Posted: 8/16/2010 11:54:50 PM EDT
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Im working on a website and it has a flash movie embedded. I do not know how to use the shockwave/flash software. I downloaded a trial version because I am pretty good at learning on the fly. What I found though is when I try to open the movie in the software it says it is copyright protected. Any way around this? Or is it easy enough for me to throw a similar one together real quick? It looks like I will have maybe 10 + hours in this project if I try to learn it and do it myself, ouch! Any help appreciated. |
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Quoted: What does the flash movie "do"? What exactly are you trying to do with it? Did you download the Adobe flash development system or something else? I downloaded the software 30 day trial from Adobe. Are you a guru?  Ill show you what Im up to through IM if you can help me.ETA: I also downloaded a trial of Swish. I could open it in there but it seems somewhat convoluted and I couldn't correlate what the original movie was showing and the files inside. |
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I occasionally work with flash, but would not consider myself a guru.
Do you have the .fla file or only the .swf file? If you have the .fla file, you should be able to load that into the Adobe software. If you only have the swf file, there are aftermarket SWF Decompilers (for example, one of them is from a company called Sothink) that can take apart an swf file and turn it into raw actionscript (which is a lot like javascript) and graphical objects and the like. Depending on how complicated the actionscript is, you may be able to read and understand it (and load it into the Adobe software, make changes to it, and rebuild the swf), or it may turn into a horribly complicated mess... |
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Quoted: I occasionally work with flash, but would not consider myself a guru. Do you have the .fla file or only the .swf file? If you have the .fla file, you should be able to load that into the Adobe software. If you only have the swf file, there are aftermarket SWF Decompilers (for example, one of them is from a company called Sothink) that can take apart an swf file and turn it into raw actionscript (which is a lot like javascript) and graphical objects and the like. Depending on how complicated the actionscript is, you may be able to read and understand it (and load it into the Adobe software, make changes to it, and rebuild the swf), or it may turn into a horribly complicated mess... With what you are describing to me this makes sense. I have the SWF file. I checked out Sothink and didnt seem to understand the file structure when I pulled it in. I need the .fla file to make an swf file. makes sense I think. |