It's not particularly user friendly though.

http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

It does look a little complicated, though. It's the only one I've seen that lists .swf as an input source. But I'll have to launch Windows 7...I installed it on my Mac a few weeks ago in order to run my wife's crazy sewing machine, but we've never actually booted it up yet. This ought to be interesting!

Have a try with Jihosoft SWF Converter for Mac, although it is not free, but you may satisfy with the conversion result.

FLA is a Flash - Video Container. SWF can be looked at as an application. One of the features of the application is to display audio and video from a contained file.

Rather than "converting" to FLV, you may want to look at something like a SWF Extractor. An extractor can rip-out the contained video and audio (usually MP3 for audio and MP4 for Audio/Video) and write it to a file. Then that file format can be converted, or placed directly into an FLV container.

Most of the so called "SWF to Video Converters" are to capture the animations created in an SWF file.. like some of those interactive games and ads that move sprites around over a timeline, by way of Flash and ActionScript. If all you want to do is play a video file, look for a ripper/extractor.

Hope this helps.

and pretty much converts anything to anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
http://www.ffmpeg.org/

check it out on sourceforge.net

Hello Atman,
Have you tried the SWF to FLV converter from moyea?
http://www.swfkits.com/swf-to-flv-converter/ (for PC)
http://www.swfkits.com/swf-converter-mac/ (for Mac)

The windows version works good on my computer.

freemake.com

Sorry, but I haven't figured out how to insert a link using my ipad.

Freemake is a one-touch converter. I love it. They also have a free downloader for youtube, vimeo, etc.

Check this guide: How to convert SWF to FLV

I suppose it's a career thing, so it'd be tax deductible. But damn...that's steep for a one-trick pony!

bvcsoft swf to flv converter works great.I'm using it.also support swf volume normalizer with high quality.

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I use AppGeeker video converter (www.appgeeker.com) for transcoding always. Should work well for your requirement.

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I love flash, I always make some flash animations, to convert swf to flv you can see this firecoresoft.com/convert-swf/convert-swf-to-flv.html
If you choose to record the video, I did not try this.

Also I never click on links if I can't see where they are taking me... some of these sites are all malware just FYI.

Atman,

Did any of these work for you? I too have a bunch of decade-old animations -- fla's and swf's -- that I can't get converted into a format that youtube will take.

Teppy

other formats work well.
It's free so worth giving it a try.
http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_convert_video_to_flash_swf_flv

You may also follow this step by step guide to batch convert .swf to .flv on Mac or Windows computer

This guide can not only convert SWF to FLV, but also supports converting SWF to MP4, SWF to AVI, SWF to MOV, SWF to MKV, WMV, ASF, WebM, MXF, DV, RM, MPEG, etc.

It even can extract audio from SWF container and then save the extracted audio files into like convert SWF to MP3, WAV, AAC, M4A, AC3, DTS, CAF, AIFF, and FLAC and so on famous audio formats.

In this case, you can enjoy SWF files on almost all kinds of popular players and portable devices like iTunes, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, iPhone, iPod, iPad, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, BlackBerry and so on.

SWF is also the flash video format as FLV and they can be used in some common situations. But SWF is less famous than FLV; many people are not familiar with the video format. So, when someone gets some SWF videos even share them on YouTube, he would like to convert the videos to FLV just by intuition. Then, how to convert SWF to FLV? I'm sure some top free video converters are pretty helpful. If you don't want to install the 3rd party software, you may make a search about free online video converter via Google. I don't think this is a problem nowadays.