How to import FLV files to iMovie for editing on Mac?

Many video-sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, metacafe, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, etc. always provide people with original videos about meaningful, interesting, or important events that happened all over the world in real time, and nearly all of them use FLV format to save these video files. Maybe you have collected many sorts of your favorite videos downloaded from the above mentioned video websites, and want to import them to your free editing program iMovie to do further editing, so that you can enjoy your own works on local computer or upload them to your website or blog to share with your friends or other people, or copy them to your electronic gadgets such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, etc. for playback.


However, FLV files can not be imported to iMovie directly, because iMovie only supports formats like DV (standard definition), HDV (high definition), MPEG-2, and AVCHD from Camcorders, MPEG-4, and MOV files. Hence, supposing you want to add FLV files to iMovie without troubles, you should convert them to iMovie acceptable formats like MP4, MOV firstly. It is the only way to achieve your goal smoothly. For this purpose, this article will show you how to import FLV files to iMovie for editing in detail.


Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube FLV Converter for Mac



Step 2: Add FLV files and specify the destination folder

Click “Add” button to import FLV files, and then click the drop-down list of “Format” to select an iMovie compatible format to convert, here I take .mp4 for example. If you want to combine several FLV files to be a single one, you can choose “Merge into on file” to realize it. At the same time, you should hit “Browse” to decide where to locate the output files; otherwise, they will be exported to a defaulted folder.



Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click button “Settings”, the following panel will show up. You can adjust parameters like codec name, screen size, bit rate, frame rate and so forth on it according to your own requirement.



Step 4: Convert
After the above three steps have done, you can press “Convert” to start converting. The following interface will show you the converting progress as well as elapsed time, remaining time, generated file size and estimated file size. All these would remind you how long time the conversion will cost and how much space it will occupy.



Step 5: Import the output MP4 files to iMovie
As soon as the FLV files have been converted to MP4 or other iMovie workable format, you can click “Open” to find out the output files. Afterwards, launch iMovie, and click File>Import to add the output files to iMovie for editing.
Well, the step-by-step instruction is completed; hope this FLV Converter for MAC can do you a favor while importing FLV files to iMovie for editing.

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How to convert FLV to iMovie Compatible with flv to imovie mac converter?
iMovie, a video editing software application on Mac, can help Mac users to edit their own home movies and videos. Its powerful features attract more and more Mac users' attentions.If you are a Mac user and wish edit Youtube videos.flv with iMovie, there is an advice for you

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Convert the Youtube videos.flv to video formats supported by iMovie before you use it,because iMovie doesn't support Youtube videos.flv natively.


With the FLV to iMovie mac Converter you can achieve the object for its following powerful features.The FLV to iMovie Converter can convert the Youtube videos.flv into video formats supported by iMovie with a few clicks before you edit them . And it can do batch conversion so that you can import as many as you wish at a time. Meanwhile, the mac FLV to imovie Converter can rip audio from Youtube videos.flv into audio formats,such as mp3,acc,ac3,wma,m4a,aiff,etc. With a friendly-user interface, the FLV to imovie Converter for Mac is a professional but easy-to-use application for both novice and proalike Mac users. Therefore, the mac FLV to imovie Converter is the great solution to solve the format problem that iMovie can't open the Youtube videos. flv. With the FLV Converter, iMovie lovers can feel free to editing the Youtube video files.flv on iMovie.

Step by Step Illustration on How to Convert Youtube Videos.flv to iMovie on Mac

Step1. Launch the FLV to iMovie Converter
The program is very simple and friendly to use like the following picture:



Step2. Input the Youtube videos.flv
Click the "Add file" button on the top.Browse the pop-up window and select he Youtube videos.flv you want to convert. Select one video file in the window and click the "Properities" button, there will be a pop-up menu showing its information like size, format and length of time,etc.








Step3. Set the output format
Select the video format supported by iMovie as the output format in the drop-down menu next to the "Profile" field. Click the "Settings" button, and there are four different zoom modes for you to choose: original,full screen, 16:9 and 4:3, from which to choose one to get right dimension ad aspect ratio as you wish.




Step4. Set the output path
After clicking the "Browse" button, select a file folder to store the converted videos.If you don't set the output path manually, the converter will automatically set the default output path for you.




Step5.Start conversion
The software will start the conversion right now by clicking the "Convert" button. The conversion time depends on the number of videos being converted and the speed of your Mac.





Step6.Import the output videos into iMovie
When the conversion is complete,open the iMoive and import the output videos from the FILE menu.

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