Converting Flash movies

[mijman]

I need help with a couple of Flash movies to make them avi or mpg or...anything else. When I went to open them up with Flash 5, it said that they were protected. Any ideas? Someone in a past post suggested quicktime. Does that open Flash stuff?

[Homeiss]

You say when you try and open the swf file it says it is protected?

Well go to the site below and download the prog' it will unprotect the swf file so you can import it.

Hope that answers that.

[TIbrO]

What site below??
I need this program, too, cause I have mad SWFs that I didn't make which I would love to burn to VCD!

[lnetzel]

Not tested but pretty sure of it!

Open in "Flash player" NOT FLASH, comes with the flash installation though, export as AVI (some choice on a menu) and then use TMPGenc to convert to Mpg!

[EP10]

Unprotecting: Use the Swifty Unprotector, found at

http://members.xoom.com/burakk

"Swifty Unprotector 1.0 Copyright ©1998 Burak KALAYCI"

Drag & Drop the swf and that's it.

[mijman]

Thanks EP10, you're a life saver (you know, the candy)
seriously, though, this seems to have worked for one of them, but I still cannot export or save as another format, even in the Flash program itself.
The other movie is too big for Swifty to handle, apparently.
I'll have to keep trying other things.

[smeghean68]

What do you do if the file is to large to unprotect with that swifty thing?

[mijman]

Anyone?!?!

[rcw003]

I can figure out how to convert .swf over to a file format that can easily be converted to mpeg. However I can't get any audio to convert over with it.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or a program that works better then Quicktime???

[Vertino]

I've been trying to convert SWFs I got from http://www.ninjai.com into AVI -> VCD. I've learnt alot of things...

Here's what I did!

Once I downloaded the SWF, they were protected... so I got FlashIt (Flash File Deprotector) - it ripped the protect right off them... even on bigger files!!!

(you can get FlashIt from the Tools section here... http://flwright.cjb.net/ )

Then I opened the SWFs in Flash 5, exported them as a DivX (original) AVI movie.... there was lots of whitespace surrounding the movie... and there was NO AUDIO!!!

that sucked! - so I looked for applications that would ripp the audio... I found SWFScanner (from http://www.livetronix.com/ )
it needs registering before you can extract any objects though!! - try http://www.cracks.am for the KeyGen?!?!

once I got SWFScanner working I extracted the MP3 audio tracks.... (I later uncompressed the MP3s to PCM WAVs for easier file handling)

so now I had a bunch of DivX/AVIs and MP3/WAVs... hoping that I could just multiplex them together....

I used VirtualDub to do this.... this started off fine, until everything went out of sync!?!??!

I've tried a variety of methods to sync them up... skewing the audio, changing frame rates, etc... but it still a bit of a botch-job!!!!

few hours later, and when I was happy.... I converted the AVIs to MPEG(VCD) in TMPGEnc.... all turned out pretty OK, but I still feel that the sync-ing is a problem!

Because Flash 5 relies on actionScript to start/stop the audio, that means that a 5min audio file wont sync with a 5min 30sec video file... hence some desktop video editing is required.


if anyone has a better method, then let us know!!!!

hope its been helpful!

- Vertino



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