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Giveaway of the day — Video Encoder for Adobe Flash 2.5

Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash is a fast and powerful Flash encoder.
$ 45.00 EXPIRED
User rating: 639 61 comments

Video Encoder for Adobe Flash 2.5 was available as a giveaway on March 31, 2009!

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Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash can fast convert your video to Flash files (SWF and FLV) with excellent performance, and speed up your video hosting and sharing business over the Internet. This professional Flash video encoder supports almost all popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, MOV etc. It is quite an easy-to-use but powerful video to Flash converter tool. Take just simple steps to convert video to Flash Video files (FLV) with high quality.

System Requirements:

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Publisher:

SothinkMedia

Homepage:

http://www.sothink.com/product/flashvideoencoder/index.htm

File Size:

13.5 MB

Price:

$ 45.00

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#61

Hi,

Thanks for the information,just found this post my technorati news feed section! I was searching for this since past 3 months and i am glad to see it here. Thanking you much

Martin

Reply   |   Comment by Water ionizer  –  14 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#60

Help me with this one. how can you remove the history you encode? tnx

Reply   |   Comment by bong  –  14 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#59

This is a great program even though it may be a tad dated. Thanks GOTD.

To # 48 Unistall the trial version and reinstall this permanet version.

Reply   |   Comment by GaryC  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#58

Wow...this is a really great product ! I needed something like this where I can embed Flash videos on my website. THANKS !!!

Reply   |   Comment by Sam Meilach  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#57

don't bother. download "format Factory" instead. http://www.formatoz.com/download.html

it's much better than this Sothink program and its free. period. no spyware, adware, etc.
i was skeptical too at first, but trust me. you WON'T be disappointed.

(this is mainly for people who might miss this giveaway

Reply   |   Comment by real-live-advertisement  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)
#56

It's obvious that SoThink is a big hit with GOAD users, and for good reason! They are good!

Even though I have ConvertVid from an offer here a few weeks back, I grabbed this one too.

It installed and activated fine, runs fine and works well. I haven't had time to compare this with ConvertVid yet, so I'm not sure which one I'll keep and use. I'm thinking it will most likely be this that stays.

One issue I'd like to see corrected with the installer.

When you install any SoThink app you get taken to the site under the false impression that it's already registered/activated, when in fact you do need to put the registration info in when you launch for the first time.

Hey SoThink, any chance of you offering your SWF Quicker and your SWF easy here?

For those commenting about the 'limited time offer'. I'm thinking that must mean the 24 hour period it's offered here on GOTD?

Thumbs up! Kudos to GOTD for getting this and to SoThink for creating good applications.

Reply   |   Comment by Tina  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#55

Tried several times but it keeps saying 30 days trial. I don't consider a 30 day trial to be 'free'. Not much of a give away of the day in my opinion.

Reply   |   Comment by David  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#54

It's nice to see another Sothink product offered on GAOTD.
This encoder is really useful when you need to host a video on your website.
Thanks GAOTD
@7: The developer of Sothink programs is SourceTec Software Co. Ltd. Sothink is just a trade mark.

Reply   |   Comment by DDS  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#53

Brilliant!!!! changed a 45megbyte video to 3.4 Megabytes and sent it by email works really well great software - thanks gaotd

Reply   |   Comment by Alwyn  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-1)
#52

Little problem with the .rm videos I converted: no sound!
(yes, I checked the "enable audio" box.
Also when the video plays it shows up as Flash Player 6 (the current one is 10!)

Reply   |   Comment by Bill  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
#51

I get "so think video encoder has encountered a problem
and needs to close" .Got this with the last Sothink download
too. I saw a couple other mentions of this.
Any suggestions? I have winxp.
Cheers.

Reply   |   Comment by Peter sert  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)
#50

#40 Bubba_in_NV said...
I do not recommend and AVS stuff to anyone anymore.

Neither do I but for a different reason.

AVS Video Converter uses FFmpeg (a free software) in violation of ffmpeg's license terms.

http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/shame.html

Reply   |   Comment by Kickapoodle  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+1)
#49

I've downloaded it twice and installed it 6 times, but every time I try to open it I get the following Microsoft message:

Video Encoder for Adobe Flash has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

With the usual buttons ,...Debug, Send Error report, Don't send.

I've sent, not sent, and tried the debug buttom to no avail.

I see that most other comments are possitive about the company and the software. Why am I having trouble? Help please.

Thanks, P.B.

