Convert Flash files into AVI and most usable graphic formats. Comments on:

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:35:32 +0000

I tried to convert one flv to avi and it didn’t work. Couldn’t render the file, so I uninstalled it. If a video conversion app won’t do what it claims, then I don’t need it.

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:21 +0000

No luck today at all. Still have to resort to getting a youtube clip to flv through one program, using another program to change to some kind of avi file, and stoik video converter to change that avi file to a dv avi type 2 file for editing in adobe premiere pro.

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:03:28 +0000

Quick Media converter gave me error messages trying to go from flash video to DV DV Video. No luck there either.

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:02:36 +0000

Any video coder didn’t work, and it’s not really free anyway, will only do 3 minutes of video on the free one.

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:40:04 +0000

Tried MediaCoder all day today and many options, got audio to load into premiere but video was scrambled. I give up on mediacoder!

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:43:55 +0000

Format Factory doesn’t seem to do what I need to do either. Tried different codecs and audio compressions.

By: matt headley

matt headley — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:33:55 +0000

Freezes at 50 percent left computer on all night, no luck trying to convert a youtube flash video to mainconcept DV 2.0.4 codec AVI.

Layout of interface is also weird and a little confusing, especially with “assigning tasks”

Still looking for a good flash to DV AVI converter that will convert youtube clips into an avi file that will import into Adobe Premiere.

By: Fubar

Fubar — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:32:52 +0000

Installed, registered, and ran fine on Vista 32-bit, no Administrator privileges required.

Like all multimedia apps, definitely does mess with your DirectX filters.

IE plays SWF files fine; if yours doesn’t, your Flash installation is messed up.

The Help file has a FAQ which explains limitations and workarounds.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:26:40 +0000

Thought this might be a solution to a file format problem I’m having with my website. I have an .swf, but I can’t use it. Animated GIF, however . . . so I installed.

Started conversion of 1.5MB .swf and immediately my 2.2GHz processor shot up to 100% and stayed there for about four minutes while it converted.

End result? It worked, and rather smoothly, but now I have a new problem. My 1.5MB .swf is now a 38MB .gif!

I give Eltima props for some of their past stuff. This one . . . mixed reviews!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:20:15 +0000

Having just tested the creation of a swf from a flv, I believe the resulting swf embeds the flv rather than streams it. The result is that after a short time (less than a minute) the audio is no longer in sync with the video. The inability to stream also means a long wait for a web page containing the video to load.
If there is no ability to stream the video, this product is not usable for web posting.