Converting flash banners to gif? - GoFuckYourself.com

Sly · 07-13-2012, 04:11 PM

How can I do this?

Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE · 07-13-2012, 04:18 PM

You can publish the fla as an animated gif within flash.

Sly · 07-13-2012, 04:19 PM

So I need an Adobe product to do this?

Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE · 07-13-2012, 04:26 PM

Ideally yes and the original fla, otherwise you are looking at some sort of decompiler and or converter.

papill0n · 07-13-2012, 04:40 PM

it doesnt have to be adobe

depending on how many you need to do

http://www.swfkits.com/swf_to_video/

does what you need

kazymjir · 07-14-2012, 07:45 AM

I did some research and found that converting SWF banners to GIF animations is just a waste of time. Generated GIFs have way too high file size to be used on websites.
Why? Because GIFs are series of single pictures, while SWFs are algorithmic creations that uses only a few images.

I can give you an example.
This is my old work from times when I was coding in C++: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnhRtcIoiX0

This program contains only two bitmaps: a ball and a final picture pattern. Everything else is done by a simple algorithm. Generated size of EXE was about 1MB.
Imagine converting this thing to GIF. Instead of two bitmaps, it will have thousands of bitmaps. Imagine the size too.

That's why converting SWFs to GIFs is just waste of time.

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07-14-2012, 07:45 AM	#6
kazymjir Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 411	I did some research and found that converting SWF banners to GIF animations is just a waste of time. Generated GIFs have way too high file size to be used on websites. Why? Because GIFs are series of single pictures, while SWFs are algorithmic creations that uses only a few images. I can give you an example. This is my old work from times when I was coding in C++: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VnhRtcIoiX0 This program contains only two bitmaps: a ball and a final picture pattern. Everything else is done by a simple algorithm. Generated size of EXE was about 1MB. Imagine converting this thing to GIF. Instead of two bitmaps, it will have thousands of bitmaps. Imagine the size too. That's why converting SWFs to GIFs is just waste of time. __________________ http://kazymjir.com/ Last edited by kazymjir; 07-14-2012 at 07:47 AM..

07-13-2012, 04:18 PM	#2
Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE Barterer Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,864	You can publish the fla as an animated gif within flash.

07-13-2012, 04:26 PM	#4
Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE Barterer Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 4,864	Ideally yes and the original fla, otherwise you are looking at some sort of decompiler and or converter.

07-13-2012, 04:40 PM	#5
papill0n Unregistered Abuser Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 15,547	it doesnt have to be adobe depending on how many you need to do http://www.swfkits.com/swf_to_video/ does what you need