SWF & FLV Player for Mac is a free and smart Flash player for Mac OS. It is designed especially for viewing and managing Flash movies. It is More than a player for Mac. This player owns many powerful and useful functions.

What we can do with the software:

1. Create and manage play lists:

You can play FLV and SWF files randomly or one by one, repeat one item or the whole play list. Save play lists and it is easy to load your favorite movie collection later.

1. Browse Web for Flash movies.

Browse any web address to discover and save all SWF files. If the SWF file requires external resources. SWF & FLV Player will inform you. Moreover, it can help to download all the external required resources as well.

3.  The additional preferences.
Choose the default value for the video quality and update frequency, which both have an effect on your system’s resources consumed by SWF & FLV Player.

Play FLV and SWF:

Select File -> Open option from the Main menu and navigate to the file you want to play in a pop-up dialog. Additionally, you may use "Browse URL" option to search, preview and open FLV files at the certain web addresses.

Tips:

Due to intrinsic differences between SWF and FLV structure, the frame number and total frames values are not applicable for FLV files. Therefore, whenever you play FLV, Movie Controls panel displays the currently played movie time (in seconds) instead.

Similarly, instead of jumping to the specific frame (Movie -> Go to frame for SWF) you may quickly move to the certain time (Movie -> Go to time).

1.Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac.

a. Supported video formats:

AVI, XviD, MPEG, MPG, DAT, MOV, ASF, FLV, MP3, AC3, AAC, M4A, etc

b. Supported various players:

iPod, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Xbox 360, Archos, Sandisk, iRiver, Creative Zen, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc.

c. Video editing function:

Crop the video, trim the length, merge multiple video together and adjust the video effects.

d. Other functions:

Batch conversion and video profile customization

Capture pictures from video and save as jpeg or bmp photo.

Multi-language supported.

e: The intuitive interface:

2.iSkysoft iMedia Converter for Mac.

1. Supported formats:

Input DVD resources: DVD Video, DVD IFO file and DVD folder.

Output video formats: MP4, MKV, MOV, M4V, AVI, FLV, 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, MPG, ASF, VOB, etc.

Output audio formats: M4A, MP3, WAV, AC3, MKA, OGG, etc.

1. Supported video player:

iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, MP4 Player and more.

1. Video editing functions:

Trim movie length, crop video, set video effects, combine several videos into a single file, real-time preview your movies, and even add watermark onto your movies.

d: The easy-to-use interface:

3. Macvide FlashVideo Converter for Mac:

1. Supported video formats:

Input video formats: SWF and FLV.

Output video formats: mp4 (iPod Video), MOV (QuickTime), 3GP (cellular and mobile), ASF/WMV and MPEG files.

1. Supported video player:

iPhone, iPod 3G mobile devices and DVD players.

1. Video editing functions:

Modify codec parameters, adjust the size of the output video file, preview Flash Movie and control the video during the capture process.

1. The simple interface:

4.  4Media Video Converter for Mac.

a. Supported video formats:

MOV, AVI, WMV, MPEG1/2/4, 3GP, ASF, MP4, MP2, MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC, M4A, WAV and AC3

b. supported video player:

iPod, iTouch, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3 Archos, iRiver, Creative Zen and Cell Phones.

1. Video editing functions:

Take snapshot in preview window, trim the video/audio clip and set the output settings.

1. The pretty interface:

Now you have learnt the detailed information for each solution of video converter for Mac. You can pick one you think best to meet your requirement. Enjoy it.

Who may be interested in this article:

1. The video fans. They like live videos and want to enjoy them in their cell phones.
2. The travelers. They watch the videos in the mobile phones to kill much time when on the airplane or in the bus.
3. The kids or students. They love to watch the videos with their fantastic cell phones and enjoy the life on the go.

What we need:

1. The downloading tool: YouTube FLV Downloader.
2. The conversion tool: FLV to Video Converter Pro 2

How to download online videos:

1. Install and run the software.

1. Click to “Capture” tab to get URL of online videos. In this interface, the capturing function is enabled by default.

1. Click “Download” icon to start downloading.

1. Play the movies or music in “Library” tab.

1. Right click on the thumbnail and choose “Locate” to find the downloaded files on your PC.

How to convert FLV to 3GP:

1. Install and run the software.

1. Import FLV to the program.

1. Configure the output format 3GP and the output directory.

1. Click “Start” icon in “Convert” tab to begin encoding 3GP.

Now transfer 3GP files to your mobile phones. Enjoy the life on the go.

Windows Movie Maker owns the practical editing functions like join, cut, trim, add video effects and so on. Most important thing is that it is totally free as long as you have installed Windows Operating System. That is the benefit for installing Windows. You can find it in C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker. It is pretty good to edit videos without even one coin.

However, how to edit YouTube videos in Windows Movie Maker? That is a problem as Windows Movie Maker does not support FLV input for editing. AVI, MPEG and WMV are main accepted video formats. We can convert downloaded YouTube videos to AVI, MPEG or WMV to import them to Windows Movie Maker.

Then let’s us see how easy it is to edit YouTube in Windows Movie Maker.

Download YouTube.

Use Moyea YouTube FLV Downloader to download YouTube videos. It is really easy-to-use.

