How to convert FLV to AVI and AVI to FLV Videos
on Linux and BSD with avidemux and ffmpeg - Simple video editting
with LiVES
I'm starting to learn some video editting, as I need it sometimes
for building client websites.
As a Linux user I needed to have some kind of software for amateur
video editting. For Microsoft Windows OS, there are tons of video
editor programs both free and proprietary (paid).
Windows users can for instance use the free software program
VirtualDub (licensed under GPL license) to easily
cut movie scenes from a video.
Unfortunately
VirtualDub didn't have a Linux or BSD version
so in my case I had to look for another soft.
I consulted a friend of mine who recommended a video editor program
called
LiVES.
If you haven't done any video editting previously on Linux (like my
case was), you will certainly be happy to try
LiVES
LiVES can extract only sound from videos, cut selected parts
(frames) from videos and do plenty of other nice stuff. It is just
great piece of software for anyone, who needs to do
simply
(newbie) video editting.
With
LiVES even an amateur video editor like me could,
immediately learn how to chop a movie scenes ...
To master the basics and edit one video in FLV format it took me
about 1 hour of time, as in the beginning it was confusing to get
confortable with the program scenes selector.
One downside of
LiVES it failure to open a FLV file I wanted
to edit.
In order to be able to edit the flv movie hence I first had to
convert the FLV to AVI or MPEG, as this two (video
multimedia formats) are supported by LiVES video editor.
After completing my video scenes chopping to the AVI file I had to
convert back to FLV.
In order to complete the
convertion between FLV to AVI format on
my Debian Linux, I used a program called avidemux
Avidemux has a nice GUI interface and also like
Lives
has support for video editting, though I have never succesfully
done any video edits with it.
Avidemux IMHO is user (completely intuitive). To convert the FLV to
AVI, all I had to do was simply open the file FLV file, press
(CTRL+S) select my FLV video file format and select the output file
extension format to be AVI.
Further on, used
LiVES to cut my desired parts from my video
of choice. Once the cuts were complete I saved the new cutted
version of video to AVI.
Then I needed the video again in FLV to upload it in Joomla, so
used
ffmpeg -
command line tool to do the AVI to FLV file
converstion, like so:
hipo@noah:~$ /usr/bin/ffmpeg -i my_media_file.avi
my_video_file.flv
Hope this article helps someone aiming to do basic video editting
on Linux with LiVES and just like needed
FLV to AVI and AVI
to FLV convertions.