How Can You Edit SWF in iMovie 11 on Mac (OSX 10.9)?

Question: I’ve been searching for a way to edit a flash animation (.swf) file into iMovie 11 on Mavericks. I want to edit the file before sharing on Facebook. Can anyone give me a suggestion?

What is SWF?

SWF, an Adobe Flash file format, has made a great contribution to web development. It is the commonly used format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web. And it is also used for programs. Have you been addicted to browser games which use ActionScript? Yes, SWF is commonly used for browser games too. It is because SWF can provide interaction that it is popular on the web.

SWF is popular on the web, but it is not the same case when offline. Since it requires flash player to play the SWF videos, users have encountered great trouble when trying to view downloaded SWF files on various media players and apps. That’s the reason why users suffer obstacle when trying to view and edit SWF content in iMovie 11 on Mac OSX 10.9.

How to play and edit SWF in iMovie 11 on Mavericks then? The easiest method is to convert SWF to iMovie supported formats. iMovie supported video formats include: 3GP,MOV and MP4, M4V, H.264, AVCHD, DV. So, you can convert SWF to MP4/MOV/3GP, etc with a third party.

It is very easy to accomplish .swf conversion if you have a professional SWF conversion program. The following paragraphs will show you how to change SWF to MP4 Mac with iOrgSoft SWF Converter Mac.

Note: We choose the iOrgSoft SWF Converter Mac as the helper because we think it is an easy-to-use tool for most people (even the novices). And though it looks simple, it can do the .swf conversion and do it well, which is the most important thing, so we pick it for you.

 Step1. Download and Run the Program

First of all, you need to download the SWF Converter. You can download it here: http://www.iorgsoft.com/Download/SWFConverterForMac1.2.5.dmg. It is very easy to install the program.

Step2. Import SWF File

You can directly drag and drop the .swf file to the program or you can click “Select File” to browse and add file. You are only allowed to add one file at one time.

Step3. Choose MP4 as Output Format

Go to the “Profile” option list to choose output format. You can see there are many output formats available. And there are optimized profile for specific devices and apps. So, you can see “iMovie” column. Just go to the “iMovie” column to choose the MP4 format.

Step4. Crop (Optional)

Optionally, you can remove the unwanted area like the black edges by cropping. And also, you can add image watermark in the “Crop” interface.

Step5. Start Conversion

Press the round button to enter the Convert interface where you can play and start the conversion. If your .swf file is a SWF game, you can play the game while converting. And the program will record and convert the whole process.

How to Play Flash SWF Videos on Nokia Lumia 1520?

If you are looking for a Windows Phone mobile, check out the Nokia Lumia 1520. The Lumia 1520 owns a 6-inch Full HD display, a 20-megapixel camera, and a 2.2GHz quad-core processor. It is regarded as the most technologically advanced Nokia phone.

If you love to watch movies on phones, the Nokia Lumia 1520 is absolutely a great choice for you. Its bold Full HD display makes itself an amazing device for movies on the move. But it has limitation on video playback. It only supports MP4, WMV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, and MOV. So, if you want to play flash SWF videos on the phone, you might be disappointed.

Though we can’t watch animated SWF videos directly on the phone, we can view them by converting SWF to a more convenient video format. It is a good way to convert SWF to WMV/MOV/AVI/MP4, etc for the Nokia Lumia 1520. In the following paragraphs, you will learn how to convert SWF to Nokia Lumia 1520.

To start with, you need a SWF video conversion tool to be your assistant. iOrgSoft SWF to Video Converter is the tool we are going to use to demonstrate how to do the SWF conversion. The program is especially designed to convert SWF to commonly used video formats including MOV, MP4, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, M4V, WMV, MKV, DV, MPG, etc. You can find the Nokia Lumia 1520 supported video formats available on the program. Let’s get started once you get ready with the program.

After you run the program, you firstly need to import the SWF video to it. You can load the local SWF video either by clicking the “Select File” button or by dragging and dropping them directly. You can play the imported SWF file in the video preview window.

