Nowadays, the majority of videos online are stored in FLV format. The main reason behind this is that they consume very little space, and are thus incredibly quick to load through the various video sharing websites such as YouTube. Problems only arise when you start to download them.
Yes, there are plenty of players out there which will allow you to watch FLV files. To be honest though, many of them are pretty clunky and don't function as well as they can. FLV are not supported by Mac’s program as well, like iMovie and Final Cut Pro. In addition to this, you won’t be able to watch your FLV files on Apple products, like iPhone, iPad, iPod and so forth. Don't worry though, there is a solution. You can convert FLV to MOV - the Apple Devices playable format. And that is something I want to cover with you on this particular page. Let's take a little look at how you can go about converting FLV to MOV with ease.
When talking about converting FLV format, video converter that featured by fast conversion speed and high output quality is a necessary. Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate is such a program. With it, you can convert FLV to common MOV format as well as HD MOV and optimized MOV for iPhone, iPad, iPod and more. Apart from that, AVI, WMV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, etc. are also in the supported output list. This FLV to MOV converter is also very easy to handle. Before you can convert your files, you need to download Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate to help you through the process.
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Steps to convert FLV videos to MOV format
The tutorial below is taking the Windows version of FLV converter as an example to show you how to convert FLV video files to MOV format step by step. For Mac users, just try Mac FLV to MOV converter, which is well compatible with Mac OS X (Mountain Lion and Mavericks).
1 Import FLV videos to the converter
The first thing that you need to do is get your video conversion program up and running. Installation should be rather simple. Once the program is running, click the Add Files button to select the FLV files that you wish to convert. These will then load up and give you a preview of the video. To merge together multiple files, just tick "Merge all videos into one file".
2Edit videos as you wish
The next step of the conversion process is to edit the files as you like. This is a completely optional step, but if you wish to add information such as watermarks or subtitles then this is the section that you need to pay the most attention to. You will also be able to do other things such as cropping, rotating and more.
3 Designate MOV as the output format
The next stage is to choose the output type that you want your file to be. To do this click Output Format > Format > Video and choose MOV. It is also worth taking this time to browse through the multitude of op-tions that you have at your disposal. After all, you never know when you will want to do something different from converting FLV to MOV and create files for another device, for example if you want them to display on the iPhone correctly.
After this you will be asked to confirm a number of other settings. Once you are happy with the results you can start the conversion process by clicking the Convert button, which won't take too long. You can then load the converted MOV file into your chosen device and you are ready to enjoy them now.
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