Three ways to help you play swf file on mac and windows

When you get a swf file you will find it is hard to play swf file on mac and windows. What can you do? There are 3 way to help you play swf file.

1. Play with Adobe Flash Player.
SWF stands for Shockwave Flash (or later to be known as small wave format). Swf files are generated typically with adobe flash. Flash used to be owned by Macromedia, which later was adapted and bought by Adobe. So to view swf file you just need to install the Adobe Flash Player on your computer then you can play swf file.

Tip: The Adobe Flash Player is a multimedia and application player originally developed by Macromedia and acquired by Adobe Systems. It plays SWF files, which can be created by Apache Flex, or a number of other Adobe Systems and 3rd party tools. It has support for a scripting language called ActionScript, which can be used to display Flash Video from an SWF file.

2. Play a swf video with the browser.
Right click your .swf file choose "open with". Choose Firefox (provided adobe flash is installed into firefox).
If you don't know if you have adobe flash installed into firefox, just try to play any video from youtube. If you can then it's working. If you don't have firefox you might be able to use another browser like opera, chrome or Internet exploder.

3. Convert swf video to other format.
Doremisoft SWF video converter is the software that can help you convert swf file to other foramt like AVI, MPEG, WMV, MKV, MOV, M4V, DV, RM, FLV, 3GP, MP4, and so on. After converted, you can import the converted video into Quicktime, Windows Media Player, etc. for playing. For mac user you can choose to convert swf to mp4 mac.

Follow the steps to convert swf to mp4:
First, click "Select File" to add swf videos from your local disk, or click "Grab swf" to download swf files from the web page.

Then set MP4 as output formats. Click "Next" button to Option interface, and choose MP4 as the output format from the drop list of Output Format.

After that press "Next" and click "Start" to convert SWF to MP4. All the conversion process will cost you seconds.

This converter will do lots of conversion for you, you can use it to convert swf to avi, convert swf to mpeg, convert swf to mov and convert swf to mkv. After converted, you can enjoy them everywhere. Have fun.

Convert swf file to avi/wmv/mpeg for inserting into PowerPoint

Are you a student? Are you a office worker? Are you always use PowerPoint or Keynote? How much do you know about PowerPoint?

Have you ever used PowerPoint to make a presentation? PowerPoint provides numerous features that offers flexibility and the ability to create a professional presentation. One of the features provides the ability to create a presentation that includes music which plays throughout the entire presentation or sound effects for particular slides. In addition to the ability to add sound files, the presentation can be designed to run, like a movie, on its own.

Besides, you also can insert a video into the presentation. Inserting a video clip (also called movie clips or files) or adding sound to a slide can add interest to your presentation, To insert the video into presentation you just need:
1.On the Insert menu, point to Movies and Sounds, and then click Movie from File.
2.Select the movie file in the Insert Movie dialog box, and then click the OK button.

The video foramt that can insert into PowerPoint including .asf, .avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .wmv. Because of the video fomat, there will occur some problem like:
"I have a bunch of Shockwave (SWF) files I'd like to insert into a PowerPoint or other presentation show I will make. PowerPoint doesn't seem to accept SWF. Does anyone know a free program I can use to convert these SWF files? Thanks."

Yes, swf file can not imported into PowerPoint, so if you need to insert swf into your presentation you should convert the swf file to the format that is supported by it.

From here, you will learn the method on how to convert swf to avi then insert into your presentation. The tool you need is SWF video converter. This converter can help you convert swf file to other format you like.

You can follow the steps bellow to convert swf file, if you are a mac user you also can convert swf to avi mac with a swf converter for mac, if you are using keynote, you can choose to convert swf to keynote supported format.

Step 1: Install swf video converter into your computer, then click "Select File" button to load SWF files need to convert from your laptop.

Step 2(optional): If you need to customize your video you can click "Crop" button to adjust parameters or crop the image frame of the video to delete the unwanted areas.

Step 3: Choose AVI as Output format. Click "Next" button to the Option interface, choose AVI as the output format.
In this step, you can choose to convert swf to mpeg and swf to wmv for inserting into your presentation.

Step 4: Start converting SWF to AVI
Press "Next" and hit "Start" button to begin convert SWF to AVI. You can stop at anytime to view the converted video.