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Video to Flash converter for mac, a professional flash FLV and SWF maker, can convert almost all video formats to Flash, FLV, SWF on mac. The supported video formats include MOV(QuickTime), M4V, 3GP, MP4, AVI, WMV, RM, RMVB, MKV, VOB, MPG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, FLV, HD video, AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, TS, T2S, TP, TRP, DV, etc. The special feature lies in that it can automatically embed the videos in a HTML webpage with flash player.
Like the common video to flash mac converter, it allows mac users to crop, clip, merge the flash video, add artistic effect, like Old Film, Gray, Emboss and take audio and video settings according to your wish. However, the video to Flash(FLV/SWF) converter mac differs in that it has the ability to clip a video as many time as you want, add many videos into a playlist, offer you customize flash player with skinning controller.
In additional, video to Flash mac converter enables you to add image or text into video as watermark so as to show company’s logo or other necessary attributes and embed clickable URL in flash video. With mac video to FLV/SWF converter, you don’t need to worry how to embed your video to website and blog and upload your favorite movies to youtube.com video sharing website, no matter whether you master programming or actionscript. It’s easy-to-use and suitable for everyone.
Key Features
Convert video to flash FLV, SWF and HTLM page
Support almost all video formats, including MOV(QuickTime), M4V, 3GP, MP4, AVI, WMV, RM, RMVB, MKV, VOB, MPG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, FLV, HD video, AVCHD, MTS, M2TS, TS, T2S, TP, TRP, DV, etc.
Export Flash video in FLV, SWF video formats with high quality, normal quality or low quality and generate a HTML page embedded a compelling flash video player with skinning control bar.
The exported flash video can be easily added to your website and blog and uploaded to video sharing website.
Edit Flash video with versatile editing features
Define the cropping values to remove the unwanted area like black slides and zoom the scenes which are too far away through set its aspect ratio: original, full, 16:9, 4:3.
Change video Brightness, Contrast and Saturation or add Old film, Emboss, Gray effect to flash video.
Get your desired segment from the source videos by setting the start and end time, specially you can clip a video as many times as you need.
Stick several videos into a single one and add several separate video files into a scrollable playlist.
Customize flash video as easy as a piece of cake
Adjust Audio Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder, Bit Rate and Video width, Height, Encoder, Bitrate, Bit Rate, Frame Rate as your requirement.
Provides you with customize flash players with control bar and compelling skin, special effect and preloader template to personalize your flash video.
Making software training videos is quite popular in software industry. The software developers find it simple and impressive to introduce their software to the customers entirely, telling people how to use it from basic points to intensive features. In another hand, software training videos are also another way of promoting software for the business of software vendors. You can upload it to online video sites like YouTube or submit them to software review sites in order to get more potential users.
For people who want to find some programs which can help them solve certain problems, they can find a step-by-step tutorial videos to learn how to master them. It’s much easier and clearer to understand and follow than to read help document in text. Software training videos provide a very helpful opportunity to link up software end users and developers. It’s a win-win solution to both sides.
However, don’t consider that building software training video is just a simple presentation recording process. There’re many things in detail you have to pay attention to. In this article, we note down some of the most important items for you to make better training videos, no matter software providers or end users you are.
What you need
- Experience of using software
- Screen recorder and webcam (the latter is optional)
- Microphone
- Outline of training video
The four steps of building software training video
Step 1 Check all things in order
Once you decide to record presentation for software, write down all points you want to show to your audience in your training video on paper in advance. Then choose one screen recording software which allows you to record what you can see on your computer screen and save it as a video file. Here are many choices depending on what kind of software you introduce and what kind of training video you want make.
- Camstudio: an open source freeware.
- DemoCreator: simple and easy app with video editing features, shareware $99.
- Camtasia: well-known for its professional and stunning visual video features, shareware $299.
Microphone is also essential since majority of screen recorders allow you to record narration during the video recording, indicating more information can be shared in video, so prepare a good microphone at $15 is really worthy.
