How to Convert MPEG to FLV on Mac

If you are a YouTube or Yahoo Video enthusiast and want to share your MPEG files online, you may puzzled by which format is can be uploaded to YouTube. FLV files are the preferred choice for its’ smaller size and transmit speed. FLV has been the main stream of the format applied on the video websites. So more and more people needs to convert MPEG to FLV these days.

To convert video in a correct way, you should know the summary knowledge of the two formats.

Brief on MPEG and FLV

MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group, a group of ISO. It’s also about the series of standards and formats developed by this group. The MPEG standards contain different parts, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
FLV is a format used for delivering video online with the Adobe Flash Player. Besides used by online video websites, LFV also can be used as video inside your animation as any other video.
 
This is a tutorial on how to convert MPEG to FLV on Mac with the Video Converter for Mac. If you need to convert on Windows OS, you can go to the Video Converter guide for more details.

How to use this MPEG to FLV Converter for Mac?

Step 1 Run the video converter for Mac

Find the downloaded DMG files in you library and run it directly. You’ll see the main screen as below:

Step 2 Add MPEG files to the program

To make the software more convenient and efficient, this tool enables you to add video by dragging and dropping the file to the main screen. Also you can add file under the menu of File on the Menubar to prepare the MPEG to FLV conversion.

Step 3 Set the output format as FLV

Click the format icon you will see a list of the profile. You can find the FLV format under the list of Web Video.

Step 4 Start the conversion of MPEG to FLV

After the 3 steps, you have prepared the conversion enough. Just click the “Start” and you will see the whole process of converting. Several seconds are needed to wait the conversion.

Tips for better MPEG to FLV conversion:

1, This is a converter for Mac OS X 10.5 or above (Lion included).
2, You can capture the screen when you preview the source video.
3 This converter enables you to merge several clips into a whole one
 

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