
{"id":495,"date":"2008-12-10T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-03-18T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T10:59:54","slug":"convert-swf-to-avi-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2008\/12\/10\/convert-swf-to-avi-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert SWF to AVI &#8211; part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"update\"><strong>Update #1:<\/strong> when I wrote this post, this all worked&#8230; <strike>And I have good hope that the site will return. For now I can only say: try again later&#8230;.<\/strike> \ud83d\ude41 <\/div>\n<div class=\"update\"><strong>Update #2:<\/strong> well the site didn&#8217;t return: it&#8217;s as dead as a doorknob &#8230; that&#8217;s too bad. I couldn&#8217;t find a place where you can download it now, so I searched my external harddrive if I had the original zip-file, and I did. So you can download the file at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/u5utxytazn#swfdrop\">http:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/u5utxytazn#swfdrop<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"update\"><strong>Update #3:<\/strong> Today I needed this for a good export to AVI and found out that swfdrop only works if the animation is on the main (root) timeline&#8230; so I used the trick introduced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/24\/convert-swf-to-avi-part2\/\">swf2avi<\/a> > <a href=\"#littletrick\">read more here<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Flash is not very good in converting animations in to AVI&#8217;s because you lose the animations in the nested movieclips. You can export to .MOV but that&#8217;s not a native Windows video codex.<\/p>\n<p>So you want to convert a SWF to AVI (SWF2AVI) or another videofile\/codex (without spending any cash)?<br \/>\nAs the title of this post suggest: I have written about this subject before: in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/12\/convert-swf-to-avi-swf2avi-or-swftoavi\/\">part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/24\/convert-swf-to-avi-part2\/\">part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I found a new freeware tool to help you convert your SWF: <strike><a href=\"#\">www.swfdrop.com<\/a><\/strike>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softpedia.com\/screenshots\/SwfDrop_1.png\" alt=\"SWF DROP: Version 0.9c\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='highlight'><strong>Download: <\/strong> it think this program is very useful, but the creators think different and killed the original site. I still have the original swfdrop.zip and that one can be downloaded here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/u5utxytazn#swfdrop\">http:\/\/www.box.net\/shared\/u5utxytazn#swfdrop<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Remember:<\/strong> I have nothing to do with this program, I only think it&#8217;s useful.\n<\/div>\n<p>This project is also freeware and more up-to-date: October 2007 (<strong>swf2avi<\/strong> is last updated in 27-08-2002 &#038; <strong>swf>>avi<\/strong> is last update in 07.20.2005).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;SWFDROP&#8221; is the SWF converter for Windows to convert Flash SWF file format to AVI format. It&#8217;s the best tool to successfully convert any Flash 6\/7\/8\/9 SWF file into a video AVI file that you can play with Windows Media Player (or any video player), where all other tools don\u2019t work. These, along with a variety of video encoding options, make SWFDROP the best choice for you productivity!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strike>A little preview:<\/strike> you can figure it out, trust me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very easy to use, you can use the codex installed on you computer and it&#8217;s very fast<\/p>\n<div class='highlight' id=\"littletrick\">\nCreate a movie that will load the movie that you want to export.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make this movie the same size as the original<\/li>\n<li>use the same frame rate<\/li>\n<li>only difference with to movie you want to load is the number of frames: use the number that you want (for example: 1000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because swf2avi is based upon as2, this code is also as2<br \/>\n[as]<br \/>\n\/\/ code in frame 1<br \/>\nloadMovieNum(&#8216;name_of_the_movie_you_want_to_render.swf&#8217;, 1);<br \/>\nstopAllSounds();<br \/>\n[\/as]\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update #1: when I wrote this post, this all worked&#8230; And I have good hope that the site will return. For now I can only say: try again later&#8230;. \ud83d\ude41 Update #2: well the site didn&#8217;t return: it&#8217;s as dead as a doorknob &#8230; that&#8217;s too bad. I couldn&#8217;t find a place where you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[407,194,398,41,166,193,53,73,56,195],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-open-source-freeware","tag-animation","tag-convert","tag-flash","tag-freeware","tag-movieclip","tag-swf","tag-swf-to-avi","tag-swf2avi","tag-update","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}