WMV to Flash mac converter, convert WMV to Flash, add WMV video to website on mac

Part1. What is an WMV file and How to play WMV files on mac

WMV, Windows Media Video is a compressed video file format developed by Microsoft. If you are Mac users, you will have a common problem that how to play WMV on mac. As we all know, QuickTime is the default media player on mac and WMV file is not supported by QuickTime player. So mac users will come up to a problem that how to play WMV files on mac. Don't distress, there are three free and easy methods to this problem:

1. Windows Media Player for Mac OS X: This player is offered by Microsoft for Mac users. With this player, mac users can playback Windows Media content: WMV and WMA files. The Windows Media Player for Mac is available as a free download form Microsoft, however, Microsoft no longer offers future updates and product support until Windows Media Player for mac version9.

2. VLC player for mac: This player is a cross-platform open-source multimedia player which can read most audio and video formats, let alone WMV and WMA files. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work, even can convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6.

3. Flip4Mac: This is the easiest way to play Windows Media files(WMV and WMA) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browse, such as Firefox, safari. And This component also enables mac users to edit WMV files on Mac with QuickTime based editing software like iMovie and Final Cut Pro.

Part2. How to edit WMV movie clips on mac

If on the Windows, you can edit WMV movie clips with Windows movie maker, but how about on Mac OS? There are several popular video editor on mac, like iMovie(Free), FCP(Final Cut Pro), FCE(Final Cut Express). When you edit WMV files with these video editor for mac, you will find all of them can't support WMV video format. Then there are two methods to help you: one is using Flip4Mac plug-in, the other is to convert WMV to a suitable formats with video converter for mac.

Part3. How to embed WMV video clips on your website

There are many video converter to convert WMV to FLV and WMV to SWF, such as Free Video to Flash converter, Riva FLV Encoder, ABC Video to Flash Converter. But all of them is for windows, not for mac. I recommend you a mac version------Doremisoft video to flash converter for mac that is able to easily convert WMV to FLV, convert WMV to SWF and generate HTML page embedded with flash. Therefore, this WMV to Flash converter mac is the right solution to insert WMV files into website and blog and share WMV files with your friends on communities, such as YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, Dailymotion.

Step1. Add WMV files into the converter
Click the "Add Video" and browse the opened directory, then choose all WMV videos you want to add. Finally hit "Open".

Step2. Cropping WMV video clips
Click the "Edit" button and in the edit panel, hit the "Crop" tab, then you can crop the video clips to get rid of unwilling area by dragging the dotted lines on the left video player by moving the mouse cursor.



Step3. Applying effect
Press the "Effect" tab and add effect to video files, like changing the video Brightness, Contrast, Saturation.



Step4. Start WMV to FLV/SWF conversion
The final step is click "Start" button to get WMV to Flash conversion started. After conversion is finished, press "Find Targets" to open the output video folder and you will find there are three kind of output video formats: FLV, SWF, HTML.

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