1. Run the software.

2. Type in the URL of YouTube videos.

3. Click “OK” to start downloading YouTube video.

4. Click “History” tab to see the downloaded videos. Right click and choose “Locate” to find it on your PC.

Now you have downloaded YouTube videos off YouTube web sites and save them on your PC.

Convert YouTube videos to AVI.

Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2 is very easy-to-use program. Three or four steps will make the conversion task be done. Moreover, you can add logo or text watermark to the video.

1. Run the program and import YouTube videos.

1. Specify the output settings: output format AVI and output folder.

1. Convert YouTube video to AVI.

OK, we have owned AVI files by the conversion from FLV to AVI. It is ready for you to import AVI to Windows Movie Maker for editing.

Run Windows Movie Maker and import AVI.

You can edit YouTube videos after importing them into Windows Movie Maker successfully. It is easy to add transitions for video files,add titles or credits, add pictures, replace the music on timeline and add the background music with it. Click here: http://www.flvsoft.com/create-flv-edit-movie-maker to know more detailed guide about how to edit YouTube with Windows Movie Maker.

What are the advantages of Moyea FLV Player:

1. Play all types of FLV. 

Now as the development of FLV video format, most of video-sharing web sites accept this video format. Moreover, Adobe Company which developed FLV format creates more types of FLV files like FLV encoded with H.264, F4V and M4V.  The general player can play the traditional FLV encoding with H.263, but not the new type of FLV with H.264, F4V and M4V. Moyea FLV Player can handle all these FLV files. This will make it stand out of so many players.

2. Play local and online FLV.

Moyea FLV Player can play both the local FLV and online FLV.  If you just want to enjoy and do not want to download YouTube, just copy and paste the URL of YouTube video for enjoying. It is very easy-to-use. One or two clicking will be done.

3. Capture the still picture as the thumbnail.

This useful player has the function to capture a still picture with one click. You can pick any frame of image to collect or make other use. Of course it is allowed to play FLV with the full screen.

Tips:

If you are still looking for the free downloading tool, then try Moyea YouTube FLV Downloader. It has so powerful that owns batches of useful functions:

* Capture URL of playing videos automatically ready for download.

* Support multiple browsers: IE, Firefox, Maxthon, Safari and 360SE.

* Batch download FLV with multi-thread technology.

* Create your own playlist such as rock songs, hot movies and more.

* Convenient floating playback window.

* Support full screen playback.

* Powerful library manager for video collection.

* Flexible browse media library: list and thumbnail.

* Support HTTP and RTMP protocol.

* Quick filter and search favorite movie and music.

I often get the feedback from the customers or the video fans about flash files. They would ask “why the plug-in program: FLV Importer Pro for Adobe Premiere didn’t allow me to import SWF files directly into Adobe Premiere although I had installed the version of Adobe Premiere which it can handle?” In fact, these users or video fans generally confuse Flash files and FLV files. They are totally different files.

Two types of SWF:

SWF files are always used for creating animated display graphics. For the video aspect, it can be departed into two kinds of files. One is the file which only contains the player controls or player skins. Namely it is the look or the appearance of the video which is related to the style, color and the mode. The other one is the independent SWF files. What is the independent SWF? It contains both the player skin and the video content and can be played online with Adobe Flash Player. These two types of SWF files is ending with *.swf.

About Flash Video (FLV)

FLV is the short name of Flash Live Video. This kind of file is the video content of flash files. Generally the extension of these files are *.flv. We can play FLV online or offline using the FLV player like Moyea FLV Player. This type of video file can not be played directly with the browser we used like IE, Firefox and Safari. We must embed FLV into the SWF to form the independent SWF files. Then we can enjoy the video with the browser online or offline.

Back to the question that the customer asked, here it is clear why it is not valid to import SWF to Adobe Premiere with Moyea FLV Importer Pro for Adobe Premiere. FLV Importer Pro can only import FLV directly into Adobe Premiere. SWF is not FLV files so it is invalid. It is obvious that the customer choose the wrong product. SWF to video converter probably is what he wanted.

How to import SWF to Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere accepts AVI files due to the advantages of keeping the original video quality at the max. Then how to convert SWF to AVI for editing in Adobe Premiere? I recommend a program: SWF to Video Converter to complete this task perfectly.

This SWF to Video Converter is a professional Flash converter for Flash SWF to video conversion. It can convert Macromedia Flash SWF to AVI, MPEG, iPod/PSP (MP4), 3GP, animated GIF, image series and more other popular formats. 

Download and install this useful program. Click the folder icon to add the wanted SWF. You can convert Flash movies to AVI with the default player. The following is the simple guide about how to convert SWF to AVI.

1. After importing SWF file, it shows the properties of the file. Click “Next”.

2. Click next button to adjust the position of the video and add a watermark.

3. Choose “AVI Video” as the output format. Then Click “Next”.

4. Click “Play and Capture” button to start recording.

5. Play the video and each move you make will be recorded. Click “Finish” to start conversion after it completes recording. If you want to skip some frames, just click “Stop (Start) Capturing”.

Now you will get AVI files and you can easily import AVI to Adobe Premiere.