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Why is this so hard? Why does Flash hate me so much?

I have a single Flash piece. It’s about five minutes long. It has on streaming sound, played from the stage. No actions. No movie clips. Nothing fancy at all.

I want this in FLV form. Why is this so hard? WTF can’t I just export as FLV?

It looks like I have to export it as an AVI, then use the FLV converter to convert AVI-FVL. Why?

But I can’t even do that. I can’t export it as an uncompressed AVI. For some reason, it comes out completely farked, with the video offset both horizontally and vertically, pieces of video playing in the wrong place, all manner of crap.

I can’t export it with compression (at least, not the codecs I’ve tried) because it only dumps 80% of the movie and then stops – four minutes, rather than five.

I’ve tried a SWF -> AVI convertor. It creates the AVI half the time, but doesn’t get the sound.

This should be a 30 second operation, and I’ve been fighting it for two DAYS! WHY????

export to quicktime using flash cs3, then convert that to a flv.

Well, I tried that, and the results are ... better. I generally avoid QT because I can't get it to compress to a reasonable size without looking like utter dog poop.

There's a little funkiness at the beginning of the movie and, for some reason, graphic symbols which are set to 'Play Once' instead loop forever in the movie.

BLARG!!!

Shouldn't this be an easy, one-step process?

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It's all predicated on getting the thing out as an uncompressed AVI, first thing. I can't get that to farking work! RAR!!

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Did you see this bit?

Quote:
"I've found a way to convert it easily, using other peoples methods and mine. There is only one problem though. I will first tell you how to convert:

1) Get the SWF and then import it into SOTHINK SWF Decompiler. Then click the 'export resources' button. MAKE SURE that the 'Frames' option is not set - it wastes time and disk space.

2) Then make sure the video option is set as 'flv' and the sound option is set as 'mp3'.

3) Start the convert. Then when done, start the program 'Cinemaforge' and input the video file and use the mp3 as audio. Then export it as an FLV file.

4) Then, use Buraks FLV Meta Program to add any meta tags - (if needed)"

I can't believe that Flash hasn't solved this problem!!
What's the barrel?

Oh... that's the barrel!

Originally posted by: LonelySchnozz
Did you see this bit?

Quote:
"I've found a way to convert it easily, using other peoples methods and mine. There is only one problem though. I will first tell you how to convert:

1) Get the SWF and then import it into SOTHINK SWF Decompiler. Then click the 'export resources' button. MAKE SURE that the 'Frames' option is not set - it wastes time and disk space.

2) Then make sure the video option is set as 'flv' and the sound option is set as 'mp3'.

3) Start the convert. Then when done, start the program 'Cinemaforge' and input the video file and use the mp3 as audio. Then export it as an FLV file.

4) Then, use Buraks FLV Meta Program to add any meta tags - (if needed)"

I can't believe that Flash hasn't solved this problem!!

The docs are clear about avi export limitations.


Anyways if you're ambitious you can write your own exporter with Northcode (with the demo of northcode even). But this is tedious method, and requires much thinking on frame rate, and audio sync.

Old fashioned ActionScripted on one frame swf: memoryprojector.com/jeff/water/

This kind of swf will NOT convert to avi using Adobe software.

However, using Northcode you can do frame dumps.
That same ActionScript as a capture via Northcode playing as a flv: memoryprojector.com/jeff/water/filtertoVideoPlayer7.html



The difference in direction of the water is reversed on purpose. I was playing with the swf after I did the conversion to flv.

Northcode:

var ic = 0;
captureEvent = function () {
	updateAfterEvent();
	ic++;
	fscommand("Win.SaveAsBitmap", "CLIENTONLY,c:\\tempout\demo"+ic+".bmp");
};
capture = setInterval(this,"captureEvent",42);


kill = function(){
	clearInterval(capture);
	clearInterval(killa);
	_root._alpha = 50;
}

killa = setInterval(this,"kill",20000);

Originally posted by: persist
The docs are clear about avi export limitations.

Originally posted by: persist
Anyways if you're ambitious you can write your own exporter with Northcode (with the demo of northcode even)

<...>

[code]var ic = 0;
captureEvent = function () {
updateAfterEvent();
ic++;
fscommand("Win.SaveAsBitmap", "CLIENTONLY,c:\\tempout\demo"+ic+".bmp");
};

<...>

I have asked adobe about it. being on the betas you get to ask them directly.

"why can't we export properly to video?"


drum roll please...


that's not what flash is for, use aftereffects.

[Suggested Response]
"That's like saying you can't do pinball in flash, seems a shame since swish manages to outputs video."
[/Suggested Response]


Swish exports to AVI
the beta of swishmax2 is here
forums.swishzone.com/index.php?showtopic=51155

I have not tried exporting to AVI and you may need to get the current version rather than the beta, you can normally import flash animations to swish and scenes work, so you might be able to import your swf and export it as video.

ive always wondered about this as well, ran into the problem years ago with an animation i did that had some as
motion in it.

persist: that seems like a great work around, btw that effect is dope captured to video!

cap it.

then convert it.

then enjoy your weekend.

I always use Moyea SWF to Video Converter to convert flash to AVI with alpha channel, then I can edit the video in Premiere, it always works well, and it can also convert swf to AVI (XVID Video/DIVX Video), FLV and almost other popular formats, you can try it on
swfkits.com/swf_to_video/