Step 2 Start software presentations
In this part the major thing is to demonstrate to your audience your software and how to use it, simply regarding it as a process of presentation and explanation. You can quickly go through it once you are well-prepared on your outline, but there are still something you should pay attention to.
- Describe in order: arrange your presentation in order if the software is moderate enough to tell everything one by one. Another way is to make a series of training videos which aim at one specific feature in each video.
- Emphasize the keypoint: don’t attempt to put all things in your training video, that can only make your audience confused since they don’t know what’s the key feature you want to show to them. Take advantages of some video recording effect like zoom-n-pan, highlight and narration to remind people which part should be given specific focus to.
- Keep your mouse calm: beware of moving your mouse on and on while giving presentation. That’s a bad habit most video authors pay little attention to. If you are not doing any click actions, leave your hands off your mouse and remove all unnecessary movements.
- Control the length of video: the concentrated duration of your audience is limited so you should handle your video time. Generally speaking, 5 minutes or less is properly accepted by most of video watchers.
Step 3 Enhance the video in post production
You can ignore this part if you’re a user of Camstudio since most of freeware don’t offer video editing features like adding callout, zoom-n-pan, highlight, animation and so on. Your video can be more impressive and interactive by inserting these special effects.
- Callout: a dialog box which allows you to write text in it. It’s mainly used for making title or giving tips to certain operation and can be placed anytime and anywhere in your video.
- Zoom-n-pan: it presents a magnifier effect what allows you to zoom and pan in a specific area showing only the relevant parts of your scene in specific details. And that’s one of the most frequently used features to focus your audience’s attention on important screen movements or actions.
- Highlight: emphasize a specific area of your screen by adding a frame or shade.
- Insert objects: with this feature you can insert picture, Flash movie, logo and other objects to decorate your training video and realize multiple ways of explanation.
- Audio editor: some screen recording software like DemoCreator offers a solo audio editor so you can edit or remake your narration for software training video. What’s more, inserting WAV or MP3 file as back ground music is also available.
Step 4 Publish your training video
The last step is to save your software presentation as video file. Screen recording software can generate video in different formats but the most common ones are AVI and WMV. Some programs have already supported up-to 7 popular video formats including FLV, MP4, MPEG, 3GP and some other documentation standards for education and learning.
Another thing is that you should choose the most suitable video codec for your video or the video quality can be terrible and the video file can be huge. Generally, many screen recording software set Microsoft video 1 as the default video codec, you can try different codec to find out the best video performance for your software presentation.
Summary
That’s the main process of making video presentation for software. It helps your audience to get familiar with your software and prepare to master it without reading boring book or attending expensive training courses. The training video is also easy to share online and digs out more users to popularize your program. Now get ready to building your software training video with screen recorders, it can be pleasant and fun.
Video morphing software enable user to select nickvoices that provides combinations of pitch, timbre and equalization settings. Download Video morphing program online free demo to create stunning covers for CDs or DVDs. Morph videos recording tool is featured with parody maker that allows user to record sound clips and import voice. Video effect generator software allows user to apply different visual effects like brightness, contrast, emboss, erode, ghosting and pulsar. Audio effect producer utility allows user to create CDs or DVDs covers by editing layouts and assignment and adjustment of layout background image or color. Download Video morphing tool online to mix source audio tracks.
Video morphing software enable user to select nickvoices that provides combinations of pitch, timbre and equalization settings. Download Video morphing program online free demo to create stunning covers for CDs or DVDs. Morph videos recording tool is featured with parody maker that allows user to record sound clips and import voice. Video effect generator software allows user to apply different visual effects like brightness, contrast, emboss, erode, ghosting and pulsar. Audio effect producer utility allows user to create CDs or DVDs covers by editing layouts and assignment and adjustment of layout background image or color. Download Video morphing tool online to mix source audio tracks.
