Company Information: Christopher A. Kohlman serves in multiple positions at Ecclesia College which include being the Public Relations Director, Web & Graphics Designer, and a faculty member. The school was a missions training organization for about 30yrs before becoming a national accredited and state certified college offering a Bachelors in Biblical Ministries. Since 2004, they have grown rapidly adding many new degree programs including business and communication degrees that we just started fall 2007. With the addition of these degree programs the college has added many web & graphics design courses.

Victoria Veligodsky: What challenges have driven you to search for software of this kind?

Christopher A. Kohlman: Numerous times in the past semester I have had students come to me upset because they have lost the FLA file for some of their projects. Or even more commonly, they had a project the way they wanted it at one point then continued to edit it until they messed it up and had saved over the original FLA.

Victoria Veligodsky: How did get to know about Flash Decompiler by Eltima Software?

Christopher A. Kohlman: I used Google search engine to find a tool that would de-compile a Flash file into its constituents. The search has taken me to your corporate website, where I managed to find Flash Decompiler for Mac.

Victoria Veligodsky: Have you experimented with other products for the same task before choosing Eltima solution? Why did you prefer our product?

Christopher A. Kohlman: I have previously used the decompiler by another software producer, but they do not make a Mac version, so I had been looking for a new software solution. This led to some other applications for your software as I am finding that I can use the Decompiler as a teaching tool as well.

Victoria Veligodsky: Please, describe how you are using Flash Decompiler now.

Christopher A. Kohlman: I use Flash Decompiler to help students retrieve FLA’s from their projects they’ve lost or messed up.

I also do a lot of web design on the side for companies and had years worth of work on a backup hard drive that died a month or so ago. So now I have lots of sites out there that I no longer have my FLA files for. This is where Flash Decompiler is invaluable as a retrieval tool.

Victoria Veligodsky: Did you benefit from using our solution? If you did, please describe in which way.

Christopher A. Kohlman: The students can find projects that they find interesting and take them apart, looking at the action script and learning how to recreate it from scratch. What I have found is that many of the students’ projects are fairly large when they have completed them because they are not familiar with optimization methods.

So now I am planning to purchase your Flash Optimizer for Mac in order to help them with the problem of large Flash files. [Victoria: Eltima decided to present Christopher with a single license of Flash Optimizer as a "thank you" for his cooperation with us and participation in the case study.]