and Video Bitrate to convert your movie. Moreover, you can also directly input your own resolution as the form of "XXX*XXX";
In the Audio Settings, you can select Encoder, Channels, Bitrate and Sample Rate to convert your movie.
You also can save all the output settings as your preference, which is saved in the user-defined column automatically.
Tips:
Tip 1: Edit video effect
Click "Effect" button on the top of the interface to pop up the video edit effect window.
Brightness: Drag and click the Brightness adjustment bar to set the brightness of the video.
Contrast: Drag and click the Contrast adjustment bar to set the contrast of the video.
Saturation: Drag and click the Saturation adjustment bar to set the saturation of the video.
Deinterlacing: when you convert the interlaced video formats such as 720i,1080i, for you to obtain better output videos, you can set the Deinterlacing function to avoid the mosaic.
Tip 2: Trim video
Click "Trim" button on the top of the interface to pop up the video edit trim window.
Tipard FLV Converter provides you three methods to trim your video length.
Method 1: Enter the start time in the Start Time box and click OK, then enter the end time in the Set End Time box and click OK.
Method 2: Drag the scissors bars under the preview window when you want to trim, then the time will be shown in the Start Time box and End Time box for your reference.
Method 3: Click "Trim From" button when you want to begin your trimming. Click "Trim To" button where you want to stop your trimming.
After you set trim time, the length of the captured clip will be shown in the Select Length box for your reference.
Tip 3: Crop video
Click "Crop" button on the top of the interface to pop up the video edit crop window.
Tipard FLV Converter allows you to remove the black edges around your movie video and customize the size of video play region.
There are three methods available to crop your video:
Method 1: Crop by selecting a crop mode
Method 2: Crop by adjusting the crop frame
Method 3: Crop by setting the crop values
There are four crop values on the lower right part of the crop window: Top, Bottom, Left and Right. You can set each value to crop your movie video, and the crop frame will move accordingly.
You can also set the output aspect ratio from the Zoom Mode according to your need. There are four choices available: Keep Original, Full Screen, 16:9 and 4:3.
Tip 4: Snapshot:
Click "Snapshot" button on the right bottom of the preview video window and the current picture in the Preview window will be captured and saved.
Click "Folder" button to open the folder where the captured images are saved. As default the captured image will be saved at users' My Documents\Tipard Studio\Snapshot.
Click "Preference" menu, you can reset the snapshot folder and the type of your captured image: JPEG, GIF or BMP formats.
Tip 5: Preferences
Click "Preferences" menu to adjust the settings related to conversion
It includes the output folder, snapshot folder, image type, conversion done, CPU usage.
Step 4: Convert
After all the steps above are done, click the right button on the interface to start to convert video or music to FLV format.
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