Hello, I'm on Ubuntu Edgy and I'm making swf cartoon animations with a Windows program called KoolMoves (that I'm using via CrossOver 6). I'd like to be able to convert final swf animations to some video format (avi, mov, or whatever) and I'm so far having no luck finding a way to do that.
Things I've tried but couldn't get to work: 1. Windows-based programs in CrossOver. Despite being able to get KoolMoves itself working in CrossOver, I've had no luck getting any Windows-based swf-to-video converters working. 2. MEncoder/ffmpeg. Neither seems able to read the swf files I'm producing, even if I make sure to produce uncompressed swf files. (To be clear, I've successfully used MEncoder and ffmpeg for other tasks, just not this one.) 3. Screen/Desktop Capture software. I've tried playing the swf in the stand-alone flash player and capturing it with three different screencast packages (recordMyDesktop, Istanbul, and xvidcap). They all ultimately fail because they seem to capture bounding boxes of movieclips and other such artifacts that make the resulting video unwatchable. So is there an OS tool or combination of tools that could convert a swf (including movieclips and actionscript-based animation) into a decent video file? My goal is to be able to put my animations on a service like YouTube (which, as far as I know, doesn't take swf files), so the end quality doesn't have to be great; it just needs to be watchable. I can knit together image sequences and add sound in something like Cinelerra or even MEncoder, so frame-by-frame capture (to, say, a png sequence) or soundless video would be acceptable. Thanks, Matt Jordan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
