How to make your own MTV free and without cameras, recorders?

You should say that it is a wonderful thing to watch MTVs. You can enjoy the wonderful music together with touching stories. But, have you ever thought that some day you can make an MTV by yourself without charge and other expensive devices? Now you can make it with some free but powerful programs, a downloader and an editor.

Let’s see what you should have for the MTV.

• Video materials for the story or display.
• Background music.

You can download get them all from YouTube, MySpace or other video-sharing sites. Or if you have some mp3 audio, you can also make good use of it now.

How to download FLV from YouTube, MySpace or other video-sharing sites?

It is easy and free. You can just download the free Moyea YouTube FLV Downloader.

• Enable the capture function, and click in the page where the video is playing.
• The program will capture the FLV URL automatically.
• And then you can right click on the URL and select download. The FLV will be downloaded in seconds.

You can download multiple FLV files at one time. Once task completed, you can find the FLV in Movie or Music in Library section.

How to edit the FLV and make my MTV?

You need a free FLV editor which is also cool, FLV Editor Lite Beta. Although it is a beta version, you can’t deny it is quite stable. You can easily edit the FLV files on its Timeline.

• Import the downloaded FLV files. You can click the button to import multiple FLV files.

The FLV files will be placed on Resource List. You can double click to preview. To edit FLV, you must drag the right file to Timeline. Here I got several nice FLV clips.

• Rip FLV video and audio. Since we are making an MTV, we need the original audios deleted. You can select an FLV clip and click the Unlink button. And then, select the audio or video and click “X” to delete.

• Edit the clips and get the desired effect.
• Now you edit the video first. Just drag the pointer (current-time indicator) to the exact time point and click the Scissor button to cut it into pieces.
• And then you can drag the clips to rearrange the order.
• Drag the audio to the right place under the video clips. Click the play button on Preview Pane, you can real-time preview the effect.

Please make sure the button is enabled, so that you can attach one clip exactly to the edge of another clip. Besides, the FLV video clips should be attached tightly, or there will be black frames in the video interval.

You can also import MP3 files as background music.

• Export your FLV MTV.

Once you get the desired effect, you can export the files by selecting Export> FLV. Name the MTV in Export file name and click Start. The FLV will be exported in seconds. If you’d like to convert the FLV into other video format for playback on Windows Media Player, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, cell phone, or other portable devices, you can check Add FLV to Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2. The converter will be launched with the file in list. If you haven’t got the program installed, you will be directed to the website for free download. You can use the free trial first. Or you can convert it free with www.convertdirect.com. But it’s not as fast as the converter.

And then you get the DIY MTV. You needn’t pay a penny for that. There will be no quality loss of the FLV since it does not recode the original FLV. Try it now and make yourself an expert of MTV making.