Export a Flash?

[Jeremy Garchow]

I think you mean flash (.flv) or “swiff” (.swf) (That stands for Shockwave Flash).

Do you have the the adobe cs3 video collection? Or sorenson squeeze? Episode Pro?

Jeremy

[David Roth weiss]

Sara,

No, Compressor will not export Flash video without a plugin. The file types are by the way .swf or .flv files. You need either Flix exporter, to export out of any QT app (FCP, Compressor, QT Pro), or Flix Pro which is the stand alone version. For a lot more money you could also get Adobe Flash, Sorenson Squeeze, or Episode, which are Swiss Army knife type file encoders. Or, for a small fee I can do this for you.

David

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[Kevin Francis]

Or for $23 you can buy VisualHub and do Flash and a whole lot more….

[David Bogie]

There’s a long discussion about whether .swf is “Shockwave format,” “Shockwave Flash,” or “small web format.” I’ve seen fully referenced, cited, official-looking documentation to support al three suggestions. The file extension appears to have predated the invention (or patent or naming) of the products in the Shockwave line which suggests “small web format” is the true meaning. But that would also suggest it predates the Web itself, which is silly.

The ever-unreliable Wiki offers bothe explanations for swif but this one seems to get the most Web cred: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF

> SWF (acronym of “Shockwave Flash”,[1] pronounced swif) is a proprietary file format for multimedia and especially vector graphics. It was developed by Macromedia and is now, following their acquisition, coming from Adobe. Intended to be small enough for publication on the web, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function. SWF is also sometimes used for creating animated display graphics and menus for DVD movies, and television commercials.
SWF is currently the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web, far exceeding the W3C open standard SVG[citation needed], which has met with problems over competing implementations.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Jeremy Garchow]

Hmm. I have always heard Shockwave Flash, but who knows.

[Sara Hoopes]

I do not have those apps. We just exported it through compressor instead of quicktime and had them convert it on their end. Thanks for your help.

Thank you,

Sara

[Sara Hoopes]

Thank you!

Thank you,

Sara