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How to Export Movie from Final Cut Pro (FCP) to FLV?

After editing your own movies on Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express, you may want to put them on your website for presenting your introduction or promoting your services/products. For users with the older version of FCP, FCE or iMovie, it is easy to export FLV by choosing File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion. However, if you could not find Flash FLV as output format from FCP/FCE/iMovie, you may need a FCP to FLV converter to get Flash videos.
Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac is the best FCP to FLV converter for you to handle videos on iMac/MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard or Leopard. The Mac FCP to FLV converter supports loading .3gp, .m4v, .avi, .dv, .flc, .mp4 videos from FCP/FCE/iMovie and converts FCP movies to FLV as short film. Below are the steps to export Final Cut Pro movie to FLV with Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Load Final Cut Pro movies to Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac.
After exporting movies from Final Cut Pro, run Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac as the Mac FCP to FLV converter, and click the "Add" button to load FCP short films for conversion.
Step 2. Choose FLV output format.
Click the "Format" option and choose Flash Video > FLV-Flash Video Format(*.flv) as output format. This format is compatible to most machines.

Step 3. Transcode FCP movies to FLV.
Click the "Convert" button under the preview window, and the Mac FCP to FLV converter starts converting Final Cut Pro movies to FLV for playing on webpage.
Tips:
1. After converting Final Cut Pro movies to FLV, you need Flash players to navigate the video playback on webpage. You can use free web players like JW player, Moyea PlayBox player and Flow player to present your short films on website.
2. You can set the video resolution of the FLV videos by clicking the "Settings" before conversion.
3. The above step-by-step guide with Aunsoft Video Converter for Mac also works for the movies exported from Final Cut Express and iMovie. In other words, you can also convert FCE movies to FLV, iMovie videos to FLV on Mac OS X.

If you have installed Macromedia Flash 8 in your mac, you will have an FLV video exporter into Final Cut's QuickTime conversion menu and then you are able to directly export Flash video(FLV files) from FCP. However, Flash 8 might not be the right option for you for its expensive or it can't assist you to export SWF file. Then you have a suitable choice, that is, FCP to Flash(FLV/SWF) converter.


With FCP to FLV/SWF(Flash) converter, you are able to convert a movie created in Final Cut Pro to Flash FLV/SWF or generate a HTML web page embedded with skinning and customize Flash player with a few mouse clicks after you export movie from Final Cut Pro as QuickTime movie. This workaround is simple-to-use yet professional, suitable for both beginner and experienced mac users.

Step1. Export Video from Final Cut Pro
After editing video with FCP, Use File > Export > Quicktime Movie to export video from Final Cut Pro. And its exported video is in the MOV format.

Step2. Launch the FCP to Flash converter and add FCP movie
Double click its item to launch FCP to Flash converter and click "Add Video" button to import FCP movies.



Step3. Choose the output quality
Click the "Customize" button and in the "Profile" field, then according to your requirement, choose the output quality: F4V, High quality, Low quality, Normal quality or Custom.



Step4. Start FCP to Flash conversion
You just need to click the "Start" button and the FCP to Flash conversion will start automatically.



About Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro shorting for FCP, is a professional video editing software program developed by Apple Inc for mac users, which offers pro-level editing for people who had hit iMovie's ceiling and wanted more editing control and options. As part of the Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro allows video editing for highest-possible quality and mix frame sizes, frame rates and formats in the same Timeline in real time.

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One friend of mine is using Final Cut Express to edit your film footage and the final film will be uploaded to your website for viewing. He need to get the videos to FLV format for easily web viewing. Unfortunately, FCE doesn't export to FLV. Do you have this problem with my friends?

My advice is to use FCE to Flash converter. The FCE to FLV converter can meet your need to convert FCE exported movie to FLV/SWF and generate a HTML web page embedded with flash player so that you can easily upload movie exported from Final Cut Express to Youtube and insert your masterpiece created in FCE to your website.

Step1. Export Video from Final Cut Express
Export video from Final Cut Express. And the exported video is in the MOV format.

Step2. Launch the FCE to Flash converter
After download the FCE to Flash converter, double click its item to launch it. The interface is user-friendly, look like this:

Step3.add MOV files exported from FCE
Press "Add Video" button on the top of the interface and browse the pop-up directory, choose all mov files exported from FCE to import into the converter.



Step4. Add effect
Hit the "Effect" tab. Select a cool special effect for you flash.



Step5. Start FCE to Flash conversion
You just need to click the "Start" button and the FCE to Flash conversion will start automatically.



Knowledge on Final Cut Express
Final Cut Express(FCE) is a powerful and extensible video editing software designed by Apple Inc. The supported video formats by FCE is DV, HDV and AVCHD. The special feature is its ability to import iMovie 08 projects and use iMovie as a video library. Among three distinct tiers of video-editing software Apple offered (iMovie, FCE, FCP), iMovie catered to beginners, Final Cut Express mid-level video editing fans and Final Cut Pro pro-level editing people.

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