Im having a problem playing flash movies "swf" in Storyline 3

Yes, it's weird, I've got a grey bar with "swf" like if it could not play it.

The only way to see the SWF is to publish with "Flash with HTML5 fallback" or play the timeline (very slow as usual)

That's right!!! exactly..

God!!!! My course has a lot of flash movies in it!!!
There's no solution for that!!!!   :-/

Hi SL Team, here's what we get when previewing a slide containing a SWF.

Can you fix this?

Thanks.

Hi Arash and Pierre, thanks for the sample file and screenshot!

If you're using Storyline 3 (or Storyline 360), the Preview function now renders in HTML5.  That means that SWF files will not be available during Preview.  The good news is, you can publish your course (or even just a single slide) for Web and upload it to Tempshare for a quick look at how your course will behave.  Make sure you set your publishing options to include Flash output.

I hope that helps!

Thank you Pierre and Alyssa..

My other question is, when i import flash movies into storyline it becomes very slow, i tried to faster the flash movie in adobe flash but that brings the quality of the animation down (Smoothness)
is there any way to control the speed of the imported flash movie in storyline?!?

Hello Arash!  When you say that it becomes slow, does the movie play back slowly?  Or does the import take a long time?

I tested a .swf file in Storyline 3, and it seemed to play fine using the timeline playback button as well as when published and played on the web.  I didn't notice a slowing down.

Check out our article on Flash Movie best practices.

If your flash files meet those requirements, can you share one for us to test out?  Thanks!

Thank you Crystal, yes the movie plays back slowly. thank you for the article..

Storyline publishes at a rate of 30 frames per second. thats the problem.
and if i bring my animations frame rate down to 30, it will loose quality.

And seems like using SWF files in stoeyline has a lot of limitations No ipad, No google chrome,... which is not good, but thank you anyways... at least i know that now.

Thanks for following up, Arash.  You're right that most mobile devices will not support the Flash output.  

Your Google Chrome may need to have the Flash Player enabled so that it will play Flash output.  Here's their article on how to do that with Chrome's current setup:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/6258784?hl=en

Thanx for your the link Crystal, 
i will inform my audiences to follow these steps and fix the problem although i dont think theyre very technical

Thank you anyways it was a big help :)

You're totally welcome!  I hear you...I know it must be tough deploying your e-learning to lots of people with lots of different setups.  

Let us know if there's anything else we can do to help.  🙂

I'm hoping you can clarify something related to this thread for me, Crystal. As Flash becomes obsolete, we need to convert all of our existing SCORM files to HTML5 instead of Flash. Our IT Admins are advising us against using the HTML5-first/Flash back-up publishing option; they'd like us to publish HTML5 only. I'm concerned about several of our SCORM files with embedded media.

The situation:  Publishing a Storyline 3 SCORM file that includes embedded .swf files to HTML5 only; uploading the course to an LMS and accessing the course with a web browser that does not support Flash

The question: The course will work, but will the .swf files? If not, what video output format(s) should we be using instead of .swf?

Hi Coral,

If the browser doesn't support Flash, the .swf files will not play (regardless of how you published).  You can add in an MP4 to be natively supported in Storyline, or insert one of these file formats which will be converted to MP4 in Storyline:

• 3G2
• 3GP
• ASF
• AVI
• DV
• M1V
• M2V
• M4V
• MOV
• MPE
• MPEG
• MPG
• QT
• WMV

Thank you, that's exactly what I needed!

Hi All, I am new to storyline and I have a .swf file that need to convert to .MP4 and I am having the same issue as the screenshot above. what should I do to convert the .swf file to .MP4 and is there a way to change the video itself using Articulate or not?

Hi Marco,

Use Swivel, it does a great job converting SWF  to MP4 :

https://download.cnet.com/Swivel/3000-2194_4-75863771.html

Thank you Pierre for the details, but why articulate is not playing the swf file and when saving it as mp4 it gives an error?

Hello Marco!

There isn't a conversion tool in any of the Articulate 360 tools so you would need to use an outside source to convert a .swf file to a .mp4.

Is it possible for you to share the .swf file here so I can test it on my end?

Hi Marco, Lauren is right.

SL1 and SL2 used to play SWF animations, SL3/360 does not anymore.

Your SWF is probably not a video but a vector animation (what SWF were originally meant to be) and needs to be played and recorded as MP4. And that's what Swivel does.