I ultimately want an .avi or mpeg movie, linear playing.

I have found that saving to video format (avi, quicktime) is not really supported. A friend suggested that I buy a video capture card. I was wondering if anyone has needed to make a movie out of a Flash slide presentation and how they did it. I've looked into MS Encoder and Frap.

Is there a software capture that will work well? Techniques? Hardware?

From what I have found Quicktime requires an earlier Flash Player, but slideshows require a later one.

Quicktime & Avi export fails out.

Quicktime Log:
Starting Frame-Counted Capture to 2 Frames
Frame Number Desired Capture Time Actual Captured Time
0 0.083 0.195
1 0.278 0.385
Frame-Counted Capture Done at Time 0.400

The swf's play well but Avi export makes a tiny empty file.

Thanks for you comments!