How to Convert AVI to FLV on Mac/Windows

If you obtain a video from YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, it will be likely a Flash video with the file extension of *.flv. With the wide availability of Adobe Flash Player in most common web browsers, Flash video has been the most popular video format for online delivery. Anyway, if you got problems in uploading videos in AVI, for example, you can convert AVI video to FLV video for making the upload job unimpeded.

This article concentrates on AVI format to FLV format conversion for assisting you to do the job as easily as possible. It uses AVI to FLV Video Converter for Windows and AVI to FLV video converter for Mac (Snow Leopard,  Lion included) to do so. Both of the converters can finish the conversion task within a few steps. Free download, install it on your PC and let's see how simple it makes an AVI to flash video conversion in Windows.

Step 1. Add files to the AVI to FLV converter

Install and launch it on your PC. Click "Add Files" button and import the files you want to convert. With the function of batch conversion, you are allowed to import more than one file for converting. And this AVI video to FLV video converter is professional for converting videos in any format so that you can convert AVI files to FLV files as well as FLV to AVI with the help of Video Converter.

Step 2. Edit videos (Optional)

This converter provides us powerful video editing functions. You can crop, clip, add watermarks and subtitles to videos, as well as merge and split video as you need.

Step 3. Set the output format

Click the "Advanced" button and you will see many different output formats. You can select FLV (.flv) or AVI (.avi) as you like, and there are also other popular formats for your choice. If you convert FLV to AVI for playback on BlackBerry or convert AVI format to FLV format for upload to YouTube or Facebook for sharing, you can directly choose the optimized presets for the device and sites offered.  

Step 4. Convert AVI video to FLV video

Click "Start" when everything is set, and the AVI to FLV conversion will be completed automatically. Converted files can be founded by clicking "Find Target".

Tips on AVI to FLV Converter:
You can define the output file location of the AVI format to FLV formatVideo Converter by clicking Tools>Preferences.