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We will discover what techniques to save on your hard drive flash animations that are found more frequently on the net. Most of these animations are used to make advertisements, others to create little games but some appear to be real small masterpieces of animation that we may wish to save and view (or use) without must use our internet connection ...

Firstly, we must make sure your browser has the Flash Player plugin is usually the case, otherwise it can be downloaded freely at the site of Macromedia France.

If you can read the superb Flash animation below entitled "Animator vs. Animation" signed Alan Becker, is that everything goes well and that your browser has many of the Flash Player.

Animator Vs Animation

The three main market browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera) can perform such as backups, but nothing is ever simple, the techniques used differ depending on the browser. We'll look at a few.

1. Save a Flash in Internet Explorer:

The simplest solution is the following:

a. Clear the cache of your browser (Tools => Internet Options => General => Delete Files ...)

b. Go to the website where is the flash animation that you want to save.

c. Go into the browser cache (for Windows XP is C: Documents and SettingsNOMDEVOTRESESSIONLocal SettingsTemporary Internet Files folder) where you can get your flash animation.

Another solution is to use software whose sole function is to safeguard the elements in flash.

You can use Movies Extractor Scout Lite.

This software adds an extra button in your Internet Explorer browser that allows you to download a flash animation into a "click".

In the same type, it could also include the software Flash Saving Plugin whose operation is similar to Movies Extractor Scout Lite.

2. Save a Flash in Firefox:

Saving Flash is very simple in Firefox with a simple extension.

The extension is called "Download Embedded". Here is what happens after installing the extension and restart Firefox.

The little orange arrow that appears when a Flash is present on the page (bottom right corner of your browser).

Click on the arrow to start or downloads.

3. Save a Flash animation in Opera:

To save a flash animation in Opera procedure is more difficult.

Since version 8, Opera allows the execution of a javascript file (extension *. js) to each loaded page. Thus, it is possible to add new functionality to the browser.

To download a movie and it will have to add to Opera functionality via javascript.

a. First, we must create a directory where you store your javascript file, eg C: userjs.

b. Then you should download the script in question you will find on this page (do a copy / paste the script into a new file that you name javascriptflash.js example).

c. Then place your file in your C: userjs

d. The next step is to ask Opera to use the javascript in use.

In Opera, follow this path: Tools => Preferences => Advanced => Content => Options = Javascript> javascript file to the user.

At this point Opera to indicate the path of your javascript folder (C: userjs), then you can confirm with OK and restart Opera.

e. You can now download a Flash with Opera to do when you're on a page containing an animation, double-click in an empty part of the page and a new link will appear above the animation as below (these links are invisible to not disturb your navigation as double-clicking was not performed).

f. Click on this link and download the animation.

If you have difficulties to download a flash animation, you can seek advice in our forums.

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