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Drgrinder
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February 10, 2011
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Actionscript 3 - slideshow - to external file

  • February 10, 2011
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Hey guys.

Having an online swf doing some slideshow with loaded pictures from an xml filme, how can I, after building the slideshow with some transitions, export the result movie into a flv/mov/* file?

I know how you can get pictures from a xml file into flash and then proceed to build the slideshow (showing, of course, the swf in the page).

What I need is a somewhat hidden swf that would process this pictures and then export the movie into a folder.

Can this be accomplished?

Example:

-> user uploads pictures

-> user click preview movie

-> pictures are loaded into the flash file

-> movie is built

-> final file is saved into some folder

-> user is warned about the movie being done and read to download

Thank you very much

Ricardo

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Kenneth Kawamoto
Community Expert
Kenneth KawamotoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2011

I have briefly looked at this in the past - there are server-side SWF to video tools (e.g. http://www.moyeamedia.com/swf-to-video/ ) so this should be doable as long as the tool actually does what it says it does on the box

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moccamaximum
Inspiring
February 10, 2011

you can`t render a fla file serverside, so you are stuck with the swf you have already. Also you wouldn`t want to give the user the opportunity to write large files on your server (and Videofiles can get pretty big). What you would want to do is the following: Writing an AIR application that the user can download and using the free VLC Player to render predefined parts of the screen (the browser-window where his custom slideshow plays) directly on his own harddrive.

Since AIR 2 you can control nativeProcesses on the users computer: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/air_screenrecording.html

But -to be honest- the resulting quality won`t be mind-blowing, in any case at best 30-50% of the original swf. It`s probably a waste of your time.

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