Video morphing software enable user to select nickvoices that provides combinations of pitch, timbre and equalization settings. Download Video morphing program online free demo to create stunning covers for CDs or DVDs. Morph videos recording tool is featured with parody maker that allows user to record sound clips and import voice. Video effect generator software allows user to apply different visual effects like brightness, contrast, emboss, erode, ghosting and pulsar. Audio effect producer utility allows user to create CDs or DVDs covers by editing layouts and assignment and adjustment of layout background image or color. Download Video morphing tool online to mix source audio tracks.
With the multimedia capabilities of the Palm Pre (It can play MP4 and H.264 video), there is no doubt that we will want to convert our DVD’s or video for use on the Palm Pre. This tutorial will guide you through the entire process using the DVD to Palm Converter Pro. For more feature about it, you can vistit here. In the tutorial, we took the copy of Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” and coverted the DVD for use on the Palm Pre. The processing time is dependant upon your computer’s processor and the legnth of your DVD. “A Bug’s Life” is 1 hour and 34 minutes. On my computer, the entire process took roughly 30 minutes from start to finish. Since the Palm Pre supports iTunes, we were able add the converted video to iTunes and then sync with the Pre. And this guide work for all series of Palm including Palm Pre, Palm Centro, Palm Treo, etc. Now, let’s start the guide.
Step1. Download and install DVD Converter Pro, here is the directly download link, the file size is about 9MB. it’s an all-in-one converter that can rip protected DVD movie and convert video to MP4 video for Palm.
Step2: Load your DVD or videos into DVD Converter Pro. Here we can load three kinds of DVD’s: 1. Real DVD, Insert your DVD onto your computer, click ‘Load DVD’ to import it. 2. DVD ISO image, you can amount your ISO files in the daemon tools and then click ‘Load ISO file’ to import it. No other DVD Converter can convert ISO file except this one. 3. A DVD folder, sometimes you may store the DVD folder in your hard drive, it appears like ‘Video_TS’ ‘Audio_TS’ folders. You can load it by clicking the ‘load DVD folders’. 4. For regular video, you can drag and drop it into the software directly.
Step3: Select Profile, Subtitle, Audio, output directory setting After you load DVD or video into the software, click the Profile drop-down list to select ‘Palm Pre Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)‘ as output format.
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting ‘No Subtitle’. Selecting Audio is the same. For more advanced settings, you can open the setting panel by clicking ‘Settings’.
Step4: After all things done, click the ‘Start’ to begin the conversion. When the conversion is completed, click ‘find target’ to located the converted DVD or video file on your computer.
Step 5: If you use iTunes, simply drag the resulting file into iTunes. Select the ‘Movies’ tab and select ‘Sync movies’. I also selected the option to only bring my preferred movies and then checked BUGSLIFE. When the sync completes, eject the Palm Pre from your computer.
Step 6: Select the Application Launcher and open up the Videos application. Select your movie and it will start playing immediately. You’ve now successfully converted your DVD movie and video for use on the Palm Pre. Enjoy your movies on your Palm Pre!
Screen recording has become one of the most popular ways to create tutorial, demonstrate presentation and produce video. The screen recording video technology, after years of development, already shows the importance in wide industry field. There’re two dominant file formats for video publishing: AVI and SWF.
The screen recording videos are widely used in software training, system demonstration and Website service presentation. Because the high quality AVI file provides, it’s easy to share on the internet, burn to video CD and play with most players. SWF file plays an important role in the area of e-learning education and online communities. Teachers make vocal lecture notes and giving distance learning through internet with screen recording video. The clear video quality yet highly compressed file size make it easy to upload to the internet and spread rapidly. Furthermore, its interactive feature makes people think and learn by simulation. It’s the unique characteristic SWF file has.
However, people are not satisfied with only these two file formats. There’re still big gaps the potential users who ask screen recording software to fill up. They hope that screen video could be used in many more aspects to meet their needs and want to generate their screen recording videos in more file formats.
Streaming Online video
No doubt the online streaming video is one of the greatest inventions of the 21 century, and YouTube is the bellwether of the industry. Everyday there will be above one billion clicks on the online videos at YouTube.com. It is, as it were, the most effective manner to make you popular and bring millions of traffics from all over the world.
