Feature Request: Add the ability to work directly with vector files (svg, ai, eps)

Report · May 26, 2023

If Premiere Pro is to keep up with market leading NLE's, it desperately needs the ability to work with vector files. Currently, all vectors get rasterised on import, without any user options about how this is done. I'm constantly working with icons, logo's, graphics of all sorts in Premiere Pro and the lack of support for vector files has always been painful. Bear in mind that most icons are created at small sizes such as 32x32 or 64x64, which means that almost all vector icon imports in Premiere Pro are blurry, pixelated and unusable.

Further to that, to even get an SVG into Premiere Pro, I have to open it in another program first, export it as a support file type or add to CC libraries, before we can even get it into Premiere Pro. Also, bear in mind that at the start of a project, the editor may not know what size the icons will be scaled to by the time we get to version 10 of a timeline. Asking us to manually rasterise it at the correct resolution beforehand is just not possible. And if we rasterise it manually at 4000x4000px just to be safe, and we finally use the icon at 50x50px, that's a lot of wasted memory being used.

MVP: the Minimum Viable Product here is that when importing vectors, we should get a popup menu which allows us to choose the resolution to rasterise at, by default it should be set so that the longest edge of the vector is width of the current timeline we're working with. This is only a workaround though and not a good future option.

MMP: the Minimum Marketable Product here is the ability to work with vectors natively. I can't see any reason why vectors need to be rasterised? Maybe this was the best way to work it 20 years ago but technology has come a long way since. Please can we have fully functional vectors in Premiere Pro, the ability to scale to any size with no quality loss, the option to right click and edit in Illustrator the way we can with photos and Photoshop. Let us import EPS, SVG, and AI files as fully functional vectors.

I also want to say that it's demoralising adding feature requests when history has shown that even if a request gets enough votes, it is still ignored by Adobe. Yet I hope in the spirit of altruism (AKA gullibility) that maybe, one day, something will be fixed.

All the best. (sets reminder for 2025 to check back for any updates)!

Regards, aTomician

Report · Dec 22, 2024

A few days til 2025 and sadly still nothing. But I heartly endorse this being introduced!

I hate the fact that I need Illustrator installed on my computer even though I use it for nothing else except converting eps files when I get sent them from clients

Report · Dec 22, 2024

They don't ignore requested things. Period.

But they do have to prioritize based on (partly) the percentage of the base needing something. And compared with alternative methods already available.

For some like you, this would be huge. But how many would actually need it?

I've posted some very good and usable upgrades to Lumetri operation. Which the devs always say would be great. Except there's only a few people in relative terms who would use them. Therefore not happening.

As a business owner myself, I understand. Over the years we have had to make many decisions we didn't like, but data clearly showed that to be the wiser choice.