Easily Edit a YouTube Video with a Free FLV Editor
As a non-profit, you may want to edit your special event video you posted on YouTube but do not have the original. Over the last 20 years of working with non-profit organizations, I have experienced those occasions where a source file, whether it be the original photo, newsletter, brochure or video, was not readily available. Specifically, you may have an FLV file (which is a compressed, Flash video file) that an online volunteer produced for you but do not have access to the uncompressed source video to edit and encode again as a compressed FLV video. You may wonder: I don't have the source video file, so how can I edit the FLV file I do have? When your non-profit organization does not have the original video to edit and then encode again as an FLV, in a pinch, you can use Moyea's Free FLV Editor Lite to edit your FLV flash-based video. Where can you use this free Flash Editor? Some Suggestions: 1. Trim an FLV video (cut off a date, remove an old logo; reducing the duration of an FLV video when the source video is not available to edit and encode again to an FLV video)
2. Join two or more FLV videos, whether the FLV Video has been encoded with h263 [Flash 7], On2's VP6 codec [Flash 8] or H264 encoded video [which is Flash Player 9, Update 3 and newer]. Please note: up to five 5 files can be imported in the Free FLV Editor Lite application).
3. Replace an audio track with an mp3 of your choosing by Unlinking the audio and video tracks, delete the audio track and import a different mp3 file.
4. Extract the audio track of an FLV file: say you wanted to use the audio portion of your FLV video PSA as an audio ONLY PSA, then FLV Editor will allow you to export the audio as an MP3 file (Note: Only FLV container files with encoded with mp3 audio can be exported as an mp3 with FLV Lite Editor. Thus, for example, using the Free FLV Editor, the mp3 audio can not be exported from an H264 encoded video with AAC encoded audio (viewable with Adobe Flash Player 9, Update 3 (or newer); update 3 is specifically version 9,0,115,0.
5. To add additional FLV Metadata, which is information about the video embedded in the video: For example, you could add the author or title of the video (on the tab where you click Metadata, you will note that the free FLV Editor application does not list current metadata embedded in the FLV). However, when an FLV file is imported, some metadata is shown, as follows:
- video: codec used (for example, an h263 encoded video would require at least Flash 7 to view in your browser), resolution (eg, 640x480), video duration and frames per second
- audio: codec used, bit rate, sampling and number of channels
So, when you do not have access to your original video to edit, the Free FLV Editor Lite may serve your purposes to re-work your FLV video file. You can download the Free FLV Editor Lite application via the following URL: http://RandyTyler.org/u/flv After installing, bypass the pitch to upgrade to their paid version by clicking continue; also, as of late, Moyea seems to automatically launch your e-mail application with a prepared message, suggesting you pass on the news about their FLV editor. For further information about how a non profit organization can develop a productive virtual volunteering program through the use of appropriate technology, please visit this Online Volunteering Resource.
