Once all settings are configured, hit the Encode button.
In most cases 96 kbps will be more than adequate, but play around with audio settings to find what sounds good to your ears. If the sound quality for this setting isn’t acceptable, click the Audio tab and choose a higher Audio bitrate. If bandwidth is a serious concern, stick with the default, otherwise switch this to a framerate matching the original content by clicking the Video tab and changing Framerate in Video Parameters.Īudio defaults to MP3 at 56 kbps. 12fps is a bit jumpy for full motion video. Choose FLV from the dropdown menu in the Target Format section.īy default, FFMPEGX converts all flash movies to 320×240 at 12fps and 200 kbps bitrate. This adds both playback preview functionality and the ability to work with MPEG-2 video.Īfter installation, locate the video you want to convert and drag it into the source format section of the FFMPEGX interface. FFMPEGX prompts you to install them after launching the application (be sure to right-click: You also need to download some individual file dependencies from the two locations listed below. The following is a tutorial to step you through the process. FFMPEGX recently added support for converting most movie formats to FLV files. If you want to host Flash movies on your own server, you need to convert them on your Mac and upload them yourself. YouTube also maintains control over where the file is hosted. At the same time, image quality is suspect and you get no control over parameters. Create an account, step through their wizard and your movie is online in fairly short order. If you want really easy, YouTube is likely the best way to get the job done.
I wrote about my favorite method for converting movies to Flash for Windows earlier.
#FFMPEGX WINDOWS FOR MAC OS#
In a recent discussion about options for sharing movies as Flash FLV or SWF format files, we were trying to find the most cost effective way to convert files for Mac OS X.
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