How to Convert Flash SWF to HTML5 Videos?

Flash SWF has made a great contribution to Web development. The vivid animated banners and videos are most in Flash SWF format. Anyway, have you found that recently HTML5 has boosted the Web development? HTML5 is predicted to replace Flash SWF in terms of Web design since HTML5 seems to be much friendlier than SWF which requires Flash plug-ins. Many browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Safari have embedded HTML5, which means these browsers are able to play videos although have no flash plug-ins installed.

Therefore, if you are going to embed videos to your webpage to make it more vivid and attractive, we suggest you to make it HTML5 video instead of Flash SWF video, which will save you from much trouble. If you have already got some Flash SWF videos, you might as well change them to HTML5 videos. There is much software able to do that for you on the market. Just search “convert SWF to HTML5 video”, or “SWF Converter for Mac”, or “SWF To HTML5” on Google, you can find some available and related programs.

If you want to save time from searching on the internet, you can take our advice here. Among many SWF converting software, we found iOrgSoft SWF Converter for Mac is a comparatively simple and useful one. (As we know iOrgSoft offers Windows version of this software) This software is mainly able to convert SWF to other video formats including HTML5 videos as well as crop file and add watermark. It sounds the software provides fewer features. However, sometimes, less is more, especially for those who are novices.

This program features concise and logical interface which leads users to the right step or tool conveniently. Let’s see what it looks like:

From the main interface, we see six functional buttons-“Select File”, “Grab SWF”, “Crop”, “Profile”, settings icon, and convert icon. What a pity, so far, the “Grab” feature is not available, which means, users can only convert native SWF before a further update.

To add a native SWF file, users can click “Select File” button or directly drag and drop file to the screen. Optionally, users can crop the imported file by clicking the “Crop” button. Users can not only remove unwanted area of the file in the “Crop” interface, but also add watermark.

Where to get the output format? Go for the “Profile” list to find the output format list where you can find HTML5 video formats. The SWF Converter for Mac can only read SWF format but it can write a host of file formats. Find out the output formats from the table below:

We can see that there are Device and Application options. To let users get the right output format more quickly, it tailors the output formats by Device and Application. There are Audio output formats on the table. This software is able to extract soundtrack from SWF video. In fact, it also supports image formats including JPG, BMP, PNG, and GIF.

Another feature of the software that you have to know is it can record SWF games. If the imported SWF file is an Interactive game, users are allowed to play it during the conversion. And the process will be converted too. Users can upload Flash SWF game tutorial videos then.