How to Import SWF File to Premiere Pro for Editing

SWF, standing for stands for "Small Web Format", is the most used one for showing Animated content in the internet because it can store animations and even applets. Chances are you have some SWF video files at hand and want to import the SWF files into Adobe Premiere Pro for editing, only to find Premiere Pro doesn't seem to support SWF flash video, right? How frustrating it is! Then you may wonder whether there is any workaround that enables you to import and edit SWF files on Premiere Pro smoothly? To help many people like you quickly solve the issue, we wrote down this page which will offer you the best way to get Premiere Pro work with SWF files without any issue.

Actually, flash SWFs are generally not editable files. To bring SWF video to Premiere Pro easily, you may consider downloading the free Adobe Flash Player from the Adobe site. That may install the necessary codec, but no guarantees. Then you can turn to a more better option to get some help from third-party software to convert SWF to Premiere Pro more editable format like MPEG-2. Here Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac will give you a big hand.

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.

Steps 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.