[Now released] Restore MKV Format Support

Not supporting MKV is frustrating as ****, so why my upgrade?

Bring back MKV support. It is key to my work please.

It is insane MKV is no longer supported. And I hear people around the web claiming "it is a niche format". It is NOT niche and is WIDELY used in all sorts of places on the Internet. In fact, I'd say it's probably the most common container for web-downloaded media. Insane. Adding a tremendous amount of added work on the user's end for no clear reason and removing it unannounced. Terrible decision. If there were any application half as good I would already be gone.
For Adobe to just remove it and say "Sorry, you can't have this anymore. We never REALLY supported it" is asinine. Just put it back in. Whatever reason you really removed it probably isn't very good. Use your billions of dollars and fix it.

Adobe referring its users to third-party freeware for a common thing it used to do natively is, well, a bit odd.
And why cost your users extra time?

Why remove support for something that worked fine as far as I could tell? Seems rather counterproductive... Bring back MKV support please, videos downloaded from the WEB often use this container. Re-encoding or switching containers is impractical and a pain.

Right now at Adobe Premiere web page :
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html?promoid=PQ7SQBYQ&mv=other

"Premiere Pro is the industry-leading video editing software for film, TV, and the web."

"Any camera. Any format. Any platform."

Then you see this:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/2019/05/03/changes-to-mkv-format-support-in-premiere-pro-and-adobe-media-encoder.html#gs.f1ktzr

Which states that no one use MKV which is de facto industry standard for web/live streaming/live capture. And absolutely free format.
So it really seems like marketing, management and development each of them live in different world.
I am not really sure if they really know what they have done.

MKV please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What's wrong with Adobe is to remove older versions. Basically customers pay for a software, and are forced to update and to not be able to continue using previous features;
Anyway, can anyone send me some sample .MKV files you would like to import into Adobe Premiere Pro ? This is important for me
Thanks
Antoine

It seems pretty arrogant to just remove support for a video format that was working in your products for no good reason, whether it was or wasn't used by many. We pay for consistency, and your company has been consistently failing to provide this.

Please bring back support for the MKV file format. It's not rocket science.

So this is what they have said long time ago:
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https://blog.adobe.com/en/2019/05/03/changes-to-mkv-format-support-in-premiere-pro-and-adobe-media-encoder.html#gs.f1ktzr
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"We wanted to let you know that we will be removing support for the MKV file format in the next updates of Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder.

Our previous MKV file format was limited to decoding for playback. We have never offered support for encoding MKV, and overall usage of this format has been very low.

Users who need access to MKV files can consider third-party utilities. For rendering out video content for online platforms we encourage our users to take advantage of existing output options, such as H.264 and HEVC formats, which are widely used and supported."
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And you are left speechless.