I’m currently working on an AIR app that will load a SWF, take screen grabs at a selected interval and then load the screen grabs back in and allow you to scrub back and forth through them.
The main purpose for this is that many things my coworkers and I do at RT is entirely dynamic and code based with very little on the timeline. This app allows for selecting a specific frame in any SWF, code or timeline based, and for playing back the animation many times repeatedly.
A side benefit to the app is that when creating backup GIFs for banner ads, if you run your banner through this app, will spit out cropped captures of your banner ad and may speed up the most boring part of banner ad creation.
If you’re feeling daring you can install this alpha version of SWF Capture and see how it works
I’ve got a lot of features left to build in but this does the basics.
Also, if you’re interested I’ve got my Flapture FLV Capture toolavailable too. It automates one screen grab per FLV for a folder full of FLVs and was how I learned the basics of AIR.
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Hi Julian,
Your SWF Capture app sounds interesting and useful to me. I’m coming at it from the banner QA/testing side. When we test large banner campaigns, it would be great to automate the capture of these images – I assume it’s grabbing them in JPG format?
I’m a complete AIR noob (worse really!) but I’d like to check this out. What do I need to setup to try your app?
Many thanks! -Scott
[Scott, your best bet is to go to http://get.adobe.com/air/ and install the AIR runtime. After that come back here and download and install my AIR app from the link above. It actually grabs the images in PNG format because I want as little compression as possible incase I need to actually use the images for anything (like building backup GIFs - JK]
Great – I’ll do that.
BTW, have you seen Thibault Imbert’s AMFPHP Live JPEG Encoder:
http://www.bytearray.org/?p=90
Thanks! -Scott
Hello Julian,
I installed AIR (v1.5) and get the following error trying to install/run your app:
“This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.”
Does the app need to be recompiled to work with this version of AIR?
Thanks, Scott
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