How to Import SWF Animation to FCE for Editing?

As of June 21, 2011, Final Cut Express is discontinued, in favor of Final Cut Pro X. However, there are still someone, just like me, using FCE.

Final Cut Express is a great video editing software, but it has input limits, that means, it can only support mov, dv, mp4, mpeg-2 etc formats video natively. So if you want to edit flash swf files with FCE, you will need to convert the SWF files to FCE supported video formats.

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SWF to Final Cut Express converter supports converting SWF files to FCE MOV, DV, MPEG-2, MP4 etc for importing Flash games to FCE, Flash SWF animation to FCE, Animated SWF video to Final Cut Express 4 on Mac os x 10.5-10.7 Lion.

Besides, SWF to FCE software can help grab and download SWF files from Web to Final Cut Express for editing and also allow you to crop and add watermark to SWF video before import SWF to FCE on Mac.

PS: If you want edit SWF onto Windows Movie Maker, please go to SWF Video Converter.

Then, Import SWF Movie to Final Cut Express Step by Step

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Step 1: Add SWF file
Select file: if you have the SWF file on desktop, please click "select file" to import the SWF file from your Mac.
Grab file: If you want to add SWF files from website such as YouTube, Hulu, etc, you can click "Grab SWF", paste the URL and click "Download SWF".

Step 2: Set FCEoutput format.
Click the small arrow of "Profile" then pop out a window, go to "Common Video">"MOV".

Step 3: Start Conversion
Follow the above interface to hit "Next" to enter the following window and then click the button "Finish" to begin to convert SWF to FCE mac.

Step 4: Launch Final Cut Express and you can see the layout of the FCE Interface. From under the File command at the top of the interface, select "Import" and "Files". Then select one converted SWF file from the Choose a File window and press the "Choose" button to choose this file. So that, you could easy import movies into Final Cut Express 4 for editing.