Convoluted method for getting an avi or decent .mov out of a Flash file. this was to get stuff into an .avi uncompressed, odd shape (one is a football perimeter fence) 30fps as per specification.
The built in 'export as movie' to .mov is dreadful in Flash CS4. Lots of artefacts and random results.
The solution I found is detailed below.
exporting it as a jpeg sequence (caveat is that any movie clips won't play (Jpeg sequence seems to give you exactly what you see as you scrub, and you don't see movie clip animations (you only see those when you export as swf). solution for the movie clip problem is to convert them to graphic symbols, or put the frames directly on the timeline.
putting it together in FCP. (in a 30fps sequence, need to edit timebase before you put the images in).
export using compressor (no compression, keeping and frame rate the same) to .mov (oddly comes out half second shy). The settings I used as a base were the 'uncompressed 10bit' and then checked through and saved them as a specific one.
then my first attempt was to convert using quicktime pro into .avi (oddly retrieves the half second!). this had the result of a dreadful colour shift. So I processed the .mov through Shake and used no codec and .avi container for the fileout node settings. slight colour shift, but nothing as startling as the quicktime effort. (shown - left is .mov right is mov to avi via shake. bottom is mov to avi using quicktime pro)
Oddly putting it through shake restored the extra half second missing.. !!??!!!