In that case, as a screen recording video maker, a good video might bring you an unexpected surprise. However, the proper video format and resolution are also the key-items to success. Not only does good screen recording software require great output, but it also demands that the perfect video files matches with YouTube. So the MP4 files with the ratios of 16:9 widescreen or 4:3 can be welcomed by the video authors. They neither need to adjust the video for proper size in order to get the best video output nor worry about the long waiting time while uploading a huge video file, compared with AVI file.
Mobile phone
Perhaps this is the second large demanding group of electronic product except for computer. Nowadays, it’s hard to define a high-tech mobile phone as a simpl communication tool. People would like to regard their handhold electronic gadgets as micro PCs and hands-on video is boosting fast be to a new mainstream as one part of mobile phones.
How to have your screen recording video followed you at all times and places? Since videos on mobile phone require moderate video quality and smaller file size, the new file format like 3GP become popular among youngsters. 3GP is a simplified compressed format of MP4, indicating the smaller storage spaces and lower requirement of data transfer. Supposing thousands of people can watch your screen recording videos with their mobile at bus station, supermarket, seaside, the park or even on the way home. How extensive impact it can reach.
Portable Media Player (PMP)
Accompany by the hot sale of portable media players like iPod and Sony Playstation Portable (PSP), the new concept of enjoying HD portable videos in MOV/MP4/MPEG is on its way to provoke another purchasing storm. The huge HD videos in Gigabyte are accepted by more and more commercial business consumers.
It might be the best opportunity for software developers and art designers to seize the customers in the PMP filed. They can create a serial of screen recording videos as tutorials and demos for the PMP owners, especially when their potential customers meet some specific problems which need detailed explanations in high quality video. It often take place on design software contain so many objects in a small room, as well as some complex hardware devices such as wiring on PCB board.
Summary
Since there will be more and more new file formats for people to create their screen recording videos. Many software providers have set to work on it. The two screen recording software provide videos in the most numbers of file formats are Camtasia (SWF, FLV, AVI, WMV, GIF, RM, MOV, MP3, iPod and EXE) and DemoCreator (SWF, FLV, AVI, WMV, MP4, MPEG, MOV, 3GP and EXE). You can choose the proper screen recording software in order to create videos meets your requirement.
Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus has a solid upgrade to version 14, with a slew of new features and extras. You still get a ton of slick effects, transitions, audio tracks and photo video editing options, but version 15 also includes the following upgrades:
* Multi-cam editing: Record and edit two video channels live and at the same time
* Smoother and simpler AVCHD video importing and editing
* Larger library of customizable 2D and 3D title effects
* New DVD and Blu-ray menu templates
* New proDAD Adorage video effects
* Improved color correction interface makes it easier to adjust color values in a snap
* Improved batch processing lets you select entire video folders to convert, instead of one at a time
Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus also has editing and publishing tools for amateurs and a good collection of editing tools for those familiar with more complex editing tasks, such as bluescreen edits, timeline and storyboard layout, multi-track editing and more.
Stand Out Features:
* Easily publishes to YouTube
* Compatible with portable devices like Sony PSPs, iPods and cell phones
* Includes iClone for 3D animation
* Supports up to 99 tracks
* Screen capturing feature for streaming video
Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus by Magix can import nearly all common video, audio and image file types. You can either drag and drop videos into the timeline, or use one of the many importing tools found throughout the program. In terms of video it can import AVI, DV-AVI, MPEG (1,2,4), MXV, MJPEG, Quicktime and HD WMV. It can also capture analog type files such as video from old VHS tapes or TV. If you would like to add an audio file or clip to your video you can import WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, MIDI, Dolby Digital Stereo and Dolby Digital 5.1 file types. It can also support JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA and more image file types and most scanner and digital camera formats.