Reply   |   Comment by Patrick Bowler  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)
#48

The chief advantage of Flash video, is that it's easy to get up on a web page, & the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash does make it easy -- besides a wizard interface, it has the option of giving you the html to include on your web page. Please Note: If you're not interested in putting your video on a web page, the Flash video format is not for you -- almost every other format is more efficient, most look better, & unless you include a Flash player, are less hassle for your viewers to play.

To accept different video formats as input, the Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash includes several video filters (mostly open-source from Gabest). Since these are somewhat common, there is a chance (though slight) that installation might break existing video software you have installed -- many of the video conversion programs featured on GOTD rename common files to prevent just this sort of thing from happening. Sothink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash also includes ffdshow -- [http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffdshow] for latest version & detailed info/ratings. Also designed for decoding video (in this case used to *understand* video for input), ffdshow can both conflict with other video software, and take over decoding/playback from software you already have installed. Bottom line: it might be useful to visit the wiki [http://www.ffdshow.info/] &/or backup your system before installing.

For alternatives, Adobe & on2 [http://www.on2.com/] have the only 2 official encoders AFAIK, but more and more conversion programs now offer un-official support for this format -- go to videohelp.com -> tools -> searching on flv = 35 hits for starters.

Reply   |   Comment by mike  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+6)
#47

I had a trial version of this on my computer and it's installed a cookie or something that won't let me install this one.

Does anyone know how to clean-out the old install completely?

Reply   |   Comment by loren  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)
#46

Thank you GAOTD,this is a good video encoder for flash/flv and works ok.
There is another,even better, freeware called Moyea Video4Web Converter.
I am using this to make best flv videos for uploading to web.
see: http://www.moyeamedia.com/video-to-flash/
We can also use this to convert several video-formats to flv and merge
them(if you so require)to a single large video.

Reply   |   Comment by cosmos  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-6)
#45

Just on time since I have been ooking for this type of software to converter. Thanks

Reply   |   Comment by ToonChooi  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-6)
#44

Sure, there are a lot of similar freeware programs out there, and I gave them a try before buying this one (several months ago). Why? Because it actually works, and does what I need. There a lot of settings. You have control over bitrate, which has a ton to do with final quality--but the higher it is, the bigger the file. The control bar really is just that. The others have the usual "play" , "pause", etc. etc., but what I like the best about this one, is the capability to grab the slider and move to any frame you want--or go back and forth with the image real quick just because you can and it looks cool. Being able to go frame by frame is great. The control bar itself comes with a good variety of styles. I use it on my weather site for the time lapses. The .AVI the cams put out are around 12mb. This compresses them to about 4mb, with good enough video quality. Flash files take a few seconds to load, but once they do, this encoder makes for a smooth show. It's installed on XP 64.

Reply   |   Comment by magejubi  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)
#43

#29 All I did was uninstall IE 7 from the control panel. It did not remove the IE icon from my task-bar. When I clicked on the icon, IE 7 launched. I cant explain why I didnt have to reinstall IE 7 unless there was an automatic backup. You can download IE 7 optimized for Google at: http://www.google.com/toolbar/ie7/

Reply   |   Comment by Ivan  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-10)
#42

Below is an example I've encoded from a 768Kbps Windows Media source file. It did a very nice job considering the source was already a low bitrate file. Very easy to use, and worked as advertised.

Flash video example


Thanks guys!

Reply   |   Comment by Joe  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)
#41

#33- Stan,
Thank you very very much. Ah, I couldn't get my real player to download videos on IE8. But it did work perfectly with IE7.
The sothink web video downloader however. works with IE8.

Reply   |   Comment by yyuosuff  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-6)
#40

#18 said...
There is similar software here.>>

avs4you.com/AVS-Video-to-Flash

See also this link and the if you REGISTER FOR LIFE you can get lots more software. :-) >>

“avs4you.com/Register”

Okay I know it cost US$39 for a year or US59 for UNLIMITED downloads but then you can get all the rest of their software at no extra cost!!
___________________________________

I have all of the AVS video software suites and have used them for several years. Most of them are just OK, not great, lots of problems converting from different formats, especially anything TO flv. They have not upgraded any older software in over a year but have come out with new versions. I had purchased the unlimited upgrades to AVS Video editor, but guess what, if I want the new version I have to buy it now. I do not recommend and AVS stuff to anyone anymore. There are far too many free and better paid alternatives to their nonsense.

And before someone jumps in and says to use SUPER. In my opinion, SUPER is not so SUPER.

Even though I do not need todays GAOTD it is still a good catch.

