[Now released] Restore MKV Format Support

Half Year to add a codec support? Whats happening with adobe? Can I change to Resolve to take some features?

"Your core scenario is exactly how we also think of this: that Premiere Pro should be a Swiss Army knife when it comes to formats supports"

Fergus H,

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@Clint W.  I'm sorry that this is taking longer than we'd expected. Your core scenario is exactly how we also think of this: that Premiere Pro should be a Swiss Army knife when it comes to formats supports. While it is no excuse, I will say that this work involved entirely rewriting our MKV support and not just restoring what was already there. 

Regards,

Fergus

P.S. While we fully intend for MKV support to be delivered by Adobe and to be first class, it has always been possible for anyone to create OBS Importers and Exporters, using the Premiere Pro C++ SDK. The SDK isn't open source but developers can ship the plugins they create however they like.

July 2024 here.  How long exactly does it take to restore support for something that used to work?

The core scenario is "Adobe Premiere should accept content from any source its customers might be editing, which increasingly includes POPULAR applications such as OBS that default to .MKV over ProRes and traditional containers and codecs."

At a minimum, move support for things like this to an open source plug-in model and let us support it if you don't want to.

I can't understand why Premiere doesn't support the popular file extension .mkv, which can be played and used by the extremely limited Windows Media Player. It's supposed to be the best video editor, but it can't handle a simple file. Now I must get an "amateur" video editor to handle the file. Terrible.

Mod note: The title was changed, and the discussion was moved to the Ideas forum.

Premiere Pro STILL has the audio pop bug from imported .mp4 remuxxed OBS .mkv files!!!!! How is this still a thing? This has existed for years!! I've created another bug report in the past, and have mentioned it to Adobe directly via Twitter several times.

I'm tired of importing screen recordings from OBS and then the audio POPS at random places. I have confirmed it is PREMIERE causing it because if I close Premiere and open it up again, the pop sound goes away, then as I use Premiere, it will show up again in a new spot.

The issue wouldn't be so bad if Premiere didn't export the pop!!! If it exists during timeline playback, then it will render into the final export!!! It's something to do with audio cache files with Adobe. If it happens, I can even send it to Adobe Audition and see the pop in the waveform there, select it a heal it to remove it, then it goes away. Or if I simply tab out of Premiere and don't use it for a few minutes, if I tab back it, the pop will fix itself!!! Extremely frustrating because it's inconsistent.

I'm on Mac OS 13.6.3, but it also happened on Mac OS 12. I've used several versions of OBS as well. For some reason, Premiere doesn't like .mp4 files from OBS that were remuxxed from .mkv files. Not sure if this has to do with Premiere deciding to remove support of .mkv files and there's a bug happening somehow, but when they removed support of .mkv files, I was FORCED to remux files to .mp4 to edit my screen recordings! So in either scenario, the Adobe team created this problem for no reason. There's a giant thread with over a dozen pages of comments on this forum regarding bringing back .mkv support. It makes absolutely no sense why Adobe would even remove it in the first place!!! Media encoder can't even import the file!! It's a joke. The point of media encoder is to ENCODE MEDIA!! but it can't!!

Anyway, it's extremely frustrating that in the latest version of Premiere, this is STILL happening. Everything version of Premiere in the last 3-4 years has had this issue. FIX IT. Im sick of paying for a product that doesn't work, or at least stop taking away features like .mkv support that worked just fine.

Whoever is making these decisions at Adobe should not be in charge. These decisions are making the lives of paying customers WORSE

I really do not understand Adobe's silence on this, for a while we at least had a conversation going with Fergus and other team members and now we are back to the radio silence we received in their previous Uservoice. Can somebody, anybody at Adobe, deign to update us?

I couldn't agree more with this feature request.  Adobe, it's long past time you brought back support for MKV.  

Our use case: we make video games.  We capture hours of footage via OBS for content creation, trailer footage, bug testing, and Games User Research.  Since OBS's support for m4v has a limitation that the entire recording must be completed before the video file is saved, MKV is the far-preferred format since it can write in chunks as it goes along, thereby reducing the risk of losing hours of recording footage upon a crash (just happened to me yesterday, in fact).

Your current workfow requires that we convert hours of footage from MKV to m4v via VLC before we can even injest the footage into premiere for editing.  This is absurd in this day and age (March 2024 as of this writing). 

PLEASE restore support for MKV into Premiere Pro.  We're begging you.

Hi @Fergus H - would you mind pinning either my or @Jake_Sherlock's earlier posts with notes on how to remux in OBS? This thread shows up as a top result searching for how to use MKVs in Premiere, but the solve has wound up being a little buried. Repasting my post below. Thanks!

For anyone else using OBS, it actually comes with its own remux tool to convert your MKVs to MP4s extremely quickly without quality loss.
File > Remux Recordings - then pick your source & destination.

So it's been almost a year since you told us this was being "actively" worked on. How much longer is this going to take? All I can assume at this point is that Adobe is still squabbling over licensing? Sure would be nice to see some of those "record profits" going towards improving the user experience vs investors pockets.

Also, where is Fergus these days? He stopped commenting in here entirely, but also hasn't commented in any forum since Nov 01, 2023.