How to Convert FLV to Sony Vegas Pro for Editing

It's common for us to download online videos from video sharing sites like YouTube, Vimeo, etc. However, it spins your head a bit when trying to edit those downloaded online videos in Sony Vegas, but only to receive a message "the file has an unsupported format". As is known to all, one of the primary reasons why people opted for Sony Vegas Pro was it supposedly accepts any format, obviously, FLV is an exception. Now the question is how to convert FLV to Sony Vegas supported formats for further editing, the simplest solution is to find an authentic video converter.

Wondershare UniConverter is just the most practical one you can get online. The multi-utility software not only converts FLV to MP4, AVI, MOV and many other formats in a lossless way but provides a complete solution to all video editing-related features that we need. Here is a quick look over these awesome features of UniConverter.

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How to Convert FLV to Sony Vegas Pro Compatible Format

Now, let us see how to convert FLV into supported formats for further editing in Sony Vegas Pro. Download and install Wondershare UniConverter on your PC first, then follow the given steps below to get started.

Step 1 Load FLV file into Wondershare Uniconverter.

At the upper-left corner of UniConverter’s interface, you will see the option of the . Click on it and select the FLV file that is to be converted. Or else, you can also just drop the files at the center of the interface.

Step 2 Choose output as Sony Vegas supported formats.

Now, having completed the first step, it’s time you decide on the output format. In our case, the format should be any one of the supported formats by Sony Vegas Pro, so you must choose accordingly. You can perform this step by clicking the beside Output Format:. If you don’t know the supported formats, simply go Video > MP4 as it is the most popular and accepted file formats across platforms.

Step 3 Convert FLV to Sony Vegas easily.

It’s time to start FLV to MP4 conversion(or any other based on your selection on Step 2). You can initiate it by clicking the Start All in the bottom. When the conversion completes, you can import the converted FLV files to Sony Vegas Pro for further editing.

Note: You can specify the destination folder via the Output: section at the bottom left corner of the interface. And now you can start editing the converted FLV file using Sony Vegas Pro.

Tips on Converting FLV to Sony Vegas

1. Why Sony Vegas Pro Not Support FLV

FLV is a container file format, as its name suggests, contains data that has been encoded using various compression and encoding schemes. Such files are incapable of categorizing themselves as a specific file format and plus that Sony Vegas Pro is unable to associate FLV to a particular file format. Therefore, Sony Vegas Pro couldn't open FLV.

2. What Format Does Sony Vegas Pro Support

Here is a quick list for you to know what formats that Sony Vegas Pro support: MOV, WMV, , AA3, AAF, AIF, ASF, AU, AVC, AVI, BMP, BWF, CDA, DIG, DLX, DPX, DV, EXR, FLAC, GIF, HDP, IVC, JPEG, AVCHD, M2T, M2TS, MVC, Sony MXF (XDCAM and HDCAM SR), MP3, MP4, M4A, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video, OGG, MPO, OMA, Panasonic MXF (DVCPRO, AVC-Intra) PCA, PSD, QT, R3D, PNG, SFA, SND, TIFF, TGA, W64, WAV, VOX, WDP, WMA, XAVC Intra MXF, and XAVC S.

The method defined above is applicable to all the unsupported formats and is not only limited to FLV. So, whenever you come across a file format that is natively not supported by Sony Vegas Pro, simply convert the unsupported file format into a supported file format with Wondershare Video Converte Ultimate.

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