Flash Publishing Tools

Free Video to Flash Converter enables you to convert video files to flash video format (SWF and FLV) so that you can publish them on the web. You can convert the entire video, or selected a particular scene from the clip.

Wink allows you to record desktop action or application windows and create smooth, animated Flash demonstrations from the result, which can be saved in SWF format or as standalone EXE file with integrated playback. Simply press a keyboard key every time you want to capture a frame; when you are finished, you can annotate each frame, using a variety of comment shapes. You can also include Next and GoTo button, allowing the viewer to navigate the animation or jump to specific frames. The frames are then rendered into a smooth Flash animation that can be played in the user`s browser or the standalone EXE file with viewer. Wink is easy to use and lets you create quality Flash demos with no further experience needed.

FLV Player allows Flash developers to play .flv and On2 VP6 files without the need to load them from a server. Just select the file or drag/drop it onto the player to view it. Standard playback controls included. The program can be optionally associated with .flv files, so you can just double-click them to play.

Swiff Player is a standalone Flash player, that allow you to view .SWF files. It can automatically associate itself with Flash files, so all you have to do is double-click a .swf file, and will be launched in the player, using the correct size and with full support for all Flash features.

Fortop SWF Resources Extractor is a simple tool that enables you to extract images and sounds from Flash files (.swf). The extracted resources can be saved in JPEG or PNG format, and MP3 or WAV for audio files.

Powerbullet Presenter allows you to create slick, multi-page Flash presentations, using a simple drag and drop interface and no technical expertise required. You can easily insert sounds or voice recordings (MP3 or WAV files), images (PNG, GIF, JPEG) or other Flash files, create page transitions, animations and more. The program comes with various ready-to-use animation effects, which can be attributed to any object or text, allowing you to let object move into position (with optional delay), fade out images and much more. Additional features include support for hyperlinks, source editing (html), tables, integrated voice recording and more. The result can be published as a web page (HTML) or exported as standalone EXE file, which can be played on any Windows computer.

Advanced Effect Maker enables you to create Flash and JavaScript effects like slide shows, message applets, scrollers, games, site navigation menus and more without the need for any programming. You can simple select the effect and customize the parameters by filling in the text or links, changing colors, fonts and more. The result can be previewed in your browser at any time, and the complete code is ready to be inserted into your web page. The program includes some cool effects, including a Matrix type page effect, several navigation menus, a small puzzle game, an image slideshow and more. All of them are very easy to configure. The free version contains contains 40 customizable effects, about half of them include a credit (`Applet by Mandormatis`) that is displayed briefly when the effect loads. Other versions with more effects are available for purchase.

swf2avi allows you to convert Flash movies into AVI videos or a series of BMP images. In addition, you can select a sequence of BMP or JPG files and convert them into an AVI video. swf2avi can be used for batch processing from the command line.