And then you need to choose the output format. To select a suitable output format, you should click the “Profile” option list to get the output formats list. The output format list is grouped by device and format. That is to say, if you are converting SWF to Nokia Lumia 1520, you can choose MP4/MOV/WMV, etc either from the universal profile or from the Windows Phone column.

Note: Since the tool we are using supports to output audio and image format, you can convert SWF to audio formats like MP3, AAC, AC3, AIFF, M4A, AMR, etc, and to image formats like BMP, PNG, JPEG and GIF.

To move on, optionally, you can crop the file and add watermark to it as well as adjust the output parameters. To do cropping and to add watermark, you can click the “Crop” button to achieve them. To adjust output settings, you can click the settings icon next to the “Profile” option list to enter the setting window where video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and audio channels, sample rate, bit rate, are available to be adjusted.

Finally, you can start conversion. To get conversion started, you just need to press the large and round button to enter the convert interface where you can find the “Start” and “Play” button and “Duration”. You can stop the conversion any time according to the duration time and then you can get a certain converted segment.

Note: The iOrgSoft SWF to Video Converter is also able to record SWF game played process. So, if you SWF file is an interactive game, you can play it while converting it. Meanwhile, the process can be recorded and converted. You will get a tutorial video finally.

You will find the conversion very easy with the tool. Only 5 steps at most can you finish the whole thing and then you can freely enjoy your SWF video on the excellent Nokia Lumia 1520.

iOS Apps Help Keep Your Home Clean and Tidy in New Year Holiday

Want to keep your home clean and tidy in New Year holiday? How about hiring a professional cleaning service? Don’t want to have strangers around the house and don’t want to spend too much on this? Well, you can’t miss the iOS apps that we are going to introduce to you to keep your apartment neat in New Year.

HomeRoutines

HomeRoutines offers you a very thorough list of cleaning tasks for any part of your apartment. My.HomeRoutines is one of the helpful features of the app. This app is going to split your home into 5 zones and well arrange tasks for each zone. By this, you won’t forget to clean some areas that are easily overlooked. And it allows you to create an account to back up your data as well as to edit it on HomeRoutine site. Additionally, this app supports to sync across various devices so that users are able to share their account with families and roommates. Furthermore, HomeRoutines enables you to create to-do lists. Also, once you create a to-do list, you can also set to rotate those tasks by day or week.

Download from App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/homeroutines/id353117370?mt=8

Chorma

Are you living with sloppy roommates? If you do, you should try the Chorma which will help you create lists of repeating chores and then arrange for your roommates. Your roommates can show their progress on Chorma. And in case that someone slacks off, it is a great idea to create individual or group rewards redeemable when all tasks are created. But only when you subscribe to Chroma Pro for $1.99 per month can you use this function.

Download from App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/chorma-for-chores/id590954566?mt=8

Unfuck Your Habitat

Unfilth Your Habitat is our favorite chore app. It can mainly create personal list of house cleaning, overcome the difficulties of different rooms, and it is built in a timer which allows you to balance labors and breaks. For example, it can balance 20-minute unfucking sprees with 10 minute breaks. In addition, it encourages you to share your hardworking with your friends via Facebook. It lets you to share the before-and-after photos of real homes. We regard it as our favorite is because it can motivate the lazy guys by the Random Unfucking Motivation button by verbally sayings like “my nana would be so ashamed of you” or “nice ass. Now get off it.” If you get a lazy roommate around house, you might as well get this app to motivate him/her to do the chores.

Download from App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/unfilth-your-habitat/id542909191?mt=8

New Year Giveaway-iOrgSoft SWF Converter Mac Full Version Licenses

This is the first Giveaway for the easy-techtalk blog visitors. Thanks for your participation and interest. And thanks for iOrgSoft.com offering 5 free full version licenses of SWF Converter Mac for this giveaway. 5 lucky Mac visitors will win the free key of the iOrgSoft SWF Converter for Mac. Of course, if you are not Mac users, you can also win it for your friends using Mac.

Why Use SWF Converter?

