SWF(Shock Wave Flash) is proprietary format of Macromedia(has been acquired by ADOBE) ‘s Flash animation design software, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function. It is widely used in web design, animation, online video, browser games.
Now, SWF file can be generated by several Adobe product s, such as After Effects, Flash, Flash Builder, Illustrator, etc. If you have used Jing a free screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith you will know the output video also swf file.
What are the advantages of SWF file?
SWF file is vector based, so it has the characteristics of scaling but not distortion, and also has the small file size. It use the streaming media technology, you can playing while downloading.
How to play swf file on mac and windows?
To play swf file, you can open then with browser, like IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc. But, to open swf file you should install Adobe Flash Player (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/) first, after install this you can play swf file on mac and windows browsers. Or you can get some video players which can open swf files.
Then how to play swf file on your iphone, android phone?
Unfortunately, under Android, Adobe has dropped support for the Flash plugin on current versions of the OS, and it's not supported at all on current versions of Windows Mobile or Blackberry OS. iPhone also can’t play swf file.
So what should we do to play swf file freely on our computer, tablet, and portable devices?
Method 1: Get a screenshot tool to record the swf file while playing with browser or video player, and then export as a popular video format like mp4, which can play easily. After that you can play it on your portable devices, or imported into imovie, final cut pro, windows movie maker, etc. video editing software for editing. But this method will reduce the video quality since the video recording tool read video from your graphics card.
Method 2: Get a swf converter. A swf tool can help to convert swf file to most of video format like mov, mp4, flv, avi, wmv, 3gp, etc. The most important thing is the conversion won’t impact your video quality. There are lots of swf converter will help you do this swf to video coversion. Now you can see how to use Firecoresoft SWF converter to convert swf file.
How to convert swf file with Firecoresoft SWF converter:
Step one: Install the converter to your computer or mac. After installation, run it.
Step two: Import swf file into this converter by clicking “Select File”
Step three: Choose output format. There are many output formats you can choose. If you want to play swf file on potable diveces, you can choose Apple devices, Samsung, BlackBerry, Android Phone, etc. To edit video, you can choose iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Sony Vegas, Premiere, etc. In the Common Video you can choose output format as avi, mp4, wmv, mov, mkv, 3gp, mpg, etc.
Step four: Click “Start” to start converting swf file.
Tips:
1.If your swf file is a auto cycle playing video, after you clicking the start converting button, and when it finish playing once you should click “Stop” button by yourself. If the swf file only play once then it can stop, it will finish the conversion itself.
2.This tool also allow you Crop your swf file and add watermark to your swf file by clicking “Crop”
After finishing the conversion, you can transfer them to your portable devices for playing, or editing the video with video editing software.
Source from Firecoresoft blog
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