Thanks for the advice and help, everybody. I also found websites where
you type in the URL of the .flv video that you want to convert, and it
does so right on the website and e-mails the converted file to you, so
you don't even have to download the original video to convert it.
But that seems a little awkward and time-consuming. While checking out
the various other options and possibilities above, I downloaded the
free Perian plug-in for QuickTime, and found that it works very well,
and seems to be the best and most convenient way to convert .flv and
other common video formats. It enables QuickTime to handle a bunch of
formats that it otherwise could not (which makes me wonder why Apple
hasn't done it).
When you install Perian, it puts a preference pane into the System
Prefs, and in the "About Perian" section of that pane it says:
"Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs.
It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several
libraries:
• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old
FFusion component:
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2
• DivX
• 3ivx
• H.264
• Flash Video
• Flash Screen Video
• VP6
• H263I
• VP3
• HuffYUV
• ffvhuff
• MPEG-1 & 2 Video (in supported formats)
• Fraps (up to v4)
• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2
• Flash ADPCM
• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
• MPEG Layer I and II audio
• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio
• Snow wavelet video
• DosBox video
• Nellymoser ASAO audio
• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with
AVIImporter.component:
• AVI file format
• FLV file format
• NUV file format
• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:
• MKV file format
• Subtitles:
• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha
• SRT
• SAMI
• liba52, via A52Codec:
• AC3 audio"
Most of the above means little to me, but what I like is that after I
installed this free Perian plug-in, QuickTime Player (I gave Apple the
extra $25 to activate the extra or "pro" features) became enabled to
play .flv files downloaded from YouTube and other such sites by Miro
(which is a great video search engine--also free, like Perian) and can
now convert (export) them into formats usable in iMovie and Final Cut.
So, problem solved! To sum up: among all the options for
converting .flv to .mov, I vote for the Perian plug-in for QuickTime,
for anyone else who wants to do same. Best of all, it's free.
Tom
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