Reply   |   Comment by Bubba_in_NV  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)
#39

#24 JohnO: Yes, the W7 Beta expires then, but the RC comes out in June and will be good for a year according to a MS document accidentally let out by TechNet this past week, and they will not limit the number of RC copies available also according to this unimpeachable source. But I do not know if you can "upgrade" from the beta to the RC (or later on from the RC to the RTM) of W7, and thereby save any apps you have from GAOTD

Reply   |   Comment by windowsexplorer  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-10)
#38

To cowabunga: which tool did you use to _record_ your video tutorial? (not the conversion tool but the window grabbing tool)

thanks!

Reply   |   Comment by G  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-11)
#37

I have to note that they not only do not support .mkv, but do not allow any other codec packs other than Windows... thumbs down>

Reply   |   Comment by Lou  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-10)
#36

Good program. Can it add watermarks to videos?

Reply   |   Comment by Koko  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-15)
#35

# 22
I was testing W7 until I found out they will be giving out ONLY 300 copies ( 1% of testers) when released & the testing copy will stop working. So I went back to tried & true XP pro sp3.
Jim W.

Reply   |   Comment by Jim W.  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-10)
#34

This tool is good but it’s obsolete: it only encodes to H.263 video/mp3 audio, like youtube did in the begining. These days youtube and other sites are using H.264 video/AAC audio since they can achieve higher quality at the same bitrate.

Guide on how to create high quality FLV files for free:
http://forum.videohelp.com/topic355179.html

Reply   |   Comment by George  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-10)
#33

#29 - You have to UNINSTALL IE8 and fully re-install IE7.

To my surprise, it kept my favorites from 7 to 8 then back at 7....

Reply   |   Comment by Stan  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-5)
#32

One of the best programs on GOTD, i coverted a 100MB file in 1-2 minutes! Not only is it a converter, but a fast one too! Must download!

Reply   |   Comment by Uncle Reed  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)
#31

Ref:28, Sorry, read #27 for #18 Ivan.

Reply   |   Comment by yyuosuff  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-14)
#30

Great. I was just thinking that I need one of these converters. Will it shrink down a Camtasia produced video. I recorded a few the other day and they were Huge.

Reply   |   Comment by Ralph  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-11)
#29

#18 Ivan-
How do you do the roll back? I, too am on IE8 but can't find my way back.

Reply   |   Comment by yyuosuff  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-12)
#28

Thanks for the warning re: windows 7 expiring. And to Ivan (#27)--we are talking about operating systems, not browsers. I'm running the beta test of Windows 7, which really should be an update to Vista rather than a 'new operating system' and as a result really should be distributed free to all Vista users, because it is not fair to charge for a product that has bugs and then charge again to 'upgrade' it to a version that actually works. But that is a bit off topic I fear.
The reason I am posting again is to report the result of my conversion. Turns out the movie was about 2:45 long and the conversion took about 1:45. The size was picked based on the original movie, and everything worked well--except that the soundtrack is just a little bit skewed. This is a common problem when converting between formats but it is an exceptionally irritating one.
Bottom line: nice program, and I will probably keep it, but there are some problems. Thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by Chuck Gregory  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+11)
#27

@24. I doubt that IE7 will stop working. The company I work for, which has thousands of computers around the world, runs XP Pro and IE6.
FWIW, I uninstalled IE8 from my home computers the day I installed it and rolled back to IE7. IE8 wont work with a web application I need.

Reply   |   Comment by Ivan  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-8)
#26

Anyone know how this compares to the Flash Encoder CS3 tool that comes with Adobe Flash CS3? Looks about the same size and is very similar.

Reply   |   Comment by Guy  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)
#25

Sorry I meant @22 to Chuck Gregory.

Reply   |   Comment by JohnO  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-9)
#24

@21 WINDOWS 7 expires on 1st August,2009.
You might not be able to use this software after that.
I'm not sure if WINDOWS 7 will stop updatng or STOP working altogether after that date.

Try to also install it on an XP or a VISTA system or otherversion of WINDOWS if you intend to keep this software.

Reply   |   Comment by JohnO  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-4)
#23

Todays software registered without a hitch on VISTA ULTIMATE 32 bit on my laptop too. Thanks giveawayoftheday.com :-)

Tip: Backup your REGISTRY files and PROGRAM FILES folder if you intend to keep this software ( or simply backup your entire hard-drive ).

Reply   |   Comment by JohnO  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-8)
#22

This installed just fine on Windows 7, 64 bit. I'm trying a pretty long conversion just to see It says it will take about an hour and a half, which is pretty close to the length of the movie. I'll be doing some other things at the same time so it will be a fair test.

