How to Get AVI for Editing in Adobe Premiere from SWF Files

I often get the feedback from the customers or the video fans about flash files. They would ask “why the plug-in program: FLV Importer Pro for Adobe Premiere didn’t allow me to import SWF files directly into Adobe Premiere although I had installed the version of Adobe Premiere which it can handle?” In fact, these users or video fans generally confuse Flash files and FLV files. They are totally different files.

Two types of SWF:

SWF files are always used for creating animated display graphics. For the video aspect, it can be departed into two kinds of files. One is the file which only contains the player controls or player skins. Namely it is the look or the appearance of the video which is related to the style, color and the mode. The other one is the independent SWF files. What is the independent SWF? It contains both the player skin and the video content and can be played online with Adobe Flash Player. These two types of SWF files is ending with *.swf.

About Flash Video (FLV)

FLV is the short name of Flash Live Video. This kind of file is the video content of flash files. Generally the extension of these files are *.flv. We can play FLV online or offline using the FLV player like Moyea FLV Player. This type of video file can not be played directly with the browser we used like IE, Firefox and Safari. We must embed FLV into the SWF to form the independent SWF files. Then we can enjoy the video with the browser online or offline.

Back to the question that the customer asked, here it is clear why it is not valid to import SWF to Adobe Premiere with Moyea FLV Importer Pro for Adobe Premiere. FLV Importer Pro can only import FLV directly into Adobe Premiere. SWF is not FLV files so it is invalid. It is obvious that the customer choose the wrong product. SWF to video converter probably is what he wanted.

How to import SWF to Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere accepts AVI files due to the advantages of keeping the original video quality at the max. Then how to convert SWF to AVI for editing in Adobe Premiere? I recommend a program: SWF to Video Converter to complete this task perfectly.

This SWF to Video Converter is a professional Flash converter for Flash SWF to video conversion. It can convert Macromedia Flash SWF to AVI, MPEG, iPod/PSP (MP4), 3GP, animated GIF, image series and more other popular formats. 

Download and install this useful program. Click the folder icon to add the wanted SWF. You can convert Flash movies to AVI with the default player. The following is the simple guide about how to convert SWF to AVI.

1. After importing SWF file, it shows the properties of the file. Click “Next”.

2. Click next button to adjust the position of the video and add a watermark.

3. Choose “AVI Video” as the output format. Then Click “Next”.

4. Click “Play and Capture” button to start recording.

5. Play the video and each move you make will be recorded. Click “Finish” to start conversion after it completes recording. If you want to skip some frames, just click “Stop (Start) Capturing”.

Now you will get AVI files and you can easily import AVI to Adobe Premiere.