Slideshow/Video with hundreds of World Maps

[matthiasg44052794]

Hello!

We design hundreds of world maps with Adobe Illustrator
which we want to include in a slideshow and video. Each world map is a
(multi-layered) Adobe Illustrator artwork (.ai). The layers are needed in order
to create animations (such as pulse effects for different dots
on each map). We save each world map as Flash

(*.swf) file which is the standard way for
creating animated maps.

Question 1: 

At this point we want to import the .swf files into
"Adobe Lightroom" and/or "Adobe Premiere" in order to
create a slideshow-video. We are unsure what format will work. How can the
*.swf files be imported into Lightroom or Premiere?

Question 2:

What software is more suitable for this project?
"Lightroom" or "Premiere", or both?

Question 3:

If (*.swf) files, cannot be imported, what steps should we take to get importable animated world maps?

Thanks,

Mat

[brian704 · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure that flash files are going to be your best answer. It may be better to take your Illustrator files into After Effects and re-create the animations there. The re-work should be minimal as AE reads all the layers. These can them be used in PP to create your video.

Take a look at this tutorial and see if it helps:

Super easy Illustrator artwork animations in After Effects - YouTube

[RobShultz]

Premiere does not work with layers from AI. Premiere also does not work with swf. I would use After Effects.