puting flash videos into AviSynth

[gavo]

puting flash videos into AviSynth ?? any suggestions

[Ark]

The only way i know is save in avi format directly from Flash, then load in Avisynth with the classic Avisource().

Standard Flash movies (*.swf) aren't "real" video footage, so Avisynth can't read them (at the moment, maybe there will be a method in the future for reading such format...)

[MrTVideo]

I actually use Swish, that creates avi files of flash type movies. I must admit though for my main home video creation wether to tape disk or web I do the final build using Studio 8 Title Decko is the icing on the cake. Studio cannot do reverse video etc. Thats why I use the special effects I obtain via this forum

[Mug Funky]

a little trick i discovered with encrypted swf files is to save to avi via Director's stage. director appears to use windows' screen capping, so don't bring up any windows while you're exporting, and make sure you slow everything down to a framerate your codec can handle. huffy RGB should be pretty good.

this violates the DMCA, though, which i guess means Macromedia are their own worst enemies :)

[edit]

with unencrypted swf files, you can actually grab the mp3 sound straight out of them without re-encoding it. make a copy of the .swf file, then using an mp3 cutter (mp3directCut can handle this), load the copy into it, and re-save the file. the reason - swf stores mp3 streams as 1 big chunk in the file, and modern mp3 codecs (possibly because of the ACM riff header hack) simply read through any file until they find valid mp3 frames. running through an mp3 cutter will just ditch all of the swf that isn't mp3.

this doesn't work for encrypted files - the frames are all jumbled up in these, and you get gibberish with some partially recognisible sounds, but nothing recoverable without a good week's work. just record this through sound-card loopback.

[gavo]

thanx will try.