This morning I was surfing CNN, and I happen to go to the cartoon animation section of the website. The cartoon was on political satire. The cartoon was so funny I wanted to save it and pass it along to my friend. I was unable to do this because the presentation was in Macromedia Flash.
I started to do some research on the web. Being a computer scientist, I notice the extension of the file was SWF. I started searching in Google for SWF saver. I found a myriad of them. The one I thought was the best was from BumperSoft. Flash Saver 5.0 did exactly what I needed. However I had a problem afterwords. I had to find an SWF to AVI convert. I found a converter from SWF2Converter. Finally I was able to view this with a Windows Media player, but the clip did not contain sound. I continued looking for a free converter. I must have looked thru 20 different sites, and installed about 10 or so different converters, and every single one of them had a limitation or trial period. Each of them require that you pay a certain amount. The range was $19 to $199. If you can live with the water drop mark on the video clip, or the limited time trial, then utilization of the different shareware SWF to AVI converter is not an issue.
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