Flash Director

Flash Director

An app that I've made: its purpose is to create bitmap sequences and wave files out of a flash animation: for example, I was able to create a DVD of the AYB video with the use of this program. Open it up, click on Load SWF or Load Web SWF.

If you clicked Load SWF it will popup a simple common dialog. If you clicked Load Web SWF it will prompt you for the address, and tell you whether or not the program found it (if it found it, it will 'freeze' the program while it downloads). So, when it's done, you can change the frame size (any size from 1x1 to just under the size of your screen), and the frame range (ex. frames 15 to 210).

One flaw with this program thus far is that it is unable to get the framerate. I suggest you get FlashToolset 1.1, which is able to report the FPS of any SWF movie on your hard disk. So, go into Export Settings (it'll tell you the approximate amount of data it will store, except for the audio data). It tells you that it is about 11mb/minute of audio, so make sure you have enough room for that (and the graphics). The graphics are usually quite hefty (4m 10s of 720x480 BMPs is about 5 gigs), so once again make sure you have room!

Now press export. It will take a while, and it has two passes: the first is the video pass and the second is the audio. The video pass goes at 4 fps on my Celeron 550, for 720x480. It gets better as you lower the resolution. So, I left it alone for 20 minutes and it finished its thing. Then the audio takes the exact length of the movie (it records it as it plays).

Make sure no windows move in front of the movie as it is recording, and that you play no sounds during the audio phase.

Now you're done! You can close my program (thank god, eh :rolleyes:?) and open TMPGenc, VirtualDub, or another editing program. For TMPGenc, simply select the first bitmap file, and the wave file (I think it'll get all the bitmaps for you). And for virtual dub do the same (Open, Bitmap Sequence). It will detect all the bitmaps, then go Audio -> WAV Audio and select the wave file. Now you've got a wonderful AVI or MPG video of your favourite SWF :)

Enjoy!