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How to import YouTube videos to iMovie on Mac (Sno

winniel — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:02:13 +0800

One great thing about sites like YouTube is their ability to accept many different file formats, making it much easier for home users to participate. You can try uploading almost any format — there's a good chance that it will work. YouTube simply converts it to the FLV format. So if you have downloaded the YouTube videos they are mostly .flv files.

People like to edit YouTube videos on iMovie and then share them on line. First you must resolve the problem to play YouTube videos on Mac OS X for view.

There are several free ways to view YouTube videos on Mac OS X.The most convernient way is to use wondershare Free Youtube Downloader for Mac,which is also a super free flv player for mac .Moreover,it has upgraded to a powerful version now,with easy video play enterface and video search torbar like surfing on the youtube .com. With it ,you can collect your favourate and download from youtube.com for free.

Then, how to import YouTube videos to iMovie on Mac OS X?
The YouTube to iMovie converter for Mac can help you play YouTube FLV files on Mac easily and import YouTube videos to iMovie successfully. It is not only a good YouTube to iMovie converter for Mac, but also a video editor for Mac. You can do video trim and video crop etc on.So to import yotube to imovie becomes a piece of cake with the good programme.

And at present, FLV is the file format widely used by some famous websites, such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, and Reuters.com etc on. So the YouTube to iMovie converter for Mac can also import Google videos, Yahoo videos MySpace videos, Facebook videos and other online videos to iMovie smoothly after a conversion.

Step 1, Download YouTube to iMovie converter for Mac and install on the Mac OS X (including Snow Leopard).

Step 2, Select MOV, MP4, or MPG (MPEG-2) as the output formats, which are compatible with iMovie. And you also need to select the destination file folder. By the way, you can also change the setting like contrast, brightness, and saturations for video files before starting conversion.

Step 3, Click “start” and the YouTube FLV to iMovie converter for Mac will finish the conversion process within a short time.

Additionally, if you are eager to share your FLV videos on line, just upload FLV directly to YouTube or upload them after
editing videos on YouTube to iMovie converter for Mac.

Though iMovie is a powerful video editing tool, there are problems you may encounter or you are learner of iMovie, see this guide how to make a home movie from YouTube videos files with iMovie.
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converter for flv to mp4 mac or mp4 to flv mac

winniel — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:56:39 +0800

1. What's FLV

Flash Video (FLV) is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.

2. How to play FLV on Mac
An FLV player is a type of media player that is used for playing flash video from PC as well as from Internet websites. An FLV player can be used standalone, without the need of the Adobe Flash authoring or developmental tools.
The following players support FLV files in their default installations:
Mplayer OS X
VLC Media player
Free FLV Player for Mac

3. How to convert flv to mp4 on mac
This tutorial is show you how to convert .flv to .mp4 on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Free download and install FLV to MP4 Converter for Mac.
After installing and running the mac flv to mov converter, you will see the main interface as below.

Step 2: Add FLV video files to convert to mp4
Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard drive and select FLV video files you want to convert. This FLV to mp4 video converter for Mac supports drag-drop and batch conversion, so you can import and convert several flv files to mp4 at a time.

Step 3: Select output format as MP4
Use the "format" on the bottom of the window to control the output format. Click on the toggle to the right of the "Format" label to get format drop-down menu. Select "MPEG-4 Movie" as the output format.

Step 4: Start to convert FLV to MP4 on Mac.
Click "Start" to convert flv to mp4 video for Mac, just forget it and have a cup of coffee.

With Wondershare mac flv to mp4 converter enhanced editing functions, you also can trim, crop, add effect on your video, merge several flv video clips into one file, and extract audio and image from FLV on Mac. Here is a detailed guide about editing FLV video on Mac.

4. What’s the difference between FLV and SWF
FLV stands for “Flash Video”. It is a format designed for web video playback that offers high rates of compression and produces high quality video. FLV is becoming more and more popular on the web since it can easily be embedded in a webpage and is supported by the main operating systems via the Adobe Flash Player and web-browser plug in. At present, FLV is the file format widely used by some famous websites, such as YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, etc.

More specifically, SWF is a proprietary file format for multimedia and especially for vector graphics. It contains animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function in order to be small enough for publication on the Web. Therefore, SWF is currently the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web which is very popular and be commonly used. What's more, SWF is sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials.

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How to Put DVD Movie and Audio on iPhone on Mac OS

winniel — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:39:35 +0800

iPhone can not support all video and audio formats.
The video formats it supports are: .M4V, .MP4 and .MOV
The audio formats it supports are: AAC, MP3, WAV and AIFF

So If you want to put your own videos on iPhone and extract audio from videos to iPhone, you need to convert video to the formats that compatible with iPhone. This is a tutorial on how to convert video to iPhone video and iPhone audio on Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard).

Blow away any previous tools and software you might have installed that you don't need and you think might conflict with getting a good DVD rip. Also blow away any old media files you don't need. This process is fairly heavy on resources so generally the more room you have and the less things that can get in the way, the better.

Software you need:

1. iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac (Only $39.00 - Has a Free Trial!)

iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac is a powerful DVD to iPhone Mac software that can rip DVDs to iPhone format with super high quality. It can rip DVD to MP4 format that compatible with iPhone on Mac. It can also extract audio from DVD and then convert to iPhone audio format files such as AAC, MP3.

2. iTunes (free download)
Step 1, Install and Run DVD Ripper for Mac

You can download it for free from:
Intel Version
Power PC Version

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want it).

Step 2, Load DVD movies

Insert your DVD movie into your DVD drive .Click the Load DVD button (Or click the Load IFO button) to load your DVD.

Step 3, Convert DVD to iPhone on Mac OS X
If you want to rip DVD to iPhone format, you need to select the output format as iPhone video MPEG-4 (*MP4).

If you want to extract audio from DVD to iPhone, you need to select the output format as AAC or MP3.

You can learn more: How to edit, crop, trim DVD clips and capture pictures on Mac OS X ?

Step 4, Transfer converted DVD to iPhone on Mac
Connect your iPhone and start iTunes. Find the file you made above and drag it onto your iPhone.

transfer video to iPhone on Mac
Open the file in iTunes. Go to video source on top left menu just beneath library.

It won't be on your iPhone until you sync - make sure you have the movies box checked in your iPhone preferences.

That's it. Enjoy!