61 Responses to “RichFLV - Finally, an FLV Editor”

1. #  Fuad Kamal July 25, 2008 3:35 PM

   I would guess that the reason no one else has made an FLV editor is because generally the workflow is to edit the original clip in its native format, and then export to flv. FLV might be a common output format, but I have never heard of anyone editing in that format. We use flv solely as a compressed output format for the purpose of loading our video into flash player. Editing in flv is a bad idea for the same reason as editing in any compressed format is - you want to edit the source and then compress on output to maintain the best possible quality.  

2. #  golgotha July 25, 2008 5:02 PM

   I have been using this since it was released. Glad to see it's getting it's well deserved spotlight.  

3. #  phillip July 25, 2008 10:42 PM

   Fuad is right... but, sometimes you just gotta git-er done. This is indeed a nice app, thanks for posting.  

4. #  Benjamin Dobler July 26, 2008 5:37 AM

   Hey Ted,
   glad you like RichFLV :-)
   @fuad kamal:
   In general you`re right but the reason I developed this was because sometimes you export you flv which can take a long time and then you realize you need to make small adjustments. Like to cut the first 2 seconds or add a cuepoint. Normally you would have to start the whole ecoding process again. This is where I think an FLV editor makes sense.
   
   Benz  

5. #  Benjamin Dobler July 26, 2008 5:44 AM

   @fuad kamal:
   ah and you preserve the quality of the flv because it does not recompress the file when editing. It just plays with the flv tags and rearranges them so no loss of quality.  

6. #  Tony Fendall July 27, 2008 2:34 PM

   I think you guys are missing a key user group for this application.
   
   I have many non-technical friends who are avid youtube users, and reguslarly download videos from youtube in flv format. Many of them would love the ability to edit these videos slightly.
   
   They don't care about file formats, they don't want to have to do a lengthy file conversion, they don't need perfect quality. They just want to edit their video file.  

7. #  VOiD July 28, 2008 1:10 AM

   a-we-so-me!
   I would only see a more precise control over which frame will be the starting one and the end one for "cropping" video!
   There was need for this tool!
   
   Thank you  

8. #  Randy Ksar July 28, 2008 6:57 AM

   very cool. Thanks for sharing!  

9. #  Benjamin Dobler July 28, 2008 1:02 PM

   @void:
   You can go into the keyframe panel and select any keyframe available in the flv and at the bottom you can select "Set Inpoint"/"Set Outpoint".
   It can only cut on keyframes because otherwise it would not play correctly...
   Benjamin  

10. #  Frank July 30, 2008 2:56 PM

    Point about editing flv and f4v files is that these are going to be *the* source files. FME in combination with videosources (grabbers for pal-/ntsc-video, dvi-/vga-signals, ...) could provide a nice consistent, scriptable way to get video into the pc.
    In most cases the video quality is sufficient. Would be overkill - practically make it unusable - to use dv, tapes of 60 min ... all this prof-video stuff... brr :)
    
    I just need a good editor in case I want or need to do clean up the flv and f4v a bit.
    
    I have to have a closer look at RichFLV. It doesn't work with f4v though - or does it?  

11. #  Jonathon Neville August 1, 2008 11:31 AM

    Can keyframes be added to FLV files (in a future version of RichFLV or in any other way)?  

12. #  Denis August 4, 2008 6:14 AM

    Really useful tool.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Denis, from Brazil  

13. #  Venkat August 7, 2008 12:40 AM

    Superb tool... BTW Benjamin if you show this tool to Google, I'm sure they will pay you a fortune and make u their employee :)  

14. #  Benjamin Dobler August 12, 2008 12:46 PM

    @Venkat: Haha thanks but I would rather like to get employed by Adobe ;-)  

15. #  Daniel August 22, 2008 2:48 PM

    Nice work, Benjamin...I think any video format as popular as flv deserves, even needs to have an editor...what if you download a video and want to make changes to it? Or if you want to change the soundtrack? This is a very common situation nowadays, and you have given us a tool to solve the problem. Great job.  

16. #  Daniel August 22, 2008 2:54 PM

    ahhh...just a curiosity: when I try to export an flv as swf, the program shows an "file is being saved" message, for a looong time...till it freezes. Is this long delay normal or is it a frequent bug? The flv file is quite small (300 kb) so I don´t know if the program has frozen or if it is really processing the flv into swf...could you shed some light on that? Thanks again.  

17. #  Rajat August 31, 2008 9:13 AM

    There is also Movica @ http://movica.sourceforge.net  

18. #  Anonymous September 6, 2008 10:23 AM

    Movica is apparently one of those programs that intentionally deceives you. Doesn't accept flv as source, bad editor also, but it doesn't claim to be much in that department.  

