Export FLV using Final Cut Pro

[Alan Bezet]

Hey All,

People were looking for a quality converter that is cheap or free. The best thing that I have found that is FREE is MPEGSTREAMCLIP. It is FREEWARE and down loadable. Its basically a front end to Quicktime. But anytime FCP can’t play well with a weird codec or a I want to do a conversion to Flash this handy and easy program does the job.

Download available at:<https://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html>

Just drag a video into the interface once you open it, go to the export menu and explore. Do some test exports to fine tweak what you need.

-Alan

[Craig Jurkoic]

Hi. I tried this MPEG Streamclip. I was unable to get it to convert to flash however. I don’t see flash as an export option. I see “FLC” as an export option but that’s an animation format I think, not flash.

[Alan Bezet]

Good Morning,

I just opened MPEGSTREAMCLIP and imported a clip, and found the FLV export option follow this path.

File>Export to Other Formats>Flash Video-and there it is.

I have Flash CS3 so that might be why it works for me. BUT give it another try any way, make sure that you have the most up to date vesion of MPEGSTEAMCLIP.

Or just try the free <https://www.zamzar.com/>.

Best of luck-Alan

Alan Bezet
Production Manager
Washington, D.C.
alan.bezet@gmail.com

[J. Tad newberry]

? I’m not seeing it. I don’t see any export, convert nor demux option for “Flash” nor “FLV”…(MPEG Streamclip 1.7)

Thanks again!

J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv

[Alan Bezet]

I am running MPEGSTREAMCLIP Version 1.9.1 (1.9.1), on a Mac. So you might need to update your version. On this version you- File>Export to other formats>Select Flash Video(FLV) in the drop down menu.

Alan Bezet
Production Manager
Washington, D.C.
alan.bezet@gmail.com

[J. Tad newberry]

Hi Alan, thanks for the heads up on the upgrade…

On “other formats”, mine has an “FLC” option, but no “Flash Video” or “FLV.”

Thanks again!

J. Tad Newberry
Big Ya Productions
Power Mac G5
Dual 2 GHz
http://www.bigya.tv

[Saya Hillman]

Having the same issue as Tad, with an FLC option but no FLV option in Streamclip, though I think I have the latest version (1.9.1) — curious if anyone has any ideas for us? Trying to export a Flash file using FCP.

MAC OSX 10.5.6
1.8 GHz Power PC iMAC G5
768 MB DDR SDRAM

MAC OSX 10.5.2
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBookPro
2 GB MHz DDR2 SDRAM

LaCie d2 Extreme 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Buffer
LaCie Big Disk 380GB
FCP 6.0.5

[Alan Bezet]

https://www.zamzar.com/

Alan Bezet
Production Manager
Washington, D.C.
alan.bezet@gmail.com

[John Berardi]

I believe Alan said he has Flash CS3. This is probably why he has the flash export option in MPEGstreamclip. Unless you have Flash you wont be able to export to it without the other programs mentioned above.

[Titus Nachbauer]

You’re probably right on the MPEGStreamclip issue, I was never able to encode FLV with that program, but then I don’t have Flash either. I did however find that one can use ffmpegx (Google it) to encode to FLV in pretty high quality for free. It’s a frontend for the open source ffmpeg command line tool. If that scares you, just give it a try, you will see it’s easy enough to use. If you like it and want to use it for commercial purposes you should register of course, to support development. However compared to Adobe and Sorenson ffmpegx is still cheap.

The On2 encoder is probably a bit better if you tweak it, because the keyframe detection and other nifty features are pretty advanced, so if you need really small files I would go for that. Also ffmpeg has the nasty habbit of giving you no clue to what’s wrong if an encode fails. You will always have to check the logfile for that, but hey that’s a frontend for you. But it’s still free.

My procedure is as follows:

1. Export the video from Final Cut in normal editing resolution. Use File > Export > Quicktime Movie for this.
2. Use compressor to encode, resize and deinterlace the video to h.264 with lots of bandwidth (see the podcast below).
3. Use ffmpeg to encode the video to FLV at the same resolution and at the desired bandwidth. Check the “high quality” and “multiple pass options” and set the keyframes to one in every 5 seconds for better results. Ideally you should not have to encode the audio again.

This will often take some experimentation, but you can get really professional results.

The second step is crucial, because ffmpeg will not give very good results on deinterlacing and it won’t accept many input formats in the default install. Of course in an ideal world you wouldn’t compress anything twice, but then most people do that anyway when uploading to Youtube.

See these great COW podcasts which helped me a lot to clarify things (they do contratict each other a little bit, I wonder if you will notice 😉
https://podcasts.creativecow.net/final-cut-studio-podcast/final-cut-pro-compressor-deinterlacing‘>
https://podcasts.creativecow.net/final-cut-studio-podcast/final-cut-pro-compressor-deinterlacing

https://podcasts.creativecow.net/final-cut-studio-podcast/compressing-for-ipod-and-itunes

thanks to the makers of these casts!

Kind Regards,

Titus

Nachbrenner Productions
http://www.nachbrenner.com