Posted: 5/21/2011 4:03 PM
Post subject: Help converting Flash animation to avi/mpg?
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GeminiSaint
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Joined: 3/31/2005
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Location: Argentina
I want to upload a couple Flash animations to YouTube. I'm guessing first I have to convert the .swf file to .avi, or .mpg, or something like that. What would the best way to go about doing that be?
Posted: 5/21/2011 4:14 PM
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henke37
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It is a lot harder than it is supposed to be. You see, swf files are interactive and at the very least scriptable. You need to run the file in the flash player and record that. If you made the swf file yourself it is rather easy, just temporarily publish it as an AIR application and draw each frame to a BitmapData, encode that as a sequence of png files and import in your favorite video encoder. You can't get the audio this way, but at least it wont skip a single frame. If you didn't make the swf file you could try one of those automated swf to video applications, but I don't trust them since they never make good of their promise not to skip frames. On the plus side, they usually support recording the audio.
Posted: 5/21/2011 6:15 PM
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Dada
Joined: 11/22/2004
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Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The later Adobe Flash versions have the capability to record AVI files complete with sound and synced audio. You should try that first. Note that it detects the length of the movie to record from the amount of frames in the timeline * the FPS. So if your movie has only one frame in the main timeline (very common) you should manually set the duration. If that doesn't work (it's not perfect by far), I recommend using a screen capture program. For Windows there's Camtasia Studio and for Mac there's ScreenFlow.
Posted: 5/22/2011 10:21 PM
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GeminiSaint
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Location: Argentina
1) Yes, I made the Flash videos I want to upload to YouTube. 2) The version of Flash I have is Macromedia Flash MX. 3) My comp's specs are somewhat on the modest side (Windows XP, 1.2 GHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, and around 10 GB of free space on my hard drive). 4) I have zero experience making videos, and no video making software at all. So yeah. The more automated the process, the better, and yes, it should include audio. What do you guys suggest?
Posted: 5/23/2011 10:29 AM
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arflech
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If there were an easier way, we would have told you by now; perhaps the latest Flash Player Projector could help: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html There are also free screen-recording programs, like CamStudio for Windows: http://camstudio.org/
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