How to Convert FLV to iPad on Mac?
What is FLV?
Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files.
The FLV format has established itself as the format of choice for embedded video on the web. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Hulu, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.
The following tutorial will show you how to convert FLV to iPad on Mac OS X (including Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) using FLV to iPad Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Download Mac FLV to iPad Converter and run it.
Step 2. Load the FLV files you want to convert
Drag and drop the FLV files to the program or you can click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and add the FLV files you want to convert to the program.
Batch conversion is also supported by this Mac FLV Converter, so you can load several FLV files at one time.
Step 3. Output Settings
After the FLV files are imported, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
If you don't know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name. For exapmle, you can select "iPod Touch (*.MPEG-4)" when you want to convert FLV to MP4 for playback on your iPod Touch. The default setting works well. Of course, if you don't want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings.
Step 4. Edit your Video Files
This Mac FLV to iPad Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file.
1. Capture a clip from your video file
Click "Trim" button to open the Trim window, and set the starting time and ending time by dragging the slider then you can convert a clip from the FLV file on Mac OS X.
2. Crop video footage
If you want to remove the black borders or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the "Crop" button to crop the current video file by dragging the frame around the video.
3. Video effect
Click the "Effect" button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume. You can also choose to flip the video and apply a special video effect to your video file by selecting a special effect from: Gray, Emboss, Old Film and Negative.
Step 5. Start the video conversion
Click the "Convert" button to start converting FLV to iPad and then you can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.
