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Editing a SWF file in Premiere Pro
Hey guys,
I have a SWF file which has been recorded using Adobe Captivate – this file is of a online tutorial which I am being asked to edit.
Now, I use Premiere Pro for my editing however I have never had to try and edit a SWF (I have never really worked with flash in any form) and cannot figure out how to do it.
Firstly, is it possible? I am anticipating that maybe the construction of a SWF doesn’t lend itself to editing since it is not ‘footage’ as such.
If I’m wrong and I can edit it in Premiere Pro how would I go about it?
If this is not possible can anyone recommend a way of doing the following:
We need to be able to capture an online demonstration that is being done in real time. With the captured footage we want to make an edit for a promo video.
Thanks in advance for the help, I did check the forums first but it appears to be all converting PPro footage TO flash.
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You can import a SWF file into Premiere Pro, but there are a lot of caveats. SWF files are interactive, dynamic items, usually not movies that play through from beginning to end. Premiere Pro can import and use animation from the top-level, main timeline in the SWF, but not animation nested more deeply than that. Also, animation defined with ActionScript is ignored; just animation created with keyframes is honored.
But are you sure that it’s the SWF that you should be working with in the first place? I’m not very familiar with Captivate, but I do know that you can export an F4V file (a video file) directly from Captivate.
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To be honest I’m not sure.
I’m trying to create a short promo video which uses footage thatis a screen capture recording of someone showing a demonstration of software.
How can I do this? What software can I record the demonstration in which I will be able to edit in Premiere Pro?
Any help would be much appreciated.
My most recent attempt is capturing the footage in ‘Camstasia’ which then exports to .avi (using their own CODEC) however this is not recognised by Ppro even though I have the Codec installed.
I’m a bit stuck!
I can even edit it in Windows Movie Maker and pretty much every other video playing software; VLC, Quicktime, DivX and so forth.
Any ideas?
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Just an update – my recent export in the Camtasia format actually shows up working fine in Bridge but not Ppro!
I can an error in Ppro saying:
‘Unsupported format or damaged file’
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You can view and edit camtasia captured footage by changing the codec of the exported footage within camtasia. Premier does not recognize TCCC codec. Use uncompressed Microsoft AVI( depending on your system) to export camtasia footage.
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