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I want to create a video using a few images & audios. It'll be something like

Image 1 : stays until audio- 1 is played Image 2-5 : plays until audio 2 is played Image 6 : plays until audio 3 is played.

Till now, I've tried using Flagstone Java API to create SWF, but it didn't give me control for 1st & 3rd point mentioned above.

So Then I switched to ActionScript, which gives me full control in creating the SWF. But since SWF ain't a format that can be uploaded to youtube, so I need to convert it. I tried a few softwares to convert it but the best one (the only one that worked perfect) costs 1500$ which is unaffordable by me.

Now I'm looking forward to WMM (windows movie maker) API, but I'm not sure what I want can be achieved in that.

Please share you experience using WMM API and let me know if my requirements can be met.

Also, if you have any alternative to convert my SWF to youtube video please let me know. Since I'm writing a program so manual conversion using some GUI won't help. The software that I originally used has a command-line interface.

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I ended up using ImageMagicK (open-source) to get the images in the right-size and FFMPeg (comes bundled with ImageMagicK) to create the videos and then merge them and then added audio. This is to help anyone else, trying out something similar. – XCoder Jan 14 at 21:50

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https://www.google.ca/search?q=free+swf+to+video

There looks like there might be some useful things in there, maybe?

And uhm, apparently, you're looking into making a very simple animation, right? One image, one audio, one image, one audio. More like a diaporama. You could literally code it with Javascript.

If you want a more professional (though almost beta) thing, the first version of Adobe Edge Animate is free through a free subscription to the Creative Cloud. Almost like Adobe Flash Professional, though it won't have the option to export your animation as a video directly.

For both of the above cases, the simplest solution is to simply "film" your animation as it plays with software like VLC or Quicktime, or a more specialised tool from here: http://alternativeto.net/software/fraps/ - then you can save it however you want if the original software doesn't allow you to.

Or even simpler: Microsoft Powerpoint can save diaporamas as WMV videos.

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