.swf files?

Question

Is there a movie maker program that I can use that saves projects as .swf files? I really need help, I have no clue, all i know is that i need to save my movie as a .swf file.

Answer 1

swf files are shockwave flash files. you can use flash player projector (only in windows operating system), or a flash player plugin for your web browser (almost any web browser) to view that file. you can donwload flash player freely from http://www.adobe.com
when you installed flash player, you can see swf files. it is a very popular file format. but it will reduce the quality (and the size) of your movie.
you can use Macromedia Flash to do so, or CorelRAVE, or Adobe Premier.

Answer 2

If your trying to create .swf files Macromedia Captivate is a good product although it is not cheap. But if you already have the files and just need to play them, the nice thing about the file extension (.swf) is that you should be able to run it in windows. There are a lot of free movie downloads, but I would proceed with caution. Your best resource that you already have on your computer should be IE (Internet Explorer). Another good one is Adobe Flash player. It's also free and much more trustworthy that others you will find on-line for free.

Depending on what version of windows you are running if you attempt to launch the .swf files you will get a window asking you what to open it with. Scroll down to IE and select it as the program to run your .swf files and you should be able to see the movies from there. I included the Adobe Flashplayer 6 link below as well as a link for Captivate

Answer 3

huh? Don't ask me I thought swf meant single white female!

Answer 4

I use Flix Pro.
http://www.on2.com/consumer/flix-pro

Michael
http://www.webmasterautomation.com/videos/

Answer 5

"SWF is a proprietary vector graphics file format produced by the Adobe Flash software. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function. The Flash program produces SWF as the compressed and uneditable final product, whereas it uses the .fla format for its editable working files.

The name is not officially an acronym, although it has been attributed as standing for Small Web Format and Shockwave Flash [1]. According to Macromedia, SWF is pronounced "S W F" (with each letter being pronounced individually), but some people prefer to pronounce it as "swiff."[citation needed]

Flash is currently the most ubiquitous and dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web, far exceeding the open standard SVG format, which has met with problems over competing implementations of the W3C standard. SWF is also sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials.

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1 Description
2 Licensing
3 External links
3.1 Documentation
3.2 Third-party software
3.2.1 Players
3.2.2 Libraries
3.2.3 Tools



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Description
Originally limited to presenting vector based objects and images in a simple sequential manner, the newer versions of the format allow audio, video and many different possible forms of interaction with the end user. Once created, SWF files can be played by the Adobe Flash Player, working either as a browser plugin or as a standalone player. SWF files can also be encapsulated with the player, creating a self-running SWF movie called a "projector".

The file format was first created by Macromedia and had one main goal: create small files for displaying entertaining animations. The idea was to have a format which could be reused by a player running on any system and which would work with slower network (such as a browser used with a modem). Plugins to play SWF files in web browsers are available from Adobe for most desktop operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and Linux on Intel. Adobe claims that over 97% of web users now have an SWF plugin installed [2], based on an independent study conducted by NPD Research.

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Licensing
Although a full specification of SWF is available, it is not an open format, as implementing software that plays the format is disallowed by the specification's license. Reverse engineering is therefore the only legal way to compete with the official SWF player, and no adequate competition yet exists but Microsoft plans to make Metro, an equivalent format, a new standard.

Implementing software which creates SWF files is permitted, on the condition that the resulting files "[render] error free in the latest publicly available version of Macromedia Flash Player." [3]

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External links
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Documentation
Official SWF reference
Alexis' SWF Reference
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Third-party software
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Players
SWF Movie Player - Free Flash player for Mac OS by Eltima Software
Swfdec - an open source player [4]
Stand-Alone Flash Player - third-party stand-alone SWF player for Windows (shareware and freeware versions).
Flash Movie Player - freeware SWF player for Windows
GPLFlash - Free software Flash decoder and plugin
Gnash - Free software Flash decoder and plugin
Acidum Flash Player - Free software Free Flash Viewer for SWF and EXE (Project) files, convert EXE to SWF and SWF to EXE. Compress SWF movies 100% without loses quality.
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Libraries
SWFSource SDK Cross-Platform Flash SDK for addition of Flash Import / Export to applications.
SWF Scout Commercial ActiveX/.NET library for rich flash movies generation. Can create new flash movies using existing SWF as templates.
Delphi SWF SDK Commercial. Contains pure Object Pascal library for creating SWF files, without any external dynamic libraries.
Flirt An open source Flash parsing and rendering library
LIBSWF A library for generating Macromedia Flash .swf files from scratch
OpenLaszlo Open source platform for developing AJAX-style applications that compile to SWF.
MING A SWF output library and PHP module. (See also Ming library)
JSwiff Open source Java API for SWF import and export
SSWF A library and a script compiler to create SWF content
JGenerator Java-based swf generation library. This software was developed by JVox but is now under the control of Macromedia.
gameswf A public domain library for parsing and rendering SWF movies, using 3D hardware APIs for rendering. It is designed to be used as a UI library for computer and console games.
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Tools
Flasm A free command line assembler/disassembler of Flash ActionScript bytecode
MTASC Open source ActionScript compiler
haXe an high level language compiler for SWF/Javascript/Neko, by the MTASC authors
Flash Optimizer Software for compressing large SWF files
Flash decompiler and SWF to FLA converter SWF decompiler, which also converts files to FLA and AVI, MP3, PNG, TXT, HTML and some other formats
KineticFusion A standalone RVML <-> SWF compiler/decompiler
Kindisoft A free ActionScript Obfuscator
NeoSwiff A C# to SWF compiler
Flash Control for ASP.NET 2.0 A .NET web control to include SWF files in aspx pages
swfShrink a Java-based freeware that enables to (re-)compress images of a Flash movie to reduce its file size.
SWF Tools a collection of SWF manipulation and creation utilities released under the GPL.
DrawSWF a simple drawing program written in Java2. You can save your drawings as animated flash file. .
Acidum Flash Player - convert EXE to SWF and SWF to EXE, create EXE Project files from SWF, Compress SWF movies 100% without loses quality."