Editor's review
Convert Video Files to Macromedia Flash SWF and FLV. Add watermarks using text, transparent image, or animated GIF. Trim video, apply effects, add movie player control, mix secondary audio. Supports batch processing and also automatic FTP upload.
Features: Flash Video Studio will help you format various video files in SWF and FLV. Besides these Macromedia formats this utility is able to convert AVI, DIVX, MPG, WMV, ASF, and QuickTime MOV videos. Support the new AVC/H264 Video format. Flash 8 with/without alpha is also supported. Adding watermark is another feature available. You could watermark with text strings, static images, animated GIF or a transparent image in PNG format. A range of effects could be applied that includes emboss, sepia, motion blur, etc. You would be able to adjust compressions settings. Other video parameters you could tweak are frame rate, video size, video quality, etc. Video trimming is possible as is adding an audio track in WAV, MP3 and WMA formats.
You can choose to publish a movie with or without a navigation control. Lists of controls are available in the utility. The customization of the navigation control is carried out by selecting to have the controls you want. You can set the colors you want. Adding chapter list, multi-lingual sub-titles and publishing of multiple videos in a player with play-list is possible. Flash 8 + chroma channel support also is available. Encoded video in this format has an alpha channel and when combined with other SWF it will be visible as background. Additional features include adding events to synchronize animation with video, full screen playback and Jpeg thumbnail etc. It is a batch processor and has auto FTP.
Overall: A very handy utility.
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