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Importing F4V files
I am working with a PC editor and sent him QT and PNG files to make a flash DVD. It works on PCs but I need it to also work on Mac. I have a Mac G5 in Leopard. He gave me a thumbdrive with the PNG and F4v files which copied onto my desktop.
I imported the PNG files into FCP but the F4V files will not import. I do not have flash on my Mac.
Bottom line is, how doI make the Flash project of an hour work on Mac and PC?
I appreciate any help.
Adair
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5 Replies
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It’s not clear to me if you want to play the Flash program on your Mac, or edit with the F4Vs. If the former, do you have Flash Player on your machine? Did you get a swf file to play or just the F4Vs and pgns. If the latter, try Perian (https://perian.org/) to open the F4Vs. It’s a free QT component which I know opens flvs in QT. It may also open F4Vs. I seem to recall that F4Vs are an mpeg-4 file. If you change the extension to .mov maybe it will play in QT or FCP.
John
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I was trying to make a DVD from the F4v files that will play on MACs. The editor that made the flash files did so on a PC and they don’t automatically play on a MAC. The final product must play on MAC and PC.
Adair
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What format was the master that made the F4Vs. That’s what you want to make a DVD. You have to turn those masters into mv2 files (and audio – aiff or ac3). If he made the program in Flash and simply exported F4Vs you might be better off asking him to export a Quicktime movie. Then you can use that in Compressor to encode your mv2s and audio for the DVD (which you’d make in DVDSP). Make sure he makes the QTs with the best codec possible as QTs from Flash are not the best quality. Hopefully, a video master exists. Flash was never designed as a video creation tool.
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor
ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE Enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)
Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN
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John — I know you responded to this thread in ’09, but I would like your thoughts.
It’s 2011 and Perian still doesn’t support the f4v format. ;-o
Going from MOV to f4v is apparently easy, just change the suffix to f4v (so I’m told).
Going the other direction, it doesn’t seem to work. I can play a f4v in Quicktime, but can’t save it in any other format. MPEGStreamclip doesn’t like this f4v, neither does VLC. Flash itself doesn’t even want it.
Bad file, maybe…? Dunno, since I didn’t create it. Seems like I would need to ask the client for the clip in another format.
Any additional suggestions for a cheap/free translator from F4V to MOV?
MacPro 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 14GB memory – OSX10.6.4 FCP7
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If you can open the f4V in QT, but not export, you might need QT Pro. If you have FCP installed you have QT Pro. You said you tried to saveit. Did you try to export from QT? Otherwise, I’m out of ideas. Can the originator of the f4v give you a QT?
John
MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
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