recommendations for converting video to flash

[bazookaman]

I need to convert some movies. Yes, I have the Adobe Media Encoder or whatever it is. And yes, it sucks ass. It has choked on every movie I've fed into it. So i was wondering if there is a free app that will do that for me. Something without the Adobe name on it.

[mikebw]

What is your source video format? I use Adobe Media Encoder all the time to convert to FLV and F4V, never had any issues with it.

You can use Quicktime / Final Cut Pro batch export if you have the Quicktime FLV Export components installed.

[bazookaman]

One file was an mpg which failed. I then exported it as an mp4 from Quicktime and that failed as well. Actually it didn't really "fail" so much as it just didn't finish. It got to the end of the encode and just sat there....forever....and never finished. The other was an mpg that just kept crashing the encoder.

[clay]

Okay, you're on the right track, but need to change things up a bit. You're correct in that you need to convert your original mpg's to something else in order to convert to flash. But, rather than converting to another highly-compressed format (like mp4 or h264), try converting to something less compressed, like DV or Animation or 8-bit uncompressed (it all depends on the quality/size/dimensions of your source videos). Then put that resulting file through Media Encoder.

Media Encoder is going to give you as good of results as any encoder, and probably better than any free alternative, which would still give you trouble if you started with an mpg.

If you need a tool to convert your mpg, try the free mpeg streamclip. I don't think that will directly convert to flv, but you should check.

[bazookaman]

Ok. Will try converting to uncompressed format tonight and see how that works.

edit: So I actually had the files on an external here at work so I converted the one mpg to a dv stream in Quicktime, then ran it through the encoder and it worked. However, the other file I have is an mp4. It's an mp4 b/c I had to encode a VIDEO TS folder with handbrake first. What is weird about it, is that Quicktime fails to open it so I cannot even convert it to a dv stream.

Stupid video crap!

[bazookaman]

Alright. So I FINALLY got the DVD file converted to something quicktime would open. Then saved as a DV. Then encoded. Yeesh. What PITA.

Thanks for the assistance. This was one of the last hurdles for a large project's looming deadline.

[mikebw]

Glad you worked it out. Generally with video you avoid going to the higher compression codecs like flv or mp4 unless that is the final delivery format because editing those formats is not desirable, plus they don't look as good. I use ProRes422 for pretty much everything at work until we get to the final output, which right now is either FLV or F4V.

[bazookaman]

Yeah. The final output is going to be displayed in a Flash presentation. So having it in flash format is a necessity.

[passwordreset]

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[Anonymous User]

You can have a try of freeware which is named Free Video to Flash converter that launched by dvdvideosoft.
If the software is not satisfactory as you thought, please have try of Kvisoft Video to Flash converter.