Like FLV, SWF is also a Flash format, which is usually for multimedia, ActionScript and vector graphics. It has made a great contribution to web development. It is because SWF format contains animation and offers interaction that many web developers prefers embedding SWF files into the web. Those sharp and vivid web banners, pop-up advertisements and popular mini games, etc are most in SWF format. However, SWF files can only be played with Flash plug-ins and Flash Player. But Adobe has ceased support for Android and iOS which means it is very difficult to play SWF files on those portable devices which are part of our life now. That’s the reason why we need SWF Converter to convert SWF to a format that is supported by our devices.

What is iOrgSoft SWF Converter Mac?

iOrgSoft SWF Converter Mac specializes in converting SWF to another common used format that is compatible with a device or app unable to play SWF. It supports only SWF format on input side but a large range of video/audio/image formats on output side, like FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, OGG, OGV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, APE, GIF, JPEG, etc. It has optimized the profile by popular devices and apps. So no matter you are using iPhone, iPad, or Samsung Galaxy S4, Note 3, BlackBerry, etc, you can convert SWF to them.

Additionally, it allows you to do simple editing on it, including cropping and watermark.

Furthermore, you are allowed to customize the output settings in order to make the converted file better display on your devices.

Besides, if your swf file is a mini game with interactive button, you can play the game during conversion. And what’s amazing is the process of your playing game will be recorded and converted at the same time. If you tend to upload a tutorial video to show how to play the game, this software is good option. By the way, speaking of video uploading, SWF is not supported by most video sharing website like YouTube, so, you can choose to convert SWF to Web share and start recording and converting.

iOrgSoft Mac SWF Converter is $99.95 in the market. But now iOrgSoft offers 5 free licenses of it. You can’t miss this chance. How to win the free licenses? So easy. As long as you answer the questions below and leave your email address in the comment box, you will get the chance to win. Since the number of the free licenses is very limited, we will select 5 of those who have answered questions at random to be winners. We will announce the winner on January 23, 2014. It could be you! Just take you a few minutes to answer the questions and you can win the chance to save $99.95. Good Luck!

Questions:

1. For what you use SWF Converter Mac for?
2. Have you used SWF Converter? If you have, when converting a SWF, what problems did you encountered? And were you satisfied with the software you used?
3. What do you expect from a SWF Converter?

How to Extract Audio File from a Video?

Under some circumstances, we have a need to extract audio file from videos. Here are some examples:

1. We need the audio in video to be the music background of our projects.

2. We need the audio in video to make personal phone ringtone.

3. We are learning a foreign language and want to extract the audio file from a tutorial video and then listen to the audio with portable devices anytime anywhere.

To extract soundtrack from a video, you can use a professional audio extractor. Additionally, you can use video converter too since many video converters are able to convert video to audio too with abundant audio formats like MP3, MP2, M4A, WMA, WAV, AMR, AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, etc. Let’s see which tool we can use to rip audio.

First, we have professional iOrgSoft Audio Extractor which mainly does audio conversion. This audio converter supports video and audio formats as input and but only supports audio formats as output. Supported audio output formats include APE, MP3, MP2, MKA, AMR, AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, WMA, WAV, and M4A. With this software, you can convert video to audio, or convert an audio to a more compatible format.

Secondly, we got Video Converter. As its name implies, it is able to do video conversion and do it well. And built in audio formats, it can also convert an audio to another format that fits well into your devices and extract soundtrack from video for various use.

Like the Audio Extractor, it supports a large amount of audio formats. As for video, it supports regular standard video formats like AVI, WMV, MPG, MP4, H.264/AVC, RM, FLV, 3GP etc and camcorder recording formats like AVCHD, MTS, XAVC, MOD, TOD, etc on input side, and SWF, AVI, WMV, MP4, DV, MKV, MOV, OGG, OGV, WebM, etc on output side. So, it gives you the ability to control over your video and audio files. No matter you are converting AVI to MP4, SWF to MP3, or FLV to AAC, etc, you can handle it with ease.

Besides, it is also a video downloader and editor which is able to download online video for immediate conversion in batch and edit them with abundant editing tools like Trim, Crop, Rotate, Effect (3D included), Watermark, Audio Fade in/out, etc.

No matter which conversion program you use from above, you can convert video to audio. If you want more than converting video to audio, we suggest you use the Video Converter.