Wanted - .mov (quicktime) to swf converter ...

[tsaint]

I'd like anyone's recommendations on a mov to swf converter - freeware would be nice  if possible.
Have sighted a few shareware ones, but I'm a bit put off by the prices I'm seeing (can't really afford / justify it) Maybe there's a good cheapie out there!

[relipse]

what are the shareware ones?

[tsaint]

flash video studio, swishvideo,total video converter, sothink flashvideo encoder so far ... Ive been checking through the list at
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/free-mov-to-swf.html
(most products there aren't freeware)

[Carol Haynes]

QuickTime Pro will export files in AVI format (I think the Pro license costs $29.95) You may be able to find a cheaper or free converter to AVI.

Then CamStudio can convert AVI to SWF ... see http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=427.0

A good conversion program is WinAVI - it converts most video formats and is quite customisable. Unfortunatley SWF isn't one of the formats supported for export (it is for import) but there is a huge range (inc. AVI) also at $29.95.

By the way - if you go for WinAVI let me know - there are some additional plugins required for some formats, and whilst the developer was helpful tracking them down they weren't obvious to find. (use the forum PM service)

[tsaint]

thanks Carol, will start following that up tomorrow. She who must be obeyed has pointed to the time

[Carol Haynes]

Quite useful being the 'She' in question ... we have our uses you know 

[gunsta]

hep

Try use Vdeo to Flash converter 

[mediaguycouk]

Anything based on FFMPEG should do it. Or you can just run FFMPEG I expect

ffmpeg -i "c:\movie.mov" -b 1000k c:\movie.swf

that should do it.

(I've got a custom application that installs ffmpeg and converts media files into Flash 8 @350Kb/s @1MB/s and H.264 @1MB/s. You can untick the ones you don't want)