Hmmm... you know I am curious about wtf all of those signs mean.. but I dont want get involved in it. good luck with the movie your working on!
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lol, thanks man.
If you have a spare PC, I highly recommend Moyea SWF to Video (or MPEG if the budget is smaller).
I too use a mac, and with all these video editing capabilities now and days, you'd think a swf to video program would be more convenient.
I suggested Moyea because many of the so-called "swf converters" either do not incorporate movie clips, interfere with action script (like if you have a menu or what not), or go terribly out of sync. Moyea lets you manually play the video and will record the sound/video. If it not in sync, or if you have a lot of frame skipping, you can have the movie play back a slower speed, to whatever speed you want, and it will be more accurate in capturing/syncing frames.
The problem is, the movie actually has to play out to be converted, so when I put my 16 minute flash in there for 7 times slower speed, I had to wait around 2 hours :X. But it all depends on how powerful the computer is, how much is going in in the flash, the flash dimensions, and duration.
I've been looking for a converter for Mac though that can do something like Moyea.
I've tried using Moyea before, but I never knew that you could run a flash at a lower speed then normal when recording. I'll have to give that a go.
If it's CS3 you should be able to import some SWFs (provided theres no animation within movie clip symbols.)
If not (might be picky), if you have at least Flash CS3, you can export your flash as a Quicktime mov file, using the H.264 codec. This'll export your flash in a video with movie clip animation intact with some good quality and you can generate an alpha channel too. Just bear in mind that you'll want to take out preloaders or any code that pauses or stops the movie in order to export properly.
Yeah I animate within movie clips, which is why exporting Quicktime movies never really worked for me, though I don't think I've ever tried exporting with that codec before, thanks for the info.
Shit, you're gonna have some trouble since you use movie clips, actionscript ruins everything too. But for me, the best is to lay everything out on the timeline, doesn't matter if it lags or whatever. Don't have any event sounds either, all streaming. Next, export to AVI, use the Cinepac Codec at 95% since that holds gradients the best. Then drop that shit into After Effects. That's as far as I can go since I don't know AE AT ALL...
AE is a fun program, I'd recommend at least downloading the free trial and looking at some tutorials.
Youre going to have to untrain yourself to work in movie clips if your ultimate goal is porting it to video. Part of using flash is knowing the limitations and hurdles of going to a new platform with it. Same type of issues exist when creating css for mobile devices. Cant have the bull without the horns.
What about animating in graphic symbols, is that allowed?
sothink swf to video.
Noted.
dude you're almost 20, you still drawin like that?
As surprising as it sounds, I can draw better than that.
Eddsworld seems to be good at conversion. Why not ask them? Also, there are always screen recorders like CamStudio.
You've got a point, maybe I'll drop him a line (though I'm about 90% sure he uses a screen recorder).
flash comes with a converter to change the file type to FLV why not try that
Well maybe I will... >_>
<a href="http://www.sothink.com/product/swftovideoconverter/">http://www.sothink.com/product/swftov ideoconverter/</a>
Best converter ever. Even Adobe states this as the best.
I'll have to check it out, thanks.
don't use moyea, it works on screencapture so if it frameskips while capturing your video will frameskip too.
magic swf2avi is ok, but it doesn't compare to flash cs4's video export. it's probably the only good thing about cs4.. i've been using it to make mov's out of my fla's for months now and it hasn't failed me once. it takes into account movieclips, AS and everything.
i haven't tried image sequences with it, though. they're the best output option because they're the only true lossless export for video, and AE treats an image sequence as a video clip which is very nice.
I honestly didn't know CS4 had video exporting capabilities, I'll have to look into that, and maybe I'll try doing an image sequence export, see if that works too.
I don't know, I have after effects and I can import SWF's but without sound, only the animation
My main problem is that from time to time I'll animate in movie clips, and AE doesn't like that.
SO HOWS THAT MOVIE COMING? If your working on it I will add you to my front page post. ;)
Hey, do you have a preview of what you have so far? Or are you too busy to show me lol. :P
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