FLV Producer: Converting and Playing FLV Videos

While there are tons of other software you can use, both free and paid, I strongly recommend you get FLV Producer by Tracy Childers to convert your videos from WMV / AVI to FLV.

Although you can easily use Camtasia Studio for screen capture videos, FLV Producer works much better for full-length or motion videos. In other words, if your video involves a human face, a lot of movement, and other non-screen objects, FLV Producer will convert videos faster, smoother with better compression and production levels.

All you do is select the video on your PC, define the output location and file name. Then edit your video conversion settings ( you can use the predefined ones), as well as the quality of the audio / video. Click on “Start Encoding” and FLV Producer will easily convert your videos to FLV.

Here’s the difference between videos played using the players provided with FLV Producer:

• The first frame makes the preview image – You don’t have to display a blank player like you do with a lot of other video players. Neither do you have to create a separate “preview image”. The video just takes the first frame and enhances it to make the preview, therefore when you play the video it transitions smoothly to the rest of the video.
• You can choose to preload the movie – great for shorter movies but sucks up bandwidth pretty quickly if the video is long – after all not everyone will click the play button so why load the whole movie unless you have a specific objective?
• URL redirect after movie – Yes, you can bring users to a specified website once the movie ends. A great way to make money from affiliate marketing – just do a video of the product you’re promoting and once the movie is over bring the user to the product page with your affiliate link!

FLV Producer costs $97, so I understand if you need to think twice before getting it. However let me assure you, I’ve searched everywhere for VLF converters and players that are specialized for Internet marketers and affiliate marketers, and most can’t compare to FLV Producer. An investment here is more than worthwhile, especially if you plan to do more video blogging in the future.

You should also take a look at FLV Plugin for WordPress, which makes it even easier for you to display FLV videos on your WordPress blog. It was developed to be used with FLV Producer but you can use it to display any FLV video on your blog.

If it’s not for you – and you don’t mind the technical difficulties and lack of features – there are of course other choices.

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