4 Tips You Need to Know about Flash SWF

SHENZHEN, China - June 26, 2013 - PRLog -- SWF files are really very popular and widely applied in many fields now. For example, we can find SWF contents almost everywhere on the Web. The applying of SWF files is an important element for designing web pages: banners, ads, videos, games, etc. often appear in SWF format. However, that doesn't mean SWF is almighty. There is still something we cannot do with the SWF files. Now let's check it out.

1) Play SWF Videos on Apple Devices
We know that Apple and Adobe never cooperate with each other in Flash, so there's not an Adobe Flash Player or any software that needs Flash plugin in all Apple devices including MacBook, iMac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV, etc. Therefore, these Apple devices are not able to play SWF videos directly. In addition, all the applications based on Mac OS and Apple iOS such as iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, FCP, QuickTime and so forth, cannot run SWF files as well. If we want to run SWF Flash files on these Apple devices and applications, we will need convert SWF to Apple-friendly video formats like converting SWF to iPad(http://www.swfvideoconverter.com/knowledge-base/play-swf-...).

2) Totally Replace JPG and GIF
When designing web pages, SWF, JPG, and GIF are the most used designing elements. Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, SWF files always meet a lot of problems with either the plugin player or the browser compatibility, while GIF will not have such problems. Thus, though SWF is versatile, it cannot totally replace JPG and GIF. In order to make full use of these three file format to make a web page richer, we sometimes need to convert SWF to JPG(http://www.swfvideoconverter.com/user-guide/convert-swf-t...) or to GIF, or vice verse.

3) Listen to SWF Music on MP3 Players
SWF is an adapted file based on Flash technology, so as kind of Flash file, it certainly contains video part and audio part. In fact, there are numerous fantastic SWF files that include only audio streams. That's mainly because SWF is smaller in size than MP3 format and fits uploading to the Web better. However, it is impossible for us to download the amazing SWF music and directly play them on our MP3 players. We will need to extract audio from SWF(http://www.swfvideoconverter.com/knowledge-base/extract-a...) Flash file beforehand.

4) Upload SWF Videos to YouTube
Although SWF is very similar to FLV and both of them are kind of Flash file, SWF videos cannot be uploaded to YouTube and other online video sharing websites like YouTube. These websites can only recognize FLV and a few other kinds of formats of videos, not including SWF. Therefore, if we want to share SWF videos online on YouTube, conversion between SWF to FLV is needed.

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