Do you want to convert your favorite YouTube videos to a desired video format before downloading it? If your answer is yes then Clip Converter is a free online help you can try using. It allows you to select and convert YouTube videos into its available video and audio formats before downloading it.

Once you copy paste the YouTube URL to the Media URLbox as shown above and click continue, the website tries to detect media. Once media  is detected the following page is displayed.

As you can see above, there are a variety of video and audio formats you can choose from. Conversion Optionsinclude audio volume, channel, bitrate, video bitrate , aspect ratio as well as video start and end options. Customize the conversion the way you want. However, you can also download straight away without any conversion by clicking Download.

Once you are done, click Startat the bottom left corner to initiate the conversion. Your video will then be converted. As the Conversion successfully completeddialog appears, click Downloadto get the converted video.

If you only want the audio, the tool offers a wide range of formats. Simply select MP3, M4A, AAC, WMA or OGG as the conversion format.  Clip Converter browser addons for Firefox , Chrome and Safari are also available. Go to the browser addon page to download it.

Out of tons of similar alternatives, Clip Converter do not seem to stand out in a unique way. However, the extensive list of supported conversion formats for video as well as audio definitely makes the tool a useful one. Also the bookmarklet that can can be down;loaded from the browser addon page is a helpful aid in case you need a browser shortcut to convert (and download ) videos while watching them. The conversion speed is quite impressive if not the best among the lot. For me, it is definitely worth a try. Enjoy conversion and downloading with Clip Converter.

Do you need to embed a video into your website or blog? Do you want to present your products or services but don’t know how? For those who know programming, adding video to websites and blogs is a piece of cake, but for a programming novice, it’s a challenge. If you want to make a personal website to show you interests or make a business site as a Sohoer, you don’t need to know programming for embedding video in website.

Don’t worry! DVDvideosoft free Video to Flash Converter is the trick. This Video to Flash Converter can convert video to flash in *.flv or *.swf file format. The program works with *.avi, *.ivf, *.div, *.divx, *.ogv, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.mpe, *.mp4, *.m4v, *.wmv, *.asf, *.mov, *.qt, *.ts, *.mts, *.m2t, *.m2ts, *.mod, *.tod, *.3gp2, *.3gpp, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.dvr-ms, *.vro, *.flv, *f4v, *.amv, *.rm, *.rmm, *.rv, *.rmvb, *.mkv video files.

This freeware offers 6 types of flash players (Mini, Classic, Maxi, Multi, New Maxi, New Multi) and 7 Player Colors (Black, Blue, Green, Grey dark, Grey light, Orange, Red) when you set FLV as the output format.

In addition, it has four video quality presets for output to FLV format:

1. Normal Quality FLV (320 x 240, 400 Kbit; MP3, 64 Kbit, 22.05 kHz, Mono)

2. High Quality FLV (480 x 360, 760 Kbit; MP3, 128 Kbit, 44.1kHz, Stereo)

3. High Definition FLV ( 1280 x 720, 2Mbit; MP3, 256 Kbit, 44.1kHz, Stereo)

4. Maximum Definition FLV ( 1280 x 720, 8Mbit; MP3, 256 Kbit, 44.1kHz, Stereo)

If you don’t like the presets, you can customize them yourself. The latest version is V 4.7.24, which has a new feature, cool selectable skins for the program. That’s great.

=== About the Author ===

Sophia has a passion for helping webmasters to add video to website and blog with VideotoFlashConverter Software.

[Windows Only]

There are thousands of great songs on Youtube, and if you’d like to have them as MP3 files, there are plenty of ways to get them. Here are some methods we’ve written about before:

• Download and Convert YouTube Playlist to MP3 With YouTube Playlist Converter
• How to Convert and Download YouTube Videos
• Free Audio Extractor – Convert FLV MP4 to MP3
• Download Youtube Videos As Mp3 files with just 1 Click

Now I’ll tell you about one of the easiest ways to get all the music you want.

[Windows, Linux, Mac]

Late last year, I spotted a deal that I couldn’t turn down. I was able to buy a Sandisk Sansa Fuze 4G player for about $30 USD. When these were first released in 2008, they were over double that price. I already had an iPod Nano, but I wanted video and photos, and the price of the iPod Touch was over my playtime budget.

If you aren’t familiar with the Fuze, here’s some info from Google Products:

Listen, watch and play all day with 24 hours of battery life and room for up to 2000 songs. The Sansa Fuze from SanDisk is your portable music machine with 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB of storage. Watch your favorite video clips on the Sansa Fuze’s 1.9″ color screen. Jam to FM radio with 40 preset stations, play with the built-in voice recorder, and share your photos wherever you go. Choose from five electric colors: blue, red, pink, black or silver. Incredible battery life in a 0.3″ thin device – the Sansa Fuze marks the next wave of music and video players.

In the past few months, I’ve enjoyed using it at work and play, but there are two things that I definitely don’t like about the Fuze. First, they used a proprietary connector, instead of using a mini-USB. Secondly, they force you to convert all your videos to a weird AVI format, which can only be created by their special Sansa Media Converter (Windows only).

There isn’t much that I could do about the connector, but I’ve finally found an excellent alternative to the Sansa converter, called Video4Fuze. It is supported in Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, unlike Sansa’s lame converter. Now converting full length DVDs for use on my Fuze is as simple as creating an AVI file, then converting it with Video4Fuze. If you are a big fan of downloading Youtube video, the Video4Fuze utility also converts FLV and MP4 videos with no problem.

Download Video4Fuze

Here’s a video showing how to use Video4Fuze.

Techie Buzz Rating: 4/5 (Excellent)

[Windows Only]

If you’ve ever downloaded Youtube videos, you typically end up with either FLV or MP4 files. These files will usually open up in a movie player so you can watch them, but what if you simply want to listen to the sound tracks of these videos?   It’s very easy to rip sound tracks of most video files, and I’ve found that Free Audio Extractor is a simple and fast way to do this.

