My semi-transparent clips show up, properly later over the relevant words which appear toward the end of my video – but nothing happens upon clicking those buttons.

Has this been verified to work in Flash and Premiere Pro CS4? And if so, do I need to do something special beyond simply dragging the swf files into the PremPro project panel and then placing on the timeline?

Thanks

[DR - Bottom line - I haven't tested this in quite a while and even then, there were limitations in what you can do.]

[DR - ultimately, what I have found is that there are limitations to what can be imported into Premiere Pro as related to the complexity of the Flash project or animation you're trying to get in there. I'm not enough of a Flash guru to really test it out. If it doesn't import, then converting to a QT or AVI is your best choice.]

[DR - Export your Flash Animation as a Quicktime or PNG sequence and then import into Premiere Pro. That should give you the quality you are looking for]

[DR - I haven't tried this since CS3. If it's really giving you a problem, then I'd render it out as a QuickTime and import that way.]

[DR - don't know as I haven't done this with CS5 at all. My recommendation is to remove elements in the SWF and identify what is exactly causing the problem.]

However, it imports on an alpha channel and ignores the stage colour.

Is there any way to import the swf exactly how its been exported from Flash..

Also, previewing the swf in Premiere is very slow and stuttering on my end.. its only a 7 sec swf. ??

[DR - I haven't checked in on this in a while. You might check the web for more recent information, check the Premiere Pro forums or converting the SWF into video]

I did uncheck “Write XMP ID to Files on Import” but to no avail.

Any hints? I would like to use All Adobe products, including video screen capture, but I may have to go back to Camtasia Studio for my screen capture needs.

[DR - You could alternately import the FLV if it's primarily a video. If it is an animation, then you might also consider writing out to QT and importing then. To be honest, I haven't gone back and tried this in a while. It seems there are some caveats with bringing in a SWF. What version of Captivate are you using?

Camtasia Studio is a great product that will allow output to a variety of codecs.]

[DR - It should work just fine. Don't have any suggestions for you but I've done it and it works!]

[TJ - Without knowing more about your system and what you're using, it is impossible for me to help you. However, I do recommend you go over to Adobe.com and join the Premiere Pro forum. There you find myself and several others who will be able to help you with a little more information. Thanks for the comment.]

However, even though I own a killer machine (Dell Precision with 12GB of RAM), the application slows down significantly during the video editing – to the point where even moving a slice around on the video tracks causes a delay of 10 sec before I can do my next mouse-move.

Any ideas here? I tried different locations for the scratch-discs etc…

One more thing: DON’T use movie-clips in your flash animation, Premiere will not play or loop them, all you get is static images. Use them as animated graphic instances instead.

Also – any 3d-feature-based animation (Flash Cs4) will be ignored by Premiere!

[DR - No, not really but then again I've not done a ton of work with SWF's in Premiere other than to see how well they do (or don't) work. My recommendation would be to render out the animation as a QT and then bring it into Premiere Pro. Let me know how you make out.]

[DR - perhaps import the SWF into a Flash stage and export out a Quicktime as an alternative?]

I’ve tried saving my 16:9 flash project to Quicktime file but it automatically compresses it to 4:3 and it leaves weird markings on the image.

Breaking the flash animation down into individual JPG frames is not really an option because when I import to Premiere it automatically sets imported images to 6sec duration.

Is there some way to make a .swf a larger image without manually resizing in Premiere? Any help would be really appreciated!

Cheers

[DR - Why not make your Flash project bigger so you don't have to stretch. also when you export to quicktime if it doesn't show up right, you can go into QT's movie properties and change things like the aspect ratio. As for jpg import, you can do a numbered sequence. Check out the check box in the lower left.]

[DR - Nick, Check to see that the SWF will play in a Media player or some type of flash player. Are you using CS4? Have you tried exporting to a Quicktime and importing? These are just a couple of random thoughts off the top of my head. Let me know how you make out with these suggestions.]

swf imported thru flashant could be scaled streched and even keyed on a the bg alpha

[DR - Importing SWFs into Premiere Pro is a CS4 feature. What you would have to do is find a utility that converts your SWF into an AVI or Quicktime. I've seen things like that out there. It's another step, but at least you'll get it in there if that's your goal...]

I just got into Flash recently and am loving it! Yet trying to work with Flash .swf’s in Adobe Premier [old] or Windows Movie Maker is a total nightmare and a hard drive killer.

THANKS, ADOBE!!!!!!! You rock the world…as always.

[DR - I don't know. I took a look at the website. on the positive side, it's the Techsmith guys, on the negative side - it looks like a beta. Perhaps they're not respecting the alpha channel that is a part of the Flash spec. You'd have to take it up with them. Sorry I don't have much more for you on this.]