SWF to MOV solutions

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I'm looking for something that allows SWF files to be converted directly into a MOV file.

The MOV needs to be a native quicktime capsule, not a renamed AVI, and needs to be frame-accurate, with audio, at 1080p (1920x1080) with a lossless codec that'll slip directly into a Final Cut Pro timeline.

So far I can do frame-accurate, audio, at res, but only to AVI (or re-badged AVI pretending to be a bloody QT).

We've tried almost everything except Director (if someone feels like having a go with Director I'd be most grateful) but the $999 US price tag is a bit steep for a product I only want one teeny feature of ... if it even works.

I am aware that I can convert the AVI's to MOV files with any number of batch processes but the problem here is bulk of files. I've got 10TB+ worth of already in something like 2000 files per TB, and there will be more.

I'd love to hear anyones thoughts on this.

[Web-Designer-Perth]

After Effects?

I just tried importing a swf and as long as there's no scripting it seems to work. Then you can render to mov. That said, don't know about frame rate / audio.

10TB of swfs? What the 'ell of?

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Originally Posted by Web-Designer-Perth

I just tried importing a swf and as long as there's no scripting it seems to work. Then you can render to mov. That said, don't know about frame rate / audio.

Nah AE won't read any ActionCcript, which means any MovieClip object that sits below a looping Bitmap object, or vice versa. Royal pain in the arse.

Originally Posted by Web-Designer-Perth

10TB of swfs? What the 'ell of?

25ep animated TV series at 1080p :P

[indhyper]

You could (probably) batch convert AVIs to movs using something like this http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ it's basically a GUI to ffmpeg and other codecs. I've used to it to batch process gigs of files over a few days before.

Update: hmm no dice on the free version: http://wiki.mediacoderhq.com/index.php/Main_Page, maybe the paid version can write to mov though? http://www.mediacoderhq.com/solutions/hdv.html

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We are already doing batch conversion of AVI to MOV using either AE or FCP it's just we'd like to skip that by going directly too MOV from SWF.

Sort of giving up on the being an existing solution :/

[indhyper]

Maybe some more bizarre solution is possible like rendering the SWF to a virtual screen, and then doing a capture from that screen and writing that to uncompressed AVI and then converting that to MOV. Probably more doable in Linux or some environment where you can easily create virtual screens.

Or just point a video camera infront of the screen playing the SWF

[aprillove20]

Anyways, Nah AE won't read any ActionCcript, which means any MovieClip object that sits below a looping Bitmap object, or vice versa.

[scross]

Do you have the Adobe Design Suite? It comes with the Adobe Media encoder which allows you to bring in just about any type of media file and encode as another format?