{"id":119,"date":"2013-05-15T20:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2013-05-15T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:51:24","slug":"dealing-with-odd-files-like-mpg-mp4-powerpoint-animated-gifs-flash-swf-flv-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/dealing-with-odd-files-like-mpg-mp4-powerpoint-animated-gifs-flash-swf-flv-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with odd files like: .mpg, .mp4, Powerpoint, Animated GIF&#8217;s, Flash .swf .flv .fla"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>My secret weapon: The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC player<\/a> and screen recording software like <a title=\"screenflow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telestream.net\/screenflow\/overview.htm\">Screenflow<\/a> or <a title=\"screen recording\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/camtasia.html\">Camtasia<\/a>\u00a0to make files into a Quicktime movie.<br \/>\n<strong>Flash<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/flash\/kb\/edit-import-swf-file-flash.html\">Read this to learn what an .swf file is.<\/a><br \/>\nWhen you receive .swf flies to use in an edit, ask the developer for the .fla files. Or better ask them to export a Quicktime in dimensions and frame rate of your edit to avoid\u00a0alignment errors.\u00a0Flash is vector based so in most situations it can be resized without getting pixelated. This is especially important when something was created for the web and now has to be sized up for broadcast.<br \/>\nThe .fla file is the editable project file that was used to create the .swf file, it also holds the audio. When you re-import a .swf into Flash the audio does not get imported.<br \/>\n2 steps to pull audio and video from a .swf<br \/>\n1.\u00a0VLC and screen recording software to record the audio.<br \/>\n2. <a href=\"www.adobe.com\/Flash\">Flash app (download free trial)<\/a>\u00a0to export the animation. Change the stage-color to black (or ignore stage and make Alpha) and use the Quicktime settings to match the dimensions and frame rate of your timeline.<br \/>\n.flv are flash video files that most software can import.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.squared5.com\">MPEG Streamclip<\/a> and VLC also open it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My secret weapon: The\u00a0VLC player and screen recording software like Screenflow or Camtasia\u00a0to make files into a Quicktime movie. Flash Read this to learn what an .swf file is. When you receive .swf flies to use in an edit, ask the developer for the .fla files. Or better ask them to export a Quicktime in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/dealing-with-odd-files-like-mpg-mp4-powerpoint-animated-gifs-flash-swf-flv-etc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dealing with odd files like: .mpg, .mp4, Powerpoint, Animated GIF&#8217;s, Flash .swf .flv .fla&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-premiere-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.editspecialists.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}