Re: editing text in Flash movie

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I had to edit text in a completed flash movie. I quickly evaluated a couple
of Flash decompilers, picked one, decompiled the flash and struggled to find
where the text was that needed changing. Some of it was obvious, other bits
were hidden in action script code.

If it's just text, though, a decompiler will pull it out so you can see it
more easily.

-Wendy

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Gregory P Sweet
<gps03 -at- health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us>wrote:

> It might be much much trickier that though. there are any number of
> applications that output to flash these days so there is no guarantee that
> there is an editable fla anywhere to be found.
>
> Personally I'd go with the annotated screen cap method. especially if it is
> light changes like missed punctuation.
>
> Greg
>
> techwr-l-bounces+gps03=health -dot- state -dot- ny -dot- us -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com wrote on
> 02/11/2009 04:44:38 PM:
>
> > A question to ask them -- did they use text files and simply use Flash to
> > inhale the content?
> > Whenever I use Flash with a lot of text I write some ActionScript to
> access
> > a text file and import the data. If changes, edits, etc. need to be made,
> I
> > simply replace the text file.
> >
> > Any idea if that's what was developed?
> >
> > If you have the original .fla files you should be able to figure it out.
> Or
> > simply cut and paste the text from the .fla into a Word document.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Becky Edmondson <beckyed -at- rcn -dot- com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My client wants me to provide copy edits for text appearing in a Flash
> > > movie. Their exiting process is to simply wrote verbose queries that
> > > identify the page and then describe the change needed. Takes a huge
> amount
> > > of time. I'm having to write long notes to direct them to insert a
> single
> > > period somewhere, for example.
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