How to Crop SWF on Mac without Changing File Format

"I am redoing our company website, and I have an older Flash file that I have to use. The problem is that the SWF is bigger than the bounding box so I have to crop the edges. I've tried Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, but none of them works. Is it possible to crop a swf file using any of those programs, or any other programs? PS. I'm running Mac OS."

In many cases, you may need to crop SWF file. For example, you've rip an impressive Flash banner file off the Internet and you want to crop out the original logo/watermark; the SWF file is too big so you need to crop the edges, etc. In such circumstances, you will need a practical SWF Cropper for Mac to help you crop SWF on Mac. In fact, there are many SWF converters able to crop SWF file, but most of them crop SWF by converting SWF to other video formats, while you actually want to preserve the .swf file format. Is it possible to crop SWF on Mac without changing the file format?

Sure! By using Firecoresoft SWF Converter for Mac, you can easily crop .swf file on Mac while preserving the original file format without quality loss. Press the download button below to get the trial version of the SWF Cropper for Mac, and then follow the guide below to learn how to crop SWF file on Mac in details. Note that Windows users should get the SWF Cropper for Windows.

Load Source SWF File

To begin with, first you need to add the SWF file to the Mac SWF Cropper. To do this, you can: 1. click the "Select File" button to locate the file from you local folder; 2. drag and drop the selected file onto the main panel of the program.

Crop SWF on Mac

Press the "Crop" button on the toolbar. Then you can use the mouse to drag the "square" to resize the SWF file as per your need. You can also fill out the blanks of Left, Bottom, Width and Height to fine tune the value. In the meanwhile, you are allow to add image watermark to the SWF as copyright if needed.

Set Output Format

To crop SWF on Mac with Firecoresoft SWF Cropper for Mac without changing the file format, you just need to follow "Profile" > "Common Video" > "SWF(*.swf)" to set the output format. Of course, if you need to convert the SWF file other formats, this program can aslo do you a favor. It supports to convert .swf to most popular video/audio/image formats together with various output presets for devices, applications and more. Feel free to pick out what you need!

Finish Cropping

Finally, hit the "Start" button to start converting .swf to the designated file format. You can preview the process in real time during the conversion. You also have the control over the conversion: start, stop, pause, skip, etc. A pop-up window will indicate you the destination of the converted segment.