19. #  Anonymous September 15, 2008 11:02 PM

    Does anyone know a way to change the videodatarate of an FLV? Mine is way too high and I no longer have access to my original QT file! Please help, thanks!  

20. #  Matt September 16, 2008 4:47 PM

    Maybe I'm blind, but I can't find any description of how to use it. I've installed a video but there is no help file and I've clicked all over... not a computer novice by any means, either. Anyone give me a hand? I want to cut the last couple seconds off a video.  

21. #  MX3 September 18, 2008 12:21 AM

    very useful, thanks for highlighting.  

22. #  MX3 September 18, 2008 12:24 AM

    @ anonymous
    
    use this free app to compress FLV:
    http://www.cocoonsoftware.com  

23. #  kenny October 14, 2008 6:48 AM

    Hi Ben,
    Im just trying to make a small change on my editing wich is already export in FLV. I need to know if i can use this software whitout AIR... if not can i do it an other way?
    THx
    Kenny  

24. #  mal November 18, 2008 9:38 PM

    Just tried it and am impressed. Would be nice to display the name of the file being processed.
    
    Mal  

25. #  Chunkybob November 19, 2008 6:49 AM

    Hi Craig Pollock here, was having trouble downloading and launching the setup for the rich flv if you have any tips i would appreciate it.  

26. #  DinoFB November 19, 2008 7:19 AM

    After installng it, how do I get it to work? Where's the command line? I must have missed something here.  

27. #  Anonymous December 1, 2008 2:33 AM

    Super tool! Many thanks!  

28. #  mal December 4, 2008 1:59 PM

    I'm running XP on a standard 5 year old PC. I downloaded FLV Editor, launched and used it on the first go. I think those with troubles may need to look into possible PC problems.  

29. #  josh December 30, 2008 11:38 AM

    is there a way to remove audio at just a certain part? i would like that point to be no audio  

30. #  Brad January 29, 2009 2:18 PM

    That is a great tool. Thanks so much!  

31. #  Anonymous February 5, 2009 10:30 AM

    Great tool, has anyone found a way to remove an inside portion of a clip?  

32. #  mal February 5, 2009 10:15 PM

    Last Anon question, I think the only way is to cut off (save) either side of the unwanted part and the stitch the two back together. Bit cumbersome but works OK. Need to watch your audio matching.  

33. #  mal February 5, 2009 10:21 PM

    Cut each side of the unwanted bit. "Export" the bits and then "stitch" them both together. This leaves the unwanted bit out. A little cumbersome but works.  

34. #  Anonymous February 7, 2009 8:11 AM

    MAL, I save the two short clips (default.flv) and (default2.flv) to my desktop but I am unable to Import them to FLV(stitch) to join them. Any suggestions. thanks in advance -  

35. #  Paulo Valadares February 10, 2009 4:59 AM

    That is wonderfull. Congratulations!!!  

36. #  eleezeeum February 13, 2009 12:18 AM

    Found it very useful  

37. #  Ron February 14, 2009 2:09 AM

    Problems on having changed the audio, it slows down the whole video, someone can make it change like the audio  

38. #  Anonymous February 14, 2009 2:10 AM

    Problems on having changed the audio, it) slows down the whole video, someone can make it change like the audio  

39. #  mal February 15, 2009 7:41 PM

    For anonymous Feb 7. I posted but it's not showing so again - "Open" default.flv then "Stitch" default2.flv. System will then start playing the new file.  

40. #  Anonymous February 20, 2009 7:11 AM

    Lifesaver of a tool  

41. #  heymilu March 4, 2009 1:36 PM

    does it allow you to loop an flv file????????  

42. #  Anonymous March 12, 2009 1:31 AM

    flv video editor is a powerful FLV editor which can be used for editing FLV and creating videos. Features include accurate FLV trimming and cropping, adding more than one watermark, merging multiple FLV, creating a project file to edit later, picture sequences output and inserting special effects.  

43. #  Anonymous April 5, 2009 9:43 PM

    Thank you very much for posting something that finally works : ).  

44. #  MPA Media April 6, 2009 10:51 AM

    Benz,
    
    Thank you for the great tool. I have a situation where the flv file generated by Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for a recorded event we did is "Out of Sync".
    
    I'm not sure why this is even an option. The audio plays and the slides don't stop where they did in the live event, they "Autoplay" so the audio does not sync with the screens you see in the video.
    
    Is there a way to re-sync this flv audio / video using your tool?
    
    Thanks,
    Thomas  

45. #  MPA Media April 6, 2009 10:56 AM

    Benz,
    
    Thanks for the great app. I have a .flv file that was generated from our Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro server as a recording of a live web seminar.
    
