Influx

It was preventing you from importing PNG JPG TIF GIF images sequences in versions 2025+ (it was written "Sequence not available" greyed with the checkbox disabled, and if you tried forcing using native importers it was producing this error anyway "file cannot be imported - files of type cannot be used as sequences"), now fixed ! Bug discussed here https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/issues-importing-image-sequences-ae-2025/td-p/15202562

It was producing a bug in After Effects with Content-Aware Fill during png layer generation ("error: file cannot be imported - files of type fGNP cannot be used as sequences." and "warning: Content-Aware Fill Error: Initialization Failed" popups), now fixed !

.PNG .JPG .JXL (JPEG XL) .TIF and .GIF are now dropped when Influx is overriding Adobe in versions 2025+ (it was not overriding Adobe in previous versions), they will be imported and decoded by native importers

.APNG (Animated PNG) .WebP and .QOI are still supported, without support for images sequences

You can still force import specific files with Influx by suffixing them with the .influx extension

Project Panel : due to Adobe bugs and caching information inside the .aep project, the "Type" metadata column and the lines describing the content of the file below the Thumbnail sometimes are wrong about which importer is decoding the file (it can be using Influx to decode the file without "Influx by Autokroma" being written)

You can refresh those information by replacing the Item by the same file

You can always check if it's decoded by Influx by right click on a project item -> "Interpret Footage" -> "Main..." and click the "More Options..." button at the bottom

Audio tracks missing or error "Frame substitution recursion attempt aborting after multiple attempts on file" : it comes from Adobe, see explanation and solution below

With april update 2025 (v25.2), Premiere Pro and Media Encoder now import H264 .MKV files (see https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2025-2.html ). Those files were already supported by Influx but now that Adobe is supporting some .MKV files it will not always pass some unsupported files to Influx. Some files might not work anymore and have issues (see above). To work around this bad behavior from Adobe, you need to allow Influx to override Adobe : either enable override the .mkv extension in the Settings popup to act on all files, or suffix your file with .influx extension to force Adobe to pass specific files to Influx on a case by case basis.

More footage are now decoded at their highest source quality

Some footage used to look blurry because previously Influx was decoding them in YUV 420, especially Pixel Art or videos with high contrast like text in color (e.g. screen recordings)

Some color shifts are removed now

Video codecs : .360 (GoPro MAX Spherical), .Y4M (YUV4MPEG2) .MJPG (Motion JPEG / M-JPEG) .3GP (3GPP)

Images formats : .QOI (Quite OK Image Format), .JPG, .PNG, .TIFF

Audio codecs : .SPX (Speex), .DTS (DTS-HD Master Audio), .AC3 (Dolby AC-3), .AIFF

About GoPro MAX .360, it uses the Equi-Angular Cubemap (EAC) projection stored in two HEVC / H.265 video streams split horizontally ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_video_projection ). You can retrieve a specific video stream by renaming the file either with !vs=0.influx or !vs=1.influx and importing it with Influx

By default we will override files containing the AV1, FFV1, VP9, Opus, Vorbis, HEVC and Canopus codecs in the containers .MKV .WebM .MP4 .MOV .AVI

Global Settings have been redesigned, you have more options as to how Influx should behave regarding overriding Adobe

The top new dropdown now lets you customize Influx behavior, you can choose between "Force Influx to override all Adobe importers", "Use Influx for new formats, codecs and as a fallback (Default)", "Use Influx for new formats and as a fallback" or "Disable Influx Importer"

You can selectively choose to override specific formats extension with a new textarea

You can now import files that could not be imported before when only one stream was not compatible (Adobe bug), for example when the video codec was AV1 but the audio codec AAC, Adobe could not give Influx the file, now Influx will be able to import it nonetheless without any worry !

This feature can now be disabled globally in the Config.toml

The timecode was appearing with the wrong orientation sometimes, now fixed

You can run our Install and Uninstaller .exe in command line like this : 'start "Autokroma" /wait /b "InstallerOrUninstaller.exe" /S', for our uninstaller you can pass an argument to specify which product to uninstall like this : '-Uninstall_Influx'. Do not forget to run your Terminal as Administrator, otherwise you will need user interaction to confirm the Administrator rights prompt. This also works using Microsoft SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) to automate deployment

When launching our Installer in recent versions there was a "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device ?" yellow popup, now correctly replaced with the good Verified publisher blue popup

Stability improvements (Thanks John !)

Wrong internal framerate was used (Thanks Johannes)

Some audio files couldn't be imported (Thanks Sammuel !)

In rare cases the wrong frame was being decoded

New checkbox to disable Influx frame cache

New button to clear Premiere Pro cache, useful when you get weird behavior in PrPro and you want to reset it

New checkbox to disable warnings in Premiere Pro about frames not being found (happens on variable framerate VFR files)

Info available in our article https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Influx-Importer-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-After-Effects

Support and same features for Premiere Pro / Media Encoder 2019 onwards (v13+) and After Effects 2019 onwards (v16+) until 2022 included

Support and same features for Microsoft Windows 10 and Apple macOS Intel v10.14 (Mojave) onwards as well as Apple silicon (for example M1), more information about it here : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Apple-Silicon-ARM-M1-Compatibility-with-Adobe-Creative-Cloud-Autokroma

Adobe will try to use Influx if it cannot import a file natively, for example when a specific file or codec is not supported (even if the container is supported by Adobe it could fail !)

Suffix your video files with .influx to import them with Influx instead of natively by Adobe, this way you will know for sure it's not Adobe decoding the files. Could be useful for troubleshooting Adobe and working around its bugs. /!\ BEWARE : if Adobe imports the video stream but not the audio stream (for example because of an incompatible codec), it will import it on its own without Influx, hence without audio ! Even if Influx could decode audio. You should suffix with .influx to work around this

Use Premiere Pro's DogEars feature to confirm that Influx is being used to decode the files

For debugging purposes you have the choice in our Settings to enable always overloading Adobe default importers, and also the choice of disabling Influx to mimick uninstalling Influx without actually doing it

New .MKV .WebM .AVI .FLV .BIK .OGV .M4V .TS containers etc. as well as a lot of containers already supported by Adobe, can be useful for debugging Adobe's bugs (.MOV .AVI .BOV .MPG .MP4 .WAV .AAC .MXF .QT .MP3 .GIF .VOB etc.)

Video : FFV1, .BIK Bink V1, H264 AVC, H264 HEVC, ProRes, GoPro, Vidvox Hap, Canopus HQ, AV1

Audio : .FLAC, .OPUS, .OGG, Vorbis, .WMA, .MKA

Exact same set of features, containers and codecs on all apps and platforms (for example Windows Media .WMV .WMA .AVI on macOS)

We need your help for Magic Lantern .MLV support, please read our article here https://www.autokroma.com/blog/MLV-Magic-Lantern-RAW-How-to-Import-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-After-Effects

We need your help for Blackmagic CinemaDNG .DNG support, please read our article here https://www.autokroma.com/blog/CinemaDNG-Blackmagic-Compressed-How-to-Import-Adobe-Premiere-Pro-After-Effects

Premiere Pro : right click on a project item and click "Source Settings…"

Media Encoder : right click on render queue item and click "Source Settings…"

After Effects : right click on a project item -> "Interpret Footage" -> "Main…" and click the "More Options…" button at the bottom

You can also access them directly from the Desktop app , as written in our How to License Influx article