ADDING INTROS AND OUTROS TO VIDEOS

[RJMakiu]

Hey there

I was just wondering if anyone knew how to add intro and outro sequences into videos.I have tried searching for it in my pc's local files but have come to realise there is a good chance that it may not recognise it as I placed it onto my computer as a MKV file.Any ideas on which file would Adobe Premiere Pro pick up the file on?

Any help would be massively appreciated.Kinda new to Adobe Premiere and so kinda working out the kinks still

Cheers

Yours Sincerely

Rj

[excited_Genie16B8]

Adobe Premiere Pro Learn & Support

[gerikp]

If you have an MKV file that you want to use in Premiere Pro you'll want to convert it to a different format because Premiere Pro doesn't recognized an MKV file. Here's a list of supported file formats - Premiere Pro CC supported file formats

You'll want to use software like Handbrake that can convert your MKV file in to a file that is supported such as MP4, MOV, or AVI.

[RJMakiu]

Hey man

Yea in the end I downloaded a program to convert the files to a MP4 format to be able to add them in

Cheers for that anyway bro  

Yours Sincerely

RJ

[EuroSiti]

Don't convert the video, unless the format isn't supported by PP.

If it's just the container that isn't supported, you are wasting both time and image quality, if you do that without first checking the formats (codecs) of the contained video and audio streams. You can do that with VLC media player. Just load the video. Then click on Tools > Codec settings... Let us know what it says under 'Codec' for the two streams?

If the video format is H.264 AVC or 'mpeg4', you can simply remux (container swap) it with a free (and safe) video editor like XMedia Recode. Just load the file. Set a destination path. Set output Custom>MP4. Then select the 'Video' tab. Set Mode = Copy. Do the same on the 'Audio' tab (if the audio is an advanced format like DTS or Dolby True HD you need to convert it to AC3 or AAC). Then click 'Add to queue' > 'Encode'... A few seconds later you have a 1:1 copy of your video in an MP4 container.

We can only guess about Adobe's reasons for not supporting the Matroska container. My current best guess is that it's because MKV doesn't use a fixed metadata format like XMP (developed by Adobe). The technically unrestricted nature of the Matroska container is generally assumed to be the reason why it has so limited support in commercial editing software. Really hegemonic software patent holders like Apple might also have specific commercial interests in not supporting MKV and other open standards, but I doubt that this is the case for Adobe.