# Calling the flash application with javascript for batch processing?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 8, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-the-flash-application-with-javascript-for-batch-processing/314787 "2010-10-08T19:11:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![mlk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-the-flash-application-with-javascript-for-batch-processing/314787/1 "2010-10-08T19:11:30Z")

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Hello boys and girls.

I’m working on a cartoon series in the uk and we use flash, 3d and after effects. I’m building a little pipeline tool to help us compositors do your job (there’s hundreds if not thousands of files to be comped for a great number of shows)

anyhow, we use flash for the 2d animation and we need to extract pngs. Right now it’s a process I can’t streamline (ie compers still have to have flash opened to choose which layers to export manually) but I’d like to be able to open flash and launch a specific javascript file (‘command’)

this is not AS3-related but does anyone of you know how to do this?