Overall, Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus is on the right track. They pushed ahead of Sony’s Vegas Movie Studio with this new version, thanks to the improved interface and ever present depth of features. Even so, using this video editing software isn’t as easy on new users, but Movie Edit Pro 15 in fact is one of the most compatible with portable devices and high definition video editing and publishing software.
Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television news coverage. Nowadays, more and more people are learning the world through CNN video. How to download CNN video or record CNN video? That may be a question you just want to figure out. Well, this article will guide you how to download CNN video and record CNN video with Streaming Video Recorder. Streaming Video Recorder is a professional CNN downloader to download CNN video.
Part1: How to download/record CNN video with Streaming Video Recorder?
Step 1: As you usually do, download and install Streaming Video Recorder.
It provides 7 FULL days for trial:
http://www.download-streaming-video.com/streaming-video-recorder/#137
Step 2: Run this CNN downloader after installing. The interface will as follows:
Step3: Visit www.cnn.com and select any of your favorite video and play or watch. By the meantime, this software will automatically detect the video and a pop-up window will ask you to download video or skip. Click Record to download CNN video.
Seconds later, the downloaded CNN video will be in your local disk. Right click to select browse to view the download CSB video.
Part2: How to setting output formats to improve the output Video quality (Advanced Function Optional)?
Setting output formats to improve the output Video quality:
Output Formats: choose the format you want,so you can convert Cnn video to mp4, avi, wmv.
Sample Rate: In developing an audio sound for computers or telecommunication, the sample rate is the number of samples of a sound that are taken per second to represent the event digitally.
Channel: Set the number of output channels. A value of 1 indicates monophonic sound, 2 stereophonic. Some devices may have more than 2 channels, and some high-end devices may not support mono. Returns the number of channels the device was set to.
Bit rate: Bit rate is generally measured as the number of “bits per second” (bps) at which the data in an audio is being delivered. A higher bit rate means that the audio has more information.
In addition, you can convert the downloaded CNN videos to other popular formats, such as MP4, 3GP, WMV, AVI, MOV, MPG, M4V, OGG, APE, VOB, MP3, WMA, etc. Thus you will be able to enjoy them on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc, wherever you are. Download CNN video with Streaming Video Recorder, today!
Practical functions of Streaming Video Recorder:
Batches record streaming videos, up to 20 at one time
With this Streaming Video Recorder, you can download nearly 20 streaming videos synchronously. Launch Streaming Video Recorder, open your favorite web video, as many as you like, and you can record streaming video to your hard disk all together.
Create your own “My Favorites” list with channels collection
Do you often download, capture, record streaming video from online TV channels or your favorite websites? If so, Streaming Video Recorder is a helpful tool for you. Because this Streaming Video Recorder has a module of “My Favorite”, which enables you to add your favorite video websites or online TV channels into your favorite list. With that, you can easily record, download, and capture the streaming videos from that list.
1. What is MP4 video?
MP4 is short for Moving Picture Expert Group-4. First published in 1998, MPEG-4 or MP4 was designed to encompass all the features that were part of earlier releases of MPEG files, and add a few more that would prove helpful with the advancing online technology of the day. So the MP4 video is using MPEG file format as a storage to store the video. MP4 video such as iTunes video can be stored in your PSP, iPod, iPhone, Mobile phone and other hardware or software that supports MP4 files.
2. Why should we burn MP4 video?
MP4 is only one of the video formats, so it doesn’t fit all of the players we use. If you want to play a MP4 video on a big screen by your DVD player, you need to convert mpeg4 to dvd. And people always want to share the things they appreciate with others, if you can create your own DVD which can be kept for a life time, you can freely share it with anybody you want.
3. How to burn MP4 video to DVD?
Aimersoft DVD creator solves this problem by its easy but useful functions. You can create your own DVD with this good tool. Just follow these steps to burn mp4 to dvd:
step1. Download and follow the installation wizard to install Aimersoft DVD Creator (Note, you need a DVD Burner to burn DVD, so make sure your DVD Drive has DVD+RW or DVD-RW symbol).
