When surfing the Internet, you maybe encounter funny videos from time to time on the video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Hulu, Music, MySpace, Metacafe, Google Video,etc. And you will find that the videos posted on these public sites are almost in the FLV (Flash Video) format. When download videos from these sites, you probably get FLV video files.
There are more and more people who are in need to convert FLV to DVD to watch movies on a DVD player or on TV.However, since the FLV is a proprietary file format for publishing and sharing videos online due to its high rates of compression and facilitating online delivery, the video quality is usually not quite good. Therefore, when making DVD from FLV files, do whatever you can to maintain or improve the video quality. Here we recommend Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate as the all-in-one Flash video to DVD solution. With it, you can not only convert FLV to any format with customiable options for play with media play or DVD player, but also take FLV on TV by burning to DVD disc with high quality (use "High Video Quality" option in the final step).
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Below are the example steps to burn Flash videos to DVD in Windows. When convert FLV files to DVD on Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included), the steps are similar (add, edit, burn), but make sure you get the Mac version of .flv video burner.
Step 1. Load FLV for DVD project
When launch this FLV to DVD converter, locate the "File" button to import FLV video files and organize DVD contents. After FLV video files are added, simply drag and drop to adjust the video order. Video editing is also available. Right click to access tools including trim, rotate, crop, effect, watermark, subtitle, etc.
Before converting FLV videos to DVD, it's optional to edit Flash video. If you want, choose "Video Edit" to open the video editing window. A wide range of editing tools are built in: crop, rotate, watermark, effects and so on.
Step 2. Choose DVD Format & Author FLV DVD
Next, click the "Profile" option at the bottom and choose "DVD" from the popup list. You'll see the "Burn" button. Click it and the DVD burning wizard will open. The first step is to customize a menu for FLV DVD disc. There are different styles of built-in templates for your choice. After select a menu template, you can change background music and background image to author a personalized DVD menu, on which all titlesets will appear as a thumbnail. Note that you can also convert FLV to VOB (the original DVD format), or any popular format in the profile list.
Step 3. Preview and burn FLV to DVD
You can directly preview your FLV DVD disc before going to the next step, as if you are watching FLV on TV. Simply click buttons or thumbnails to preview in real-time mode. If anything needs to be changed, go back and change it. When you are satisfied with FLV DVD, go to next step to make settings such as the disc label, output target, TV standard, aspect ratio and DVD drive. Lastly, click "Burn", then the program will automatically convert FLV to DVD. Ensure that you have selected the right TV standard: "NTSC" is used in USA, Canada and Japan, while "PAL" used in Europe and Asia. Make sure to choose "High Video Quality" as long as the size hasn't exceed the limit. If necessary, also convert Flash video to DVD folder or ISO image format and save to computer.
When FLV DVD disc writing complete, the FLV DVD disc will eject automatically so that you can directly insert into normal DVD player to play FLV videos on TV. Cool? You can do it: easy steps to convert Flash to DVD.
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Flash Video Editing on Mac
The Mac FLV to DVD Converter is called Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. To convert Flash to DVD on Mac, the steps are similar to Windows version of FLV video burner. To edit added FLV videos, highlight a video and click "Edit" button to bring up editing dialog, where you can crop, rotate, trim unwanted sections, add watermark, set special effects, etc.
FLV to DVD Knowledge
1. What's FLV? FLV, short for Flash Video, is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10. FLV content may be embedded within SWF files. In such cases, you need SWFRIP (Free) to decode FLV and then use DVD Creator to burn FLV to DVD. Notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.
2. How to play FLV? This article shows the easiest way to play FLV on TV. Apart from this, you could also play FLV on PC using VLC Media Player (Mac & Windows) or Windows Media Player after converted FLV to WMV/AVI, on web using web video player like JW Player (Free). How to make FLV playable on QuickTime? You need to convert FLV to MOV to play FLV with QuickTime.
3. What's the difference between SWF and FLV? SWF is an acronym of Shockwave Flash, which is a proprietary format for multimedia and especially for vector graphics. It can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function in order to be small enough for publication on the Web. The FLV is a video format, while SWF is more likely a compiled Flash program file. You can embed a FLV video into SWF for easy web publish. Both of them can be created by Adobe Flash.
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