Video Editing flash movies

hemorrhoid · Post by **hemorrhoid** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:46 pm

Is there any good video editing software that can edit flash movies and export them still in flash format?

(Besides Flash of course)

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:58 pm

I thought you could get some plug-ins that import flash into your favourite video editing program??? But i know of one, which is quite crap (because it only excepts flash5 files), called ClipYard. Have a fiddle..... may i remind you its crap.

Please can someone find something better.

Hiddicop · Post by **Hiddicop** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 11:12 am

I think that I once upon a time came over a "flash to video"-converter. It worked great, but I don't remember what it was called. Anyway, there is such programs - the problem is to find them.

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:20 pm

That's a good idea. Search google i guess, "SWF2AVI" or something along the lines as that.

JohnO · Post by **JohnO** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:48 pm

I have to say I'm a little confused about what's needed here. hemorrhoid asked about...

video editing software that can edit flash movies and export them still in flash format?

1. I don't know of any video editing software that can edit Flash movies - they generally edit video.
2. Once a Flash movie is converted to video (of whatever flavour) it's just video, not a Flash movie.
3. Can't think of any video editing software that can export to any Flash format that even Flash can edit - you'd just be importing video.

Or have I completely misunderstood?

beoð ge gesunde

John O

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 8:28 pm

"Can't think of any video editing software that can export to any Flash format that even Flash can edit - you'd just be importing video."

In theory you can import the Flash .swf file in Flash and it will remain in vector format but instead of motion tweens you get all seperate frames. Not very convenient for editing later and if you export it to .swf again it will get very large because of all the keyframes. The tweens and symbols are only kept in the original .fla file.

The only workable method would be using the original .fla files and put the entire animation in one movie clip and save that clip. You can import that movie clip in another Flash file. But you would need the original source material and I'm not sure that's the case here.

Good luck,

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

JohnO · Post by **JohnO** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:51 pm

nobudget wrote:...many wise things...

All very true, but SWF ain't video.

And if you export to video from Flash MX 2004 you can't import and edit it later.

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:30 am

"if you export to video from Flash MX 2004 you can't import and edit it later"

Yes that's true, I was referring to the regular vector format export, not the embedded video kind. If you take one of those vector swf's you can import it and still have the vector drawings intact. It's not meant to be imported but it's somewhat possible. I've used that a couple of times years ago if I needed one or two elements from a web animation. I'd take the .swf from the cache and import that in Flash. Then I have the entire animation and content which I can copy/paste at will and in scalable vector format. But animations will be broken down to seperate frames. I'm talking about the Flash 4 days here, maybe importing newer flash files is blocked now.

I hope it makes sense, it's a non-standard practice and hard to explain in writing. Guess you had to be there...

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

WillBellJr · Post by **WillBellJr** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:25 pm

Well actually now that Adobe has taken over Macromedia assets, AfterEffects 7 is supposed to work very well with SWF files - of course the PRICE may be way above what you wanted to pay but it is possible to load, animate and export SWF files...

-Will

stephklein · Post by **stephklein** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:41 pm

NukaCola, you are the least subtle shill of all time.

moyea · Post by **moyea** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:47 am

I think you should first convert your flash to video, then use video editor to do that.

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:51 pm

Sony Vegas imports Flash 5 files without sound.

Marble555 · Post by **Marble555** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:28 am

moyea wrote:I think you should first convert your flash to video, then use video editor to do that.

to convert flash to video you need a program, i can advice one that i use-
Flash to Video Encoder PRO 4.4, you can google it

Anic · Post by **Anic** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:00 pm

Hi all!
I found some interesting prog , it's could convert video to flash u can get it here.
Good luck!