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How to Remaster your SWF files in HD and add Flare!

Posted by mohawkade - August 18th, 2011


Sure, some of you may be already thinking that you can use an SWF to Avi converter to do that. Which is fine, there's nothing wrong with that. But the thing I found with generic SWF to AVI converters is that they don't antialias your images very well. Meaning diagonal lines look very jagged.

Well I picked up a trial of After Effects to learn how to do some stereoscopic wizardry, and to my surprise, it actually imports SWF files! And not only can you add and resize your video in any resolution you want, but After Effects will automatically antialias it for you...

Unless you like jagged lines, which is cool... I guess, if you're going for a pixelated look.

And not to mention all the other cool things you can do with After-Effects to add to the look of your flash.

The following videos are some of my old projects remastered with After-Effects if you wish to view the results.

Warning: if you wish to try this, you may notice the lines on some of the characters are still pretty large, which can be a bit of an annoyance if you made your cartoon in a smaller resolution then blew it up.

Oh and lots of new content due out in October, a couple of animations and some more artwork. I'm also going to try and see if I can figure out a way to make SWF cartoons in Stereoscopic 3D before my trial expires.

Anyways, comment your opinion on whether you might consider this method or if there's a SWF to AVI converter that you'd prefer highly over After Effects.


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Nice! ... i'd get after effects if i wasn't so scared of Flash CS5.

Yeah, I'm definitely regretting that transition...

although you still can use After Effects CS5 without having to got to Flash CS5. Just drag and drop your old SWF file straight into a new composition and go NUTS!

Ah very interesting. I'll try this out later, thanks!

Glad to contribute!

It's a pretty handy technique, especially when combining Flash animated characters with After Effects effect stuff. Though the downside for using it with animations is movie clip animations won't work and you'll need to have a seperate audio file for the movie to import with it.

Are you sure? I had a video file play in the background of Link in my "Cooler than Coat Hangers" SWF animation which, obviously, still worked pretty well. But then again, I did have to convert it to FLV format to get flash to accept it.

Also it's a fun fact to know that some of the animators behind Metalocalypse use flash and export the projects to after effects to add some further razzle-dazzle!

I'm using the swf to video converter from Moyea, it seems good.
It's site:
<a href="http://www.swfkits.com/">http://www.swfkits.com/</a>

Wha? $1500 for the pro version? That better be a damned good program!