My friends and I are making a movie for college competition. Once we finished with our work on video camera we copied those clips to our hard disc, it's in VOB files. We are planning to split it and upload to YouTube, hence we need to convert it from VOB format to FLV format. At first, I thought it would be a complicated process, but to my surprise, when I used the trail version of Aneesoft Video Converter Pro, recommended by my friends, everything just goes so easily! I can use this software to trim,crop,join videos, even add a logo to my video! Thanks to this wonderful programs, my friends and I achieved great success in this competition. So here I want to really give some feedback to Aneesoft Video Converter Pro and to let more people know about it!
This software is a free trial application that accomplishes converter almost every popular video formats to play on almost any portable device quickly and easily. Considering you might be a novice of computer as I was, let me show you how to convert VOB files to FLV format step by step.
Things you’ll need
1. Aneesoft Video Converter Pro (Free for download trial version)
2. VOB video files
Step 1: Download & install Aneesoft Video Converter Pro
We’ll be using the very nice video converter software called Aneesoft Video Converter Pro for converting VOB to FLV format, head over here and download the free trial version. Next step is to install the program.
Step 2: Run Video Converter Pro and add VOB video files
Now run Aneesoft Video Converter Pro and click the big button "Add File" to add VOB video files on your computer, you may add as many videos as you want to convert to flv videos. Only the titles you checked will be converted. So if there're some videos you don't want to convert, you need to uncheck them or 'Delete' them from the right-click menu. 'Clear' in the right-click menu means remove all titles in the list.
Step 3: Edit VOB videos: crop, trim, add effects, add watermark
Wanna edit your videos to make it more personalized? You may add a watermark in Aneesoft Video Converter Pro. Just select the title you'd like to add watermark, then click the button 'Edit' to launch video editing window. If you want to crop video or add some special effects, click the first two tabs. You're able to add a text watermark or an image watermark (you may call it logo) on the output video. Adjust the 'Transparency' to make the watermark look better.
Step 4: Merge some separate VOB videos to 1 single FLV file
Click on the video titles you'd like to merge to 1 single file, then click 'Merge' button and uncheck the former separate VOB video files if you just need the single merged video file. Here 'click on the video titles' is not just check the options, you need to click them to make them highlight. You may see the image below to have an idea.
Step 5: Change the output settings to convert videos with best quality
Choose the most suitable FLV Profile as you want. Besides to FLV format, there are almost all common video formats available for you to choose to convert. You may convert VOB videos to different video formats for video editing or playback on your mobile devices, such as iPod, iPhone, PSP, cellphone, etc. Remember that the output file size mostly depends on the Bitrate you set. Larger Bitrate, larger file size. Actually video with bitrate as 768 is acceptable for watching.
Step 6: Start converting VOB to FLV videos
Now you may click the big button "Start" to begin converting VOB videos to FLV videos. Once the convert is complete, Aneesoft Video Converter Pro will place a new version of your FLV video. Double-click the new FLV file and play it to make sure it looks as you expect.
