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SWF & FLV ToolBox 4

Flash video conversion utility
Monday 15 March 2010.
 

SWF & FLV ToolBox 4
Flash-to-Video Conversion Utility
$39.95 (on offer - regular price is: $55.95)
Eltima Software: http://www.eltima.com/products/swf-tools

Videos and animations in Adobe Flash format seem to be everywhere you look these days - whether it be cartoon badgers or YouTube videos, you can bet your bottom dollar it’s Flash.

But Flash isn’t the only video format you’ll ever need. There may be times when you want to use a video with software that doesn’t support Flash. Or you may want to convert a Flash into AVI for viewing in Windows Media Player. You may even want to create an animated GIF for you web site based on frames in a Flash movie. Whatever your reasons, if you want to convert Flash videos to another format you have a problem. And that is exactly the problem that Eltima Software’s SWF & FLV Toolbox is designed to solve.

Using a simple user interface it lets you open a Flash format video and simply convert it to AVI, animated GIF or into a sequence of still pictures in JPG, GIF or BMP format. You can also convert from the ‘native’ FLV Flash format into the more widely supported ‘native’ SWF format. As an added benefit it also does simple conversion to executable (exe) and screensaver (scr) files.

You can convert one file at a time either by dragging them from the Windows Explorer onto the Toolbox interface or by browsing. If you have a number of files to convert you can switch to a separate tabbed page to add multiple file and convert them all at once.

There is a built-in video previewer and a conversion log which gives information while the conversion is taking place. There are also various optional advanced settings that can be applied in order, for example, to resize or crop the video or configure the audio settings.

This is, it has to be said, rather a specialised tool. If you don’t already know you need it, I think it’s probably safe to say that you don’t. But if you have a load of Flash files that you want translated into one of the supported formats then, clearly, this is the tool for the job.

Personally, I would find more use for a conversion tool that did things ‘the other way around’ - that is, one that converts from other video formats to Flash. In fact, Eltima Software has one of those too - it’s called The SWF Video Converter. I can’t help thinking that a single product that combined the features of these two tools would have broader appeal than one that goes in just one direction or the other. And it would be even more useful if a greater variety of video formats were supported. Even so, the SWF & FLV ToolBox is a useful and easy-to-use tool which does just what it claims to do.

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