6 Replies Latest reply: Jun 17, 2010 11:20 AM by Renegade Paladin RSS

    Premiere CS4 and .swf

    Joe Riggs Community Member

      Hello,

       

      I was given a .swf file, the video shows an object in rotation.  However, when I put into cs4, it reads as a still image and the video will not rotate. All I have is the .swf file, not the orginal project. Any ideas? Is it possible to open the .swf in Flas and export it as a avi or mov? The only solution I found was converting it to a .mov  using a third party software, but I lose the alpha channel.

       

      Thanks for all your help

        • 1. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
          Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

          I'd check Moyea, to see if they have a utility to extract the FLV from the SWF player. My guess is that they do. You should also be able to do that extraction with Flash (the program, not the player).

           

          Good luck,

           

          Hunt

          • 2. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
            Joe Riggs Community Member

            Ok, thanks what about .gifs, would they work as videos in pemiere CS4?

            • 3. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
              Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

              Regular GIF's work fine. Not sure about animated GIF's though. Maybe someone else can help if you have the animated variety.

               

              Good luck,

               

              Hunt

              • 4. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
                Colin Brougham Community Member

                I've successfully imported and edited SWFs in Premiere Pro, but I've seen the issue you're talking about, as it's happened to me several times before I found what was causing it. Make sure that in your Media Preferences (Edit > Preferences > Media) the option "Write XMP ID to Files on Import" is UNCHECKED. This option causes Premiere to write a bit of information into the header of any imported media file that helps the system track it. Unfortunately, this breaks SWF files--you'll actually need an original copy of the file because you can't fix the file once the damage is done. Hope you have backups!

                 

                If that option is already unchecked, post back...

                • 5. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
                  Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

                  Colin,

                   

                  Interesting observation and workflow change. Let's hope that your suggestion will help the OP, and that they DO have backups.

                   

                  Nice going,

                   

                  Hunt

                  • 6. Re: Premiere CS4 and .swf
                    Renegade Paladin Community Member

                    I'm having the same problem as the OP.  Unchecking the box you specify doesn't appear to help.   Then again, importing the file with it checked doesn't seem to have wrecked the original file either; it still plays in Flash just fine.  Just in case, I went back to my backups and got a copy of the file that hadn't been imported to Premiere at all and imported it with the box unchecked, and it still has the same problem - the .swf won't rotate.