Sunday, March 10, 2013

How to Convert SWF File to AVI on Mac/Windows 8

What is an AVI File? 
Audio Video Interleaved, known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduces by Microsoft as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.

Advantages of AVI Files 

  • Choice of codecs means you can achieve a high rare compression if you experiment. 
  • AVI can play in mainstream media players such as Windows Media Player. 
  • AVI can be used as a starting point to create playable DVDs. 


Converting flash SWF files to AVI videos currently is a hot topic. Many users get into the need to change their SWF into AVI file format, so that they can import SWF to popular applications like Windows Movie Maker. Under this situation, AST SWF Video Converter could be assist. It is a handy utility which can convert SWF to AVI with ease. Now let’s see how this powerful tool works:

This SWF to AVI Converter can convert SWF to AVI on both Windows 8 and Mac OS. Here this article takes SWF Video Converter for Mac as example to show the step by step guide.


Step 1: Download the latest version of SWF to AVI Converter for Mac. Install it on your Mac computer.

Step 2: Launch this Mac SWF Video Converter on your desktop. Click “Source” to import flash SWF file that you need to convert to AVI.

Step 3: From the drop-down list of “Codec”, select “AVI” as the output format. You can adjust the video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, etc.

Step 4: Click “Capture”, a Record window will pop up. Then click “Start” to start converting SWF to AVI. You can stop at any time as you like.

Step 5: When finished conversion, the program will show you the output folder, click “Open” to view the created AVI video.

Video Tutorial of How to Convert SWF File to AVI on Windows 8:

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