<p><em>&#8220;I sometimes come across <a href="https://www.yekmobile.com">Flash animations online</a> that I really like, so I save them to my hard drive. Lately though, I have gotten to thinking that it would be cool if I could edit them in FCP or Premiere into some of my own movies or something.&#8221;</em></p>
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<p><em>&#8220;I did some .swf files using Adobe Flash on Win, and also saved them as MX files so that they can be read in school&#8217;s lab. What I don&#8217;t know is how to get these into iMovie &#8211; any suggestions?&#8221;</em></p>
<p>As is known to all, the .swf file can only be editted in Adobe Flash with the source .fla file provided. If you don&#8217;t have the .fla file, even Adobe Flash cannot edit the file, let alone other video editors like iMovie, FCP or Adobe Premiere, etc. since they don&#8217;t accept .swf format. Therefore, if you want to edit .swf video in iMovie/FCP/Premiere, you have to transcode SWF to ProRes 422 MOV or convert SWF to MP4 video formats which are accepted by the editors.</p>
<p>To handle the conversion, you can use Firecoresoft Mac SWF Converter. Given here is the step-by-step tutorial on the conversion:</p>
<p>Step 1: Install and launch the Mac SWF Converter, then click &#8220;Select File&#8221; to load SWF video files to the converter.</p>
<p>Step 2: Choose ProRes 422 MOV as the output format for FCP. You can also choose MOV, MPEG-4, H.264 etc as output format for iMovie from the list of &#8220;Profile >; iMovie >; MPEG-4&#8221;.</p>
<p>Step 3: Now click the &#8220;Start&#8221; button and begin to convert SWF to MOV or MP4 on Mac.</p>
<p>When it is successfully converted, a pop-up windows will show you the destination of generated video. After that you can import the converted .swf file to iMovie, FCP or Premiere for editing freely.</p>