SVG: Use <image> element with href - doesn't work

Report · Apr 07, 2023

Hi I just got Adobe Premiere Pro 5 minutes ago and I am experiencing issues right away:

I have an SVG which inside itself has an <image> element which has an href to another svg which is located in the same folder as the parent SVG.

I get this error:
could not find a plugin to read the linked file "pin.svg" Choose replace to select or ignore to leave the link unchanged

Maybe Adobe cannot display this <image> element at all? It is common in SVGs so that would be very weird.

replacing and selecting the file itself doesn't work.
This error message is pretty poor too, I am not sure if sth is wrong with my svg or if the <image> element is just unsupported.

It works with Inkscape, but there I have other things that bother me, e.g. the id not being the name of the elements.

Report · Apr 07, 2023

Try opening the SVG in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Assuming that it appears as expected, export that as a PNG.

Import the PNG into Premiere Pro.