News :: 15MR: VisiFly
Hello all and welcome to today’s 15-Minute Review! Today’s toy will be VisiFly—an application to quickly convert from video format to Flash Video or Flash.
As Giveaway of the Day states (First paragraph:)
“VisiFly is an easy-to-use program to convert your video files into streaming Adobe(Macromedia) Flash files step by step. VisiFly is great for displaying your videos on websites, CDs, for creating flash tutorials and presentations. It converts almost any video format (avi, wmv, mpeg, mp4, mov and many others) to Flash (swf, flv).”
Quick Pros
- Easy to use
- Fairly fast for reencoding
Quick Cons
- Resulting SWF runs very slow timeline-wise (May be a fault of SWF)
- Can not play resulting FLV file at all (Even when brought right into Flash, not Player)
- No resizing or other options at all
- No drag and drop functionality
Working SWF file and non-working FLV
Here is the resulting SWF file to show you the sluggishness of the video. As a note, these were from a raw uncompressed file originally. I may post the video in a while to see if people can get it.
Expansion
As since I’m running out of time since I’ve tinkered in hope of making this work well (And trying to get my website to embed them.) It would have been a great application, except for the cons listed. If the bugs were fixed and add-in resizing, it would be great. It is simple and fairly quick, which was nice as well. Too bad I was having such difficulties.
Final Verdict
Well, until I can isolate my issues to see if it were the file or not, I can not really render final jury. While it did make the SWF file, is was very slow (1/2 speed approximately, maybe even slower) which is very disappointing. If the FLV ran better, I would go with it. As for right now? Download it and try to make it work. If you can’t make it work, oh well. As for paying for it, I probably wouldn’t because I do suspect these are not isolated incidents and as such would not recommend this kind of cash out for an application such as this one.
There is a freeware alternative however; Riva FLV Encoder—It has a ton more features and its free.
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
Append
Well all, I did a little more work with this application. I did get both the FLV and the SWF working. I had to redo the FLV 3 times to get a working one, but it is the video above. The SWF is still bugged (Runs too slowly based on original video and the timeline is too fast; causes issues with web players)—I still rank this as a thumbs down as due to the volatile nature of getting working results.
Posted by BladedThoth on Monday, February 12, 2007
