Easy way to Convert and Import SWF Files to Premiere Pro

"I created an animation using Anime Studio 8, and when I exported my videos to my portable disk drive, I saved them as a flash video (.swf). I am trying to import them to Premiere Pro for making some operations but it will not let me. What should i convert my animations to, to import them into Premiere Pro? "



In fact, SWF is one of the most dominant flash container formats and widely used among the internet. However, if you try to import them into Premiere Pro for further editing, you'll disappointed to find Premiere Pro doesn't seem to support SWF video files. It's really a headache that Premiere Pro, such a great movie making software program, doesn't accept SWF format. You may concern that is there any workaround that enables you to import and edit SWF in Premiere Pro smoothly? Okay. In this article, you'll learned an easy way to fix the annoying issue!

Actually, it's not so hard to do the trick. Why we always have trouble editing because Adobe Premiere Pro still cannot accept all codecs to go natively. So to bring SWF video to Premiere Pro easily, what you just need to do is to change the SWF flash files to something Adobe Premiere Pro could natively handle, and a mpeg2 codec was usually ideal. Here Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac will give you a big favor.

This video converter program supports creating high quality MPEG-2 files without losing quality and the output video seamlessly fits Premiere Pro. The conversion is easy to handle and only with a few clicks, you can finish the conversion without facing any glitches. Besides, you can convert SWF as well as AVI, MKV, VOB, WMV, FLV, etc to an editable format for using in Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, Pinnacle Studio, Sony Vegas Pro. If you're running a Windows computer, please turn to Brorsoft Video Converter. Below is the step-by-step guide on transcoding SWF to Premiere Pro supported MPEG-2 format for smooth editing.




(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5.8)

Guides to convert SWF files to Premiere Pro editing-friendly format

Step 1: Launch the SWF Video Converter on your computer and you can either click "Add" button to import .swf files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.



Step 2: Set the output format - Click "Format" drop-down bar to select a proper video format. To edit flash SWF videos in Adobe Premiere Pro, then Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg) is the suitable one.



Tip: Click the "Settings" button, you are able to enter the "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video and audio parameters for SWF source files, including video size, bit rate, frame rate and more.

Step 3: Finally, press the Convert button and the program will start to convert SWF files to MPEG-2 which is ready to be imported into Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5/CS4 without any problem.

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