Reply   |   Comment by Chuck Gregory  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)
#21

The Good
* Simple, straightforward, and easy to use.
* Supports almost all video formats as inputs.
* You can crop and trim your video before converting.
* Full control over audio/video settings of output video.
* Can generate a thumbnail and/or video-embedded HTML file for each output video.
* Can embed video controls for SWF videos.
* Very helpful "Help" section.

The Bad
* No batch processing.
* Does not take FLV or SWF videos as input.
* Noticeable lag after loading a video and after you "Finish" at the end.

Free Alternatives
FormatFactory

For final verdict, full review, and recommendations please click here.

Reply   |   Comment by Ashraf  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+27)
#20

Is it possible to convert the videos vice versa? I.e. FLV to AVI?

Thanks.

Reply   |   Comment by Stefanos Hadjisoteriou  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-9)
#19

Smooth install on XP SP3, runs great, tested it with an .avi that I got (very surprisingly) poor results using Format Factory to create a .flv video of. It automatically, after a few steps with a low learning curve, converted it to .flv, .swf, and .html and created a .jpg thumbnail and saved them all in the source folder. The quality on all of them was excellent. It doesn't get any easier then this program. Two thumbs up, and a huge thank you to SourceTec/SoThink and GOTD!!!

Reply   |   Comment by Dan  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+13)
#18

Hi ALL,

Don't foret to read the README.txt file!!

There is similar software here.>>

avs4you.com/AVS-Video-to-Flash

See also this link and the if you REGISTER FOR LIFE you can get lots more software. :-) >>

"avs4you.com/Register"

Okay I know it cost US$39 for a year or US59 for UNLIMITED downloads but then you can get all the rest of their software at no extra cost!!

Reply   |   Comment by JohnO  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-32)
#17

#9 Gio,

Thanks for pointing that out. However it is worth noting that a .MP4 container is used for the H264 videos in your method; to get it into the .FLV container offered by Video Encoder you need to use ffmpeg (although Flash Player can play .MP4 also so unless you have a specific need for .FLV you don't need to mess with ffmpeg). I think. This video encoding stuff gives me headaches.

Reply   |   Comment by Ashraf  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+9)
#16

to 7 windowsexplorer
Sothink is a trademark of SourceTec Software Co., LTD.
so Sothink $ SourceTec is belongs to the same company

Reply   |   Comment by michael  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)
#15

This is comparable to similar apps, easy to use, a fair number of options. Instead of clicking the output links, you can right-click to open the output folder. As with all multimedia apps, it has the potential to mess up some of your codecs/filters; I noticed some changes. Mostly, it uses the rather old ffdshow. It's not clear whether the installer has brains enough to check for some codecs, I skipped some but it said it was installing one I already had, but it didn't. Also includes the optional Sothink FLV Player, same version as the previous SourceTec Sothink giveaways. See #9, Gio, for several other freeware converters with more output options.

Some FYI information regarding finding recently modified items for those using Windows Search 4 and IE8 (I'm using Vista, but some of this may be applicable to XP). The Vista Start Menu shows Recent Items. Like everything else on the Start Menu, you can right-click and Open or Explore for a larger, sortable list. The IE8 History shows not only URLs, but modified local files, even if they weren't accessed via IE8. These will open in IE8 if it handles them, otherwise in their default app. Protected Mode apparently must be off in the Local Intranet Security Zone, which is the default. From Vista Explorer you have access to several types of Recent-item Searches. What I frequently find most useful is the Indexed Locations Search; Explorer must be set to display hidden files and folders. As with most Explorer views, this can be sorted by date. As with all things Microsoft, what does and does not show up in the various lists can be unexpected (and shortcuts may no longer be valid), and of course only things which have been indexed show up in indexed lists.

Reply   |   Comment by Fubar  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+31)
#14

I highly recommend this program i have used it since version 2.3.
Here is a video example of a video encoded in this program. notice i was able to match the colors perfectly with my site.
http://cncmaps.com/index.php?&showtopic=3055

Reply   |   Comment by Cowabunga  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+15)
#13

Any program made by Sothink is a keeper. Installed flawlesly and works great. Thanks GAOTD and Sothink

Reply   |   Comment by glen  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-5)
#12

Crashed during installation on XP Pro. RegSvr32 failed. Also had some other problems beyond that. Appeared to rollback successfully when I had to eventually abort the installation, but i don't trust it enough to try to install it on another machine.

Reply   |   Comment by chromecity  –  15 years ago  –  Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-7)
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