General Discussion - How to convert FLV to MOV on Mac OS X winniel - Wed Aug 04, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject: How to convert FLV to MOV on Mac OS X
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 mov on mac os x
This tutorial is show you how to convert .flv to .mov on Mac OS X. This FLV to MOV Converter for Mac can convert flv video(including web flv video like YouTube) to MOV video, it also support the conversion on the other video and audio formats including MPEG, MPG, MKV, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MP3, MKA, AIFF, WMA, M4A, AC3, AAC, WAV, OGG, etc on Mac OS X.
Step 1: Free download and install flv to mov converter for mac.
After installing and running the flv to mov mac converter, you will see the main interface as below.
Moreover do not forget it is also a mov to flv macconverter
Step 2: Add FLV video files to convert to mov
Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard drive and select FLV video files you want to convert. This flv to mov video converter for Mac supports drag-drop and batch conversion, so you can import and convert several flv files to mov at a time.
Step 3: Select output format as MOV
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 "MOV-QuickTime" as the output format.
Step 4: Start to convert FLV to MOV on Mac.
Click "Start" to convert flv to mov video for Mac, just forget it and have a cup of coffee.
With Wondershare mac flv to mov 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.
After you download Youtube flv files, you can't directly view it on your mac even your portable players like ipod or iphone. Generally, we are common to convert FLV to MOV Mac so that we can directly play the videos via iMovie or quicktime player. From now on, just enjoy youtube videos on your Mac or your ipod.
