Reviewer, 2008-08-25 08:31:00

Flash Decompiler is a powerful SWF to FLA converter that will help you decompile Flash movies, convert SWF elements into multiple formats and edit SWF movies without Flash Studio installed.

Pros: The decompiler application converts SWF to FLA with fast speed, with quality and a bunch of features. Should the source code of SWF movie be lost it can be recovered quickly and one could do it with a batch of files at the same time. Recover videos, shapes, frames, morphs, fonts, texts, buttons, sprites and ActionScripts from any SWF file and save directly to your hard drive. It comes in handy when you don`t need to re-do the whole SWF file but just some of its elements. You can easily export some separate elements of a Flash movie and save them to your hard drive. Images, sounds, texts, links, morphs, fonts, shapes, sprites, buttons and ActionScripts can be exported in a variety of formats to let you gain the best results possible. Flash Decompiler lets you convert the whole SWF file into FLA, or export certain Flash resources into FLA format.

Flash Player EXE files are decompiled the same easy way as common SWF files. The decompiler gives you detailed information about the whole Flash movie, its shapes, images, morphs etc, also tracking their placements in frames and sprites and even saving original names of frames, ActionScripts and sprites. It opens a wide range of new creative opportunities with editing Flash movies features. It lets you easily edit images, sounds, texts, links, colors and lines of any Flash movie. It lets you edit sounds, images, colors, gradients, lines, dynamic texts and links even without conversion to FLA. SWF files are edited on the go. Change elements, save them and you could preview them immediately thereafter. You can export Flash Video to AVI, MPEG, FLV and FLA, save sounds as WAV or MP3, images - as PNG, JPEG and BMP, texts as RTF, TXT and HTML. A built-in explorer makes browsing your PC for Flash movies and adding them even for batch decompilation and conversion extremely simple. Flash Decompiler COMPLETELY supports Flash 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 including AS 2.0 and 3.0 completely.

Cons: One must be aware of the ethical angle as with such a tool one would be tempted to take short cuts and use work done by others.

Overall this easy to use piece of code is good for 4 stars.