    The problem is the audio is not in sync with the video slides of the presentation. Our Adobe partner points out some obscure feature that allows the slides to "auto-play".
    
    Even though we didn't auto-play the slides in the live event, the slides in the recording do (auto-play) so the audio is out of sync with the slides.
    
    Is is possible to re-sync these?
    
    Thanks,
    Thomas  

46. #  Anonymous April 14, 2009 10:11 PM

    avidemux supports flv files...  

47. #  Anonymous April 15, 2009 1:20 AM

    FLV Editor Ultimate, with which the end users can edit MP3, FLV encoded with H. 264, Flash 8 (On2 VP6), and Flash 8 with alpha. The product includes timeline to trim FLV/MP3, split FLV/MP3, merge several FLV/MP3 into one, replace audio, save project file for further editing  

48. #  Gracia April 15, 2009 1:26 AM

    Nice article, very helpful. Thanks.  

49. #  Susan Boyle April 15, 2009 6:45 PM

    Great tool. I will share on twitter  

50. #  Anonymous April 15, 2009 6:47 PM

    Edit flv in adobe premiere with a flv importer is also a good choice  

51. #  Anonymous April 19, 2009 11:49 AM

    This is terrific! I have a client who needed some parts of her movie removed and all she had was an .flv file. So, this is perfect.
    
    I think most of us understand that a video should be edited directly from an uncompressed source, but the reality is sometimes that is not possible. And this software solves tis problem beautifully.  

52. #  Aroe April 24, 2009 12:22 AM

    Thanks for the great app Yo! This piece Rocks!! ;)  

53. #  Robert Staddon May 1, 2009 11:25 PM

    Just what I needed! Thanks!  

54. #  Anonymous May 13, 2009 7:04 AM

    Most Excellent, THANKS  

55. #  Anonymous June 5, 2009 9:09 PM

    Hello Benjamin,
    Congradulations on such a great job. I know its good from what I've read in other posts but I haven't quite got it running on my machine. It seems to open the program but when opening a flv file it locks up in the process. I have Vista and that could be the problem in and of itself. Also can you tell me if I can export trimmed clips into individual flv files rather than all clips as one output file? This would be VERy helpful to me because I'm trying to seperate various parts of a presentation. Thanks again for such a great product!  

56. #  Anonymous June 6, 2009 3:55 AM

    I have tried cutting flv files with richflv.
    If I leave the inpoint in 0, it works correctly and I can see the clipped flv but if the inpoint is beyond 0, no matter if it is with keyframes or not, the clipped video shows either nothing or vertical bars.
    Is there something I'm doing wrong?
    
    Thank you  

57. #  yanqui mike July 13, 2009 1:12 PM

    @ Anonymous June 6, 2009 3:55 AM
    
    Did you ever figure that out?
    
    I'm having the same problem.
    
    Mike  

58. #  Anonymous August 19, 2009 6:06 PM

    Thanks Benz. This great. I have a massive amount of FLVs to edit due someone else making promises that i have to keep!
    
    I was freaking out that i would have to import everything into premier and re-edit or at the very least quicktime with perian and i really hate that workflow due to the crappy loading times and the huge quality loss..
    
    Thanks again. Love your work!  

59. #  Rick October 1, 2009 6:39 PM

    I'm having the same problem with editing. If the inpoint is 0, it's fine. Anything after that and there's just a blank spot left on the timeline and nothing in the exported video.  

60. #  bizzybody October 3, 2009 1:56 PM

    I just installed it and tried to open a 384 meg FLV I saved using FLV Recorder. RichFLV hung at 68% loading the video.
    
    Running XP Pro SP3.  

61. #  coachjb2u October 9, 2009 11:06 AM

    Well, I'm a little late to this party, but hopefully someone might be able to help... I couldn't have been more excited when I found out about RichFLV. I have to post videos from live workshops on our internal network for management review. I have maybe 40 videos that another person converted to .flv and they average about 90 minutes each, and the conversion process took several days. The problem is, all the videos have 1 to 4 minutes of dead time before the seminars start. Who would have thought that clipping out the first couple of minutes of a .flv file would be so tough?
    
    I ran into two problems,
    1. there seems to be a limit to the length of the videos RichFLV can convert. (I can work around this by just splitting the clips but I ran into problem # 2)
    2. After editing even very short clips, the audio is garbled and not understandable.
    I'm using an intel dual core MacBook Pro. The files I am trying to edit were created with Sorenson Squeeze, H.263, audio= mpeg layer 3 Mono 41.000 kHz.
    Anyone have any ideas?