Tips on converting video to SWF format

A few days ago one of my friends asked me how to convert his videos to SWF format so he can upload them to his website to broadcast his company. Actually it is simple what we need is a video to Flash converter. It is easy to say but find the best one is difficult as there are so many similar applications on the market. Here I recommend Moyea Flash Video MX Pro. This software can support imputing nearly any video format and export .flv file, .swf file and .html file. You can use the .html file as a webpage directly.

This article will tell you how to convert video to SWF directly.

After you install and launch the program, you can see this interface.

Step1. Import video

Let’s take an MP4 file for example. Import the video and you can see it in the preview panel.

Here you can edit your video like trimming and cropping, adding watermark on your video, setting brightness and contrast, even capture a snapshot of your video. Now I will teach you how to add a logo on your video. This software allows you to add an image watermark or a text watermark. Choose Watermark section, press add button, and you can choose add an image or a text watermark.

After you add the watermark, you can see the effect like this:

Step2. Output settings

In this section, you can choose the output folder and output formats. Here are three choices for you to choose "Generate Flash video (FLV)", "Embed the video in SWF and play in timeline", and "Generate HTML file".

If you want to convert your video to SWF file only please select Embed the video in SWF and play in timeline or do not select Generate Flash video (FLV). As a default this software can generate a FLV file, a SWF file and a HTML file, if you want to upload your video on your website please put all these three files in the same folder and the HTML file can be used directly as a web page.

Step3. Add player and preloader

As you see in above picture, you can add a player skin and preloader on your video and with beautiful special effects.

Step4. Convert

In the final interface, just press the Start button you can get your SWF file in a few minutes.

How to embed SWF into HTML page You can code the page as follows:

Well, have you noticed the christmas_1.flv in blue? This can be modified to the absolute path of the .flv file. For example: (can support HTTP and RTMP)

The above only support IE, if you want it to support Firefox, please follow this: Modify

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How to embed video and FLV player into the website

As a web designer, every body wants his website to be beautiful. But apart from the font and picture, what will be new to keep our clients? A video, embed a video, better with a beautiful player, on your web of course can attract more people to view your website. But how to do this is still not easy to answer. Actually you just need a good software.

This article will tell you how to embed video and FLV player into your website with one application.

What we need?

1. FLV movie. FLV is the most popular video format of on-line streaming because it has good quality and small size. So the first you need to do is find FLV video or convert your video to FLV format.
2. A beautiful player, if you just embed a video on your website but your clients can not control it themselves, it also can not keep you clients. With a beautiful player, you can make your video more attractive and give your clients more choice.
3. A webpage which embedded a video. If you know how to make webpage and how to embed video on it, that will be simple. But if you don’t know you also can get one with some software.
4. Moyea Flash Video MX Pro. This application can provide all the above things to you.

What Moyea Flash Video MX Pro can provide you?

1. It can easily convert video and DVD to Flash, FLV encoded by Flash 8 with alpha, AVC/H.264, Flash 8, and Sorenson Spark video codecs, together with dynamic video compression and audio settings!
2. It can generate a SWF file, which is the FLV player. Or embed the FLV into the SWF.
3. It can generate a HTML file; you can use it as a webpage directly or use its codes.

How to use Flash Video MX Pro to do these things?

Let us take an AVI file for example.

Steps:

1. Open Flash Video MX Pro, and import the video in the program.

Under Edit", you can trim a video clip, crop a video area.

Under Effect", you can adjust the video effects, like contrast, brightness, etc.

Under Watermark", you can add a text and image watermark to your video.

Under Snapshot", you can capture a random image from the video.

You can see the effects in the following picture.

Click Next" to continue.

2. In Export", check Generate Flash", and click Next" to continue.

Here you can embed the video in SWF, but if you want to get the HTML file you need to choose Generate HTML file.

3. Under Player skin, choose your Flash Player skin from the categories: Classic, Opaque, Translucent, and Transparent.

Here you see you have many beautiful player skins to choose. And you also can add preloader and special effects.

4. Under Profile, select a Player profile in the drop list, or custom a profile and save it for later use by clicking "Save".

5. Click Start to launch the conversion

Wait a few minutes; you can get your .flv file, .swf file and .html file.
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At last, upload the generated SWF and FLV files in the same folder together with this page. And you can enjoy it on your webpage now!

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