Here to download: http://www.dvd-creator.org/dvd-creator/
Step2. Run Aimersoft DVD Creator, click “Load Video” button to import the MP4 videos, then click “add to slideshow” button to add them to storyboard. If you want to burn MP4 videos to dual-layer DVD (DVD-9), at the bottom of the interface, select “DVD-R 9.0G”, you can also customize video quality there. And the used disc space is shown on the disc space bar underneath the storyboard.
Step3. If you want to give your DVD more fantastic effects, you can choose the video and click “edit” to make your DVD different from others’. You can crop, select effect, trim, add watermark and plug in subtitle as what are shown on the following picture.
Step4. After editing the videos, you can click “Burn” tab, it will begin to create your own DVD.
Tip: this software can also convert and burn all common media formats.
CBS provide us abundant sources, mainly entertainment. Shows, videos, HD videos, celebrity, food, games, news, sports, shop, and so forth; we could learn all these stuff on CBS. Among all these, CBS video takes a quite part of them. As more and more videos provided, you may wonder how to download some of your favorite.
Here is the best CBS video downloader to download CBS video, download CBS HD video, and download CSB TV show, it named Wondershare Streaming Video Recorder, it supports all kinds of popular streaming protocols, which means you can not only download CBS video and download CBS TV show, you could also download video and TV show from YouTube, Yahoo, Google, NBC, etc. Here we are going to focus on the details on how to download CBS video. Stay close:
How to download/capture/record CBS video?
Step1 As you usually do, download and install Wondershare Streaming Video Recorder.
Go its official site to download it for trial: http://www.download-streaming-video.com/streaming-video-recorder/#137
Step2 Run this CBS downloader after installing. The interface will as follows:
Usually, the sniffer is running by default. But you’d better check it to make sure it’s working, or streaming video recorder cannot detect the Yahoo video automatically.
Step3 Select any of your favorite video and play or watch. By the meantime, this software will automatically detect the video and a pop-up window will ask you to download CBS video or skip. Click Record to download CBS video.
Seconds later, the downloaded CBS video will be in your local disk. Right click to select browse to view the download CSB video.
How to setting output formats to improve the output Video quality (Advanced Function Optional)?
Sample Rate: In developing an audio sound for computers or telecommunication, the sample rate is the number of samples of a sound that are taken per second to represent the event digitally.
Channel: Set the number of output channels. A value of 1 indicates monophonic sound, 2 stereophonic. Some devices may have more than 2 channels, and some high-end devices may not support mono. Returns the number of channels the device was set to.
Bit rate: Bit rate is generally measured as the number of “bits per second” (bps) at which the data in an audio is being delivered. A higher bit rate means that the audio has more information.
Moreover, if you want to watch the downloaded CBS videos in your portable devices, Streaming Video Recorder enable you convert the download CBS video to other kinds of formats, such as MP4, 3GP, WMV, AVI, MOV, MPG, M4V, OGG, APE, VOB, MP3, WMA, etc. You can reach that by right clicking the download file or click Converter from the interface.
Special function of Streaming Video Recorder
Download streaming video, 1:1 video quality
Streaming Video Recorder has a sensitive sniffer to detect any streaming video while you suffering on internet. This sniffer can analyze the real URL of the streaming video during data transferring, and then record streaming video with the real URL. Download, capture, record streaming videos, you will get 1:1 quality of what you watch online.
Batches record streaming videos, up to 20 at one time
With this Streaming Video Recorder, you can download nearly 20 streaming videos synchronously. Launch Streaming Video Recorder, open your favorite web video, as many as you like, and you can record streaming video to your hard disk all together.
Create your own “My Favorites” list with channels collection
Do you often download, capture, record streaming video from online TV channels or your favorite websites? If so, Streaming Video Recorder is a helpful tool for you. Because this Streaming Video Recorder has a module of “My Favorite”, which enables you to add your favorite video websites or online TV channels into your favorite list. With that, you can easily record, download, and capture the streaming videos from that list.
