How to Create Flash Video on PC? [FLV Recorder Tutorial]

Gary Henderson Updated on May 8 , 2024 Tag: Online Media

You cannot ignore the FLV recorder if you want to create FLV videos. Producing FLV videos with screen recording software is an effective way. Third-party screen recorders are nearly all equipped with the function to produce videos in FLV format. So the only difficult task turns out to be the choice of the right recorder. Premium FLV recorder not only records your screen but also provides you with multiple features to make the process easier and decorate your videos. In this article, you will find the way to create flash videos with an FLV recorder on a PC.

Cover of FLV Recorder

Today’s introduction of an FLV recorder is powerful software, with its help you can save videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion. However, FLV files can be viewed on sites like YouTube, but once these files are downloaded they cannot be opened by common players such as Windows Media Player. So you may need a VLC media player to replay your FLV videos.

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What Is an FLV File?

Flash is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer.
This format is supported in Adobe Flash Player and developed by Adobe Systems. Users of the FLV format include Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, MetaCafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.
FLV has been long gone acknowledged as one of the standard video formats on the Internet (along with MP4, and AVI). Nowadays, you can find traces of them on YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, and other major video-portal websites.
BTW, Flash Video is watchable on most operating systems via the Adobe Flash Player and web browser plugin. But there are two situations where FLV won’t work with:

1. The first circumstance is that very occasionally, the downloaded FLV videos cannot be opened by common media players such as Windows Media Player.

2. The second situation is that Apple’s iOS devices, along with almost all other mobile devices, do not support the Flash Player plugin and so require other delivery methods such as those provided by the Adobe Flash Media Server.

How to Create FLV Files with FLV Recorder on Windows?

Third-party screen recorder – RecMaster allows users to make FLV videos as well as record FLV videos from the Internet. It is uncluttered, intuitive and easy-to-use. Here are the step-by-step instructions for users to produce FLV videos with RecMaster. And some useful features are appended at the end of the passage. Let’s get straight to this tutorial.

1. Hit the buttons below to download RecMaster.

Make sure your PC’s operating system matches with the OS requirements of RecMaster.

2. To create videos in FLV format, 6 modes could be helpful.

Game Mode, Full-Screen Mode, and Custom-Area Mode. All allow you to choose FLV as the target video format before the recording starts.

RecMaster’s Full-Screen Mode

3. Tweak the settings

Recording mode settings

After choosing a recording mode, you can set whether to record the system sound, your voice, or your face on the next interface.

RecMaster’s Full-Screen Mode Settings

Format and quality settings

To set it to record in FLV format, you can navigate to Menu>> Settings>> File>> Video and choose “flv” from the Video Format drop-down menu.

In Video formats, besides FLV, MP4 is the most used format on the Internet, and AVI is wildly used in the Internet world, for its ability to deliver exceptionally high-quality audio fidelity.

FLV video format settings

Next, you can navigate to Video and set the video quality. Please note that the default and recommended settings provide the best match for the file size and output quality. Please don’t change it unless you are familiar with the video parameters.

If you forgot the original settings, please set it according to the image below.

This part is crucial, the options you configure before recording will directly influence the quality of your videos.

Now let’s check how to make the settings in their best conditions.

Frame Rate determines the fluency of your video, 30 FPS should suffice all the common recording demands like record YouTube live streams, recording online meetings like BlueJeans meetings, etc.
The highest FPS that RecMaster can offer is 60 FPS, which is a parameter tailored for game recording, you can use it to record games on consoles, e.g. Wii U games and Switch Games. PC games are supported too, LOL, OSU!, PUBG, and so on.

VFR stands for Variable Frame Rate which means that it will drop useless frames if the part of the video is static. It helps reduce the file size without reducing the smoothness and quality.

Video quality – Choose ‘Original’ since it is the highest video quality.

Other settings

Other than the video parameters, you can also set whether to show the cursor effects and keystrokes, and whether to use hotkeys to control RecMaster without the main window. You can even add image/text/time stamp watermarks to the video and set RecMaster to start at the computer boot.

RecMaster’s Setting Panel

In addition, you can set RecMaster to start recording at the computer start or a scheduled time, and save files in segments during the recording. All can be set in Settings>> Auto Recording.

4. Record the FLV videos with the FLV Recorder

To start the recording, you can either press on the REC button or Alt+1. In the process of recording, you can add annotation tools to your FLV videos to highlight them.

5. Stop the FLV recording

To stop the recording, you can press the stop button or Alt+2. After that, you can go to the Recording list to manage your footage. You can rename them, check their locations, merge, upload, and most importantly, edit them.

Edit the FLV video with the FLV Recorder

Editor’s Final Words

This passage introduces a brilliant FLV recorder – RecMaster. This software is easy to come by, simple to operate, and makes FLV recording/FLV videos like a breeze of wind.