how to rip FLash videos off of a CD?

[Jeremy Allen]

I would ask them for the original video source. The flv video will most likely be highly compressed, which will affect the final quality of your edit, especially if you add any FX or color correction to the video.

Having said that, this should answer your question. You will have to convert the flv to an mov or other editable file. The FLV format is not intended as a file to be edited.

There are several programs that will do this, but I can’t speak to their performance because I’ve never used any of them. A quick Google search of “Flv to Mov” will return plenty.

Finally, since you posted this here, I will assume you are planning to edit this stuff with After Effects, which is certainly not the best workflow. You should edit with something like Final Cut, Premiere, Sony Vegas, etc..

I hope some of this helps.. Good luck!

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[Milton Hockman]

there actually SWFs. compressed.
they look good and scale great. i think they were made in Flash.

i cannot get the raw source. only have the compressed SWFs.

how can i convert them to use in AE and Avid?

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[Viacheslav Sasykin]

Having them in SWF format makes the situation little bit more complicated.
First, you have to extract .flv video from your .swf files with help of program like Sothink SWF Decompiler (https://www.sothink.com/product/flashdecompiler/) and then as Jeremy suggested, do Google search for “flv to mov” or something like this, he is right – search will return plenty… to convert .flv to QT format (AE can eat almost everything but Avid may be quite picky about import formats)
Frankly, it all sounds like a lot of troubles to me… May be it’s gonna be faster and easier to use some screen recorder.
And also, I would ask for advice here at Flash forum, those guys may know better…