Here’s what the author, Giksoft, says about this free product.

Free Audio Extractor allows you to extract/convert entire or parts of your FLV, MP4, AVI, WMV, ASF, MOV, MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, WAV, MP2 files. Save to Mp3, Wma, Ogg, Flac… try it! it’s easy and it’s free!

To add files for conversion, you need to click the big plus sign and choose one or more files. Then choose the Save as MP3button. There is a pull-down next to the Save button that will allow you to save as WMA, OGG, FLAC or WAV, if you don’t want MP3 files.

Once it starts converting, you’ll find that it’s very fast. It seemed to take less than ten seconds for most 5 to 10 minute videos. Once they’re all done, you can click on My Saved filesto find all of the MP3s that you’ve just created.

Download Giksoft’s Free Audio Extractor

Techie Buzz Verdict:

The Giksoft team has wisely chosen to give us a product that does a single job and does it extremely well. There may be larger programs that do this, but generally, you’ll have way too many options and a bit of a learning curve before you get it right. Free Audio Extractor helps you get it right, the first time and every time.

Techie Buzz Rating: 4/5 (Excellent)

[Windows only]

Last week, my friend Rick popped into Google Chat with a question.

Rick: Do you have a moment Clif ?

me: Yes

Rick: Perhaps you can help … I have on my external hard drive, a movie that is in FLV format.

me: Ok

Rick: I am looking for a freeware that can transfer it to a DVD, so that I can play in player. Any ideas on a program?

me: No, not really. I rarely burn DVDs. I’d probably Google for ideas. “how to burn FLV to DVD”

Rick: LOL, for once you can’t help me. That is ok.

me: Thanks for asking. Let me know how it turns out.

A few days later, Rick wrote me an email.

Hello Clif, Well I thought I’d take a moment to tell you how I made out. After using Google, installing and uninstalling several programs (all free of course), I was about to give up when a friend stopped over and said … try “Total Video2DVD” .   It worked out fantastic.   It was as easy as a drag and drop. It does have a small water mark on screen unless you register,   Price $35.95.     But I’m able to deal with the small on-screen water mark.

Happy Holidays,     Rick Campbell

I normally don’t post shareware, but it sounds like the free version is usable. Below is a snapshot of the user interface of Total Video2DVD, and a brief description.

Total Video2Dvd (Old name E.M. AVI to DVD) is an easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software which includes a powerful video converter engine for DVD that lets you do more with your standard or High-Definition digital media.   It creates standard DVD discs with studio-quality personalized menus.

In case you’re curious, there’s also a video showing how it works.

Download Total Video2DVD

What free software do you need? Let me know and I’ll give you a recommendation.

[Windows Only] Currently there are many different ways to convert one video format to another. You can make use of several video conversion services online. If you’d like to convert video on your PC using software, we’ve written about a few, such as Free Video And Audio Converter and Quick Media Converter.

Today, I tried a converter called ‘Any Video Converter‘, and I’ll show you a some of the features.

Any Video Converter lets you convert between a large number of video formats such as AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPG, M2TS, MTS, RM, RMVB, QT, and WMV. You can manually adjust the settings for each format or use several presets. The program can also trim and crop portions of video and merge multiple video files. Other features include batch conversion, YouTube downloads, video snapshots and more.

I was the most interested in downloading YouTube videos and converting them to files for Windows Media Player. Most YouTube downloaders or rippers will give you FLV or MP4 formats and Windows Media Player is not always able to play them.

First I went to YouTube and copied the URL of a video I wanted. Then I fired up ‘Any Video Converter’ and clicked on the YouTube icon to paste in the address. I also used the pull down menu at the top right to select the WMV profile.

Once I had the YouTube URL listed, I clicked the “Convert” button and the program automatically started downloading and converting the video from YouTube. I ended up with the original MP4 and a new WMV file in the “My Documents/Any Video Converter” folder on my PC. It works fast and does a good job.

Another feature I liked was the ability to take snapshots of a video using the video preview area of ‘Any Video Converter’. All you have to do is start the video playback and click the snapshot button (circled below).

After you are done clicking a few snapshots, you’ll find the PNG image files in the Snapshot folder under “My Documents/Any Video Converter”.

Here’s a snapshot I took of a video named “Kissing Monkeys”. You’d think only a mother could love a face like that. Don’t be so quick to judge … check the video link below.

Click to see the video

Those are the only features I’ve tried so far, but based on that, I’m guessing everything works as advertised. However, this is a free version of a commercial product, and the author does pop up an occasional recommendation to buy the paid version. That’s the only thing I didn’t like very much.

Download ‘Any Video Converter’

Techie Buzz Verdict:
I found ‘Any Video Converter’ to be useful, flexible and unique in some ways. If you need to convert video formats, you’ll find it’s easy to use and does a good job.

Techie Buzz Rating: 3/5 (Good)

Sometime back we had told you, how to extract frames from GIF images. An update to the tool is available for the software. In addition to that, you can also download a new tool which allows you to convert movies to GIF Animations.

The Movie to Animated GIF Converter allows users to convert a portion or the entire movie to a GIF animation. Supported formats include AVI, MPEG and WMV.

Both downloads are available at Evan’s Freeware.

Looking to convert AVI files to Flash videos (FLV)? The freeware and open source AVI to FLV converter can come in pretty handy.

FLV Converter will take a AVI file and convert it to the FLV format. In addition to that, it can also extract a specific frame from the video, along with allowing you to customize the FLV video by adding your own logo to it. Want more media tools? Don’t forget to checkout the Ultimate list of Tools to manage your digital life.

Download Free FLV Converter