Increasingly many publishers are producing content designed for delivery through VLEs, this is usually presented in SCORM format and often contains a number of PowerPoint files with embedded flash content. Many of us would like to re-engineer this to meet our own needs. The following routine outlines how to disaggregate some of this content content into its component assets, namely extracting embedded Flash content from a PowerPoint.

Part 1

1. Download the extractaflash.exe file from here
2. Place this extracted file into C:\

Part 2

1. Open Powerpoint File
2. Make sure the Active X control is enabled
3. Go to the slide with the embedded Flash File
4. ‘Select’ it with your mouse and drag it to the desktop – this creates a Scrap file….which is really called Scrap.shs
5. Now move the Scrap file to C:\

Part 3

1. Go to Start–>Run and type cmd
2. On the Command line type cd\ [enter]
3. Now type exactly ….. C:\extractaflash.exe c:\Scrap.shs c:\output.swf
4. Your flash file is now called output.swf in c:\ that can be renamed to whatever you want to call it —remember the .swf extension!!