There was a time when SWF videos were practically everywhere online – consisting of short cartoons or even full-fledged shows. Nowadays it is still possible to watch these videos online if you have the right plugin, but generally you won’t be able to save them so that you can watch them later or share them with others.
Assuming that is what you want to do then you should use Movavi Screen Capture to record the SWF video that you want to save from your screen. Once you do you’ll be able to save it in any video format, making it more widely compatible in the process too. In short, Movavi Screen Capture will act as a SWF to video converter of sorts.
If you’re going to use Movavi Screen Capture to record and save a SWF video, you’ll need to set it up to record that particular area of your screen. As soon as you enter the screen recorder you can do that, by clicking and dragging the mouse cursor to effectively ‘draw’ the frame. Don’t worry if it isn’t perfect the first time round, as you can always tug at its edges later to resize it.
Considering you undoubtedly will want to record the audio from the SWF video too it is vital that you make sure Movavi Screen Capture records the system audio. By default it will do so, but all you need to do is double-check to make sure that the appropriate icon is highlighted.
That should take care of everything that is required and whenever you are ready you can play your SWF video and start the recording at the same time with the on-screen controls. It is worth noting that there is a short delay before it starts recording, so you’ll want to take that into account. At any point you can pause the recording or stop it when you’re done with the on-screen controls, but if you prefer you can use the hotkeys in Movavi Screen Capture to control the recording instead.
Once you do stop recording, the SWF video that you recorded will automatically be saved as a MKV file. Assuming you’re okay with that you need not do anything else, but if you’d prefer it to be in another format you can choose to save it as such or use one of the presets in Movavi Screen Capture to automatically optimize it for a device or platform instead.
In any case you should end up with a saved version of the SWF video that you can watch even if you’re offline. Because it will be in a regular video format you should have no trouble playing it on any of your devices, which will be that much more convenient.