.FLV to .MOV How to?

Hello to the collective "Think Tank"

Background info:

Spent many hours collecting YouTube videos of interest on to my harddrive.

The website I use to accomplish this is here:

http://keepvid.com/

Software solution:

TubeSock
[stinkbot.com]

TubeSock works, but after using the DEMO for a week end, decided that it was too slow for my taste, and after assuming that I had succesfully downloaded hundreds of videos, realized that NOTHING had been saved to my harddrive, so off it went. Maybe you will have better luck?

So, using KeepVid, I was able to "Save As" .FLV movies (which is what YouTube videos are natively, I believe)
Now I have all these great .FLV videos and the only thing that will read them is VLC.

If VLC is not in your toolbag, immediately go here and download it, I don;t know what I'd do without it.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

So VLC can read, but will not export.
Question: Is there any app that is known that will export a .flv file to a .mov?

(I was hoping that FCP would do it so I could use the Batch Export feature and leave it over night)

Thanks in advance, and I hope you found the above links useful.
Treatment

Any

I use VisualHub to export to FCP.

[www.techspansion.com]

Highly recommend it.

Also, give the firefox extension VideoDownloader a look.

[addons.mozilla.org]

Hi Encision

I will check those out immediately!!


In the meantime, I found a tiny little Freeware app that will create .mp4 videos, and also will do H264 (although 4 X slower, and quality is arguable)

ON My machine, it did a 2.7MB .flv video in 2 minutes, and the same video in 9 minutes for H264

Check it out
www.isquint.org

Try "Perian". It is a Quicktime Component, so once installed, Quicktime/Compressor can play FLV files easily, and you have the ease of conversion to any QT format via Compressor presets. And it will scream with a little Qmaster Cluster rendering it out for you.

Michael
Pixel Dust Digital Media

I've been having spotty results with KepVid...Are there any other recommended programs to save .flv files? A google search turned up a lot of sketchy looking results...

Had a similar problem a while ago. My flash videos had interactive elements incorporated (database queries etc.), which rendered most of the programs mentioned here useless.

My solution; software called Snapz Pro. You can?t do batch processing but it will convert even the most complicated .flv and .swf files to .mov?s

In reply to [www.lafcpug.org]

anthem Wrote:
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> I've been having spotty results with KepVid...Are
> there any other recommended programs to save .flv
> files? A google search turned up a lot of sketchy
> looking results...

As was said earlier in the thread, Visual Hub. It's a swiss army knife for video conversion and it is inexpensive.