Does anyone know how to convert .swf to .flv?

[Atman]

It is nuts that Adobe doesn't have a feature in Flash to convert or save. I have lots of old .swf animations I'd like to post on my FB professional page, but FB doesn't support .swf, have to be .flv...even though they're both just Flash files. I Googled it and found four free programs which claim to to do it, but one is PC only (I have Windows 7 on my Mac -- I suppose I could try booting it up), and the others claim to convert virtually any video format to any other, but then the .swf option isn't on the menu. I have the CS4 suite, the animations were created in Flash Pro and Flash CS3. I'm flummoxed!

On edit: I did find out how to capture video on-screen using QuickTime, but it doesn't capture sound. As a last resort, I might do a capture of the .swf, then try to sync the audio track to it. It's a work-around that shouldn't be necessary.

[Fumesucker]

1. Super is free and seems to convert anything video to anything else

It's not particularly user friendly though.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[Atman]

4. Thanks...this looks like the only one that will do the job.

It does look a little complicated, though. It's the only one I've seen that lists .swf as an input source. But I'll have to launch Windows 7...I installed it on my Mac a few weeks ago in order to run my wife's crazy sewing machine, but we've never actually booted it up yet. This ought to be interesting!

[NYC_SKP]

2. flvcrunch?

http://download.cnet.com/Flv-Crunch/3000-2194_4-10909295.html

[Sunderlandgreen]

17. Convert SWF to FLV on Mac

Have a try with Jihosoft SWF Converter for Mac, although it is not free, but you may satisfy with the conversion result.

[ChromeFoundry]

3. SWF and Flash are not video files

FLA is a Flash - Video Container. SWF can be looked at as an application. One of the features of the application is to display audio and video from a contained file.

Rather than "converting" to FLV, you may want to look at something like a SWF Extractor. An extractor can rip-out the contained video and audio (usually MP3 for audio and MP4 for Audio/Video) and write it to a file. Then that file format can be converted, or placed directly into an FLV container.

Most of the so called "SWF to Video Converters" are to capture the animations created in an SWF file.. like some of those interactive games and ads that move sprites around over a timeline, by way of Flash and ActionScript. If all you want to do is play a video file, look for a ripper/extractor.

Hope this helps.

[pokerfan]

5. FFmpeg

and pretty much converts anything to anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
http://www.ffmpeg.org/

[Spirochete]

6. Any Video convertor should work

http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

[RoccoR5955]

7. Handbrake should work, I think

check it out on sourceforge.net

[dwightgenius]

8. try this

Hello Atman,
Have you tried the SWF to FLV converter from moyea?
http://www.swfkits.com/swf-to-flv-converter/ (for PC)
http://www.swfkits.com/swf-converter-mac/ (for Mac)

The windows version works good on my computer.

[displacedtexan]

9. Freemake Video Converter (free)

freemake.com

Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to insert a link using my ipad.

Freemake is a one-touch converter. I love it. They also have a free downloader for youtube, vimeo, etc.

[cerefony]

12. convert SWF to FLV

Check this guide: How to convert SWF to FLV

[TeamPooka]

13. welcome to DU!

[Atman]

14. That looks perfect! I wish it wasn't $100!

I suppose it's a career thing, so it'd be tax deductible. But damn...that's steep for a one-trick pony!

[mikyny]

15. bvcsoft swf to flv converter works great.

bvcsoft swf to flv converter works great.I'm using it.also support swf volume normalizer with high quality.

[qwetorast]

16. swf to flv

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I use AppGeeker video converter (www.appgeeker.com) for transcoding always. Should work well for your requirement.

[hansberjime]

18. I always do this conversion

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I love flash, I always make some flash animations, to convert swf to flv you can see this firecoresoft.com/convert-swf/convert-swf-to-flv.html
If you choose to record the video, I did not try this.

[Agschmid]

20. This is a pretty old thread.

Also I never click on links if I can't see where they are taking me... some of these sites are all malware just FYI.

[gopiscrap]

21. Welcome to DU

[Teppy]

23. Me too

Atman,

Did any of these work for you? I too have a bunch of decade-old animations -- fla's and swf's -- that I can't get converted into a format that youtube will take.

Teppy

[wandy]

25. Freemake. I don't know how good it is for .swf to flv. Conversions for

other formats work well.
It's free so worth giving it a try.
http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_convert_video_to_flash_swf_flv

[comeincrease]

26. swf to flv

You may also follow this step by step guide to batch convert .swf to .flv on Mac or Windows computer

This guide can not only convert SWF to FLV, but also supports converting SWF to MP4, SWF to AVI, SWF to MOV, SWF to MKV, WMV, ASF, WebM, MXF, DV, RM, MPEG, etc.

It even can extract audio from SWF container and then save the extracted audio files into like convert SWF to MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, AC3, DTS, CAF, AIFF, and FLAC and so on famous audio formats.

In this case, you can enjoy SWF files on almost all kinds of popular players and portable devices like iTunes, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, BlackBerry and so on.

[hobbit709]

29. here we go again.

[gopiscrap]

30. Welcome to DU

[hobbit709]

33. and again.

[brayma]

35. It's not an issue nowadays.

SWF is also the flash video format as FLV and they can be used in some common situations. But SWF is less famous than FLV; many people are not familiar with the video format. So, when someone gets some SWF videos even share them on YouTube, he would like to convert the videos to FLV just by intuition. Then, how to convert SWF to FLV? I'm sure some top free video converters are pretty helpful. If you don't want to install the 3rd party software, you may make a search about free online video converter via Google. I don't think this is a problem nowadays.