Convert your videos to Flash

Knowing how to convert video files to Flash is almost necessary nowadays, as Adobe’s video format is quickly becoming the dominant one on the net. Working as any other converter, Video2SWF has the advantage of outputting not only to swf but also to flv and html. It supports most of the video and audio formats out there, though we were disappointed to find out that audio mpeg was not handled.

Settings is probably where Video2SWF packs the most features. Not only can you select in and out points for your videos, but you can also add overlay, and a few filters. The program also has a choice of half a dozen different video controls to add to your video. If you work with multiple video files, you’ll be glad to know that you can batch convert them.

Performance is where Video2SWF underachieves, with pretty slow conversion speeds. We were also surprised that the application is not yet Universal Binary and still only available to PPC users.

Video2SWF is a flash converter with lots of extra settings but a tad slow in the conversion process.

Video2SWF is an extremely easy program to convert your video files into streaming Macromedia Flash files. Video2SWF is easy to use and is great for displaying your videos on websites, CD-ROMs, and presentations.

• Output Macromedia Flash movie files (SWF). Over 97% of all browsers already have the Flash Player installed, so you won’t have to worry about your audience being able to view your video.
• Output Macromedia Flash Video files (FLV).
• Output HTML files to quickly generate a web page to show your video.
• Output self-executables to run on Macintosh and Windows based computers.
• Supports video formats: .avi, .dv, .mov/.qt, .mpeg (video only), .mp4, .wmv (Mac requires Flip4Mac plugin)
• Supports audio formats: .aiff, .mp3, .wav
• Supports image formats: .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .pic, .png, .psd, .tga, .tiff
• Select your videos compression quality and key frame intervals.
• Add customizable players to add playback controls, sound controls, scrub bars, and more.
• Add on click actions to launch web pages or load other SWF movie files.
• Add overlays/watermarks to easily brand your Flash video.
• Apply filters such as brightness/contrast, sepia tone, and oil paint
• In and Out point editing to choose a section of a video to encode
• Batch convert multiple video files at once
• Save project files so you can save your work to allow you to make changes over time.