You’re halfway through an edit. You find the perfect logo, download it, and discover it’s an SVG. All you wanted was a graphic over your footage. Now you’re opening Illustrator to export a PNG, or looking for a random conversion website before you can get back to the timeline.
Or you find the image you need in Google Images, copy it, and try to paste it into Premiere. A copied browser image doesn’t become a timeline clip through the usual paste command. You end up saving it, finding the download, importing it, and dragging it into your sequence.
SmoothyApp’s new Assets tool handles those small interruptions in one place: convert an SVG into a PNG, or paste a copied image, then send the selected graphic straight to your Premiere Pro timeline.
The SVG importer is available in SmoothyApp 1.5 for Mac and Windows. Download for Mac or Windows, then open Assets to follow these steps.
The SVG logo detour
Logos, icons and illustrations often come as SVGs. SVG isn’t listed among Adobe’s supported still-image formats, so the file needs a format Premiere can import.
With Assets, drop the SVG into Smoothy, keep the transparent background, and click Send to Premiere. Smoothy converts it to a PNG, saves the file, imports it, and places it at the playhead. SVGs start at 1000px wide with proportional height; choose another width if your edit needs it. The conversion runs locally, so there’s no need to open Illustrator or upload the logo to a converter.
Copy from Google Images, paste into Smoothy
When you already have the right image on screen, you shouldn’t have to hunt for it again in your Downloads folder.
- In Google Images, open the image preview and use your browser’s Copy image command.
- Open Assets in SmoothyApp and press Ctrl+V. On a Mac, use Cmd+V. Paste from Clipboard does the same job.
- Check the preview, move Premiere’s playhead to where you want the image, and click Send to Premiere.
You can also use Ctrl+C → Ctrl+V when copying an image from an app that supports image copying, or Cmd+C → Cmd+V on a Mac. Paste happens inside Smoothy’s Assets tab; Send to Premiere then adds the selected image to the timeline.
Smoothy saves a PNG into your output folder as part of sending it. Premiere has a file to link to, and you can carry on editing.
What gets imported?
Smoothy renders the SVG into a PNG at the size you choose. Premiere receives that PNG as a still image. It is a raster image, so the SVG paths do not remain editable in Premiere. Keep the original SVG so you can render a different size later.
A transparent output lets the graphic sit over your footage without a background rectangle. Choosing a transparent background preserves existing transparency; it does not remove a background that is already part of a photo.
1. Open Assets and load the SVG
Open the desktop app and select Assets. Drag in your SVG, use Browse Files, or paste a copied SVG or image with Ctrl+V / Cmd+V or Paste from Clipboard. You can load multiple graphics and switch between them in the file list.
Assets also accepts PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP and AVIF files for image-to-PNG export. This workflow produces still images.
2. Choose your output size and background
Set Width (px) to fit your intended use. For a graphic that fills a 1920px-wide sequence, 1920px is a useful starting point. A small corner logo can use a smaller width. Leave enough pixels for any scaling you plan to do in the edit.
SVGs default to 1000px wide, and the height follows the original aspect ratio. Other images keep their own dimensions by default. Large outputs fit within 8192px on either side.
Choose Transparent to preserve transparency, or select white, black or a custom color. Check the preview. SVG optimization is optional: it strips metadata, comments and whitespace, with a coordinate-precision control for the SVG before conversion.
3. Connect Premiere Pro
Install SmoothyApp with its bundled Premiere panel. Restart Premiere if it was open, then open Window → Extensions → SmoothyEdit. Keep the desktop app running and check its Premiere connection status.
Open the sequence you want to use and move the playhead to the insertion point. The Premiere setup guide covers the connection in more detail.
4. Send the selected graphic
Choose the still duration, from 1 to 30 seconds, then click Send to Premiere. Smoothy saves the selected PNG into the output folder, imports it into the project, and places it at the playhead on the topmost video track.
Keep that saved PNG in place: Premiere links to the file on disk. You can adjust the clip’s position, scale and duration in your edit after import.
Exporting without Premiere
You can convert graphics without an editor connection. Export PNG exports all loaded images to your output folder, while Save As lets you pick a location for the selected image. Conversion runs locally and needs no account or Studio credits.
If an individual file fails, review its error and the exported files. Successfully loaded assets can still be processed.
Explore the SVG importer and see the other SmoothyApp 1.5 changes.