How Can i import MKV in Premiere CS5.5

[Guest]

Hello

How Can i import MKV in Premiere CS5.5?

Please help me

thank you so much

[excited_Genie16B8]

if you guys will really need MPG2 native like support in PProCS6, will have to get this codec pack.

For others reading this, I want to make it clear that third-party codecs are not required for PP to work properly.  Premiere Pro comes with support for most camera standard MPEG formats, and with that I've found that many, many non-standard MPEG files also work just fine.  Not all of them, certainly, but many.

Matroska seems to belong to the etc class.

Actually it doesn't.  Etc. in this context meant all the other standardized formats that professionals routinely work with.  MKV is not yet on that list.  Some day it may be, and if so Adobe will probably add support.  But until then...

It can of course cause problems with Premiere or AE, but many other commercial as well as open programs can cause same kind of issues.

Very true.  And if you're unlucky enough to be in that boat, the recommendation would be the same.  Wipe the System drive and reinstall everything from the OS on up, minus the problematic programs, of course.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Of corse commercial software producers allways have warnings against freeware

That is not what's going on here.  Adobe actually recommends free codecs when appropriate.  (DNxHD and UT are two examples.  Scroll to page bottom.)

http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/audio-video-glitches-avchd.html

The warning about K-Lite comes from a LOT of users' negative experience using it.  Just because you've successfully played Russian Roulette thus far doesn't make it a safe game to play.

[seelenfaenger]

It's been a few months but since is among the first results showing up when searching for Premiere + MKV, I have to ask: How would installing a Codec Pack "require a complete reformat of your boot disk and a complete fresh install of OS and programs"?

[Guest]

that allow you to create MKVs from MP4, H264 and that

No, want to Create a video (Supported in premiere pro) from .MKV

I think you said the opposite

Thanks

[antoniocasado]

You want to import a MKV in Premiere, isn´t?. You can´t do it directly. If you convert to anything, you can loss data in the process (unless you choose a uncompressed format). So the best thing is to "unwrap" the MKV and import the resulting file to Premiere, that can may accept it (as are probably h264) without problem.

Next you can edit it, of course.

This is the best to avoid recompressing data.

Maybe in a future Premiere can import MKV directly. I can import a MOV of a Canon, but if these MOV I wrap it in MKV, cannot import it (and it´s the same data, NOT recompressed, only wrapped) 😉

[konspiri]

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  May 4, 2012 2:25 PM    in reply to Hsheibani 

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No, is a demultiplexator, it will extract the video, audio and subtitles (if any) tracks, without recompress it. So you retain the original quality 😉

But you need first to install MKVToolnix (that allow you to create MKVs from MP4, H264 and that)

Next, you import the audio and video tracks to Premiere 😉

I can't import it "File format not supported".

[Guest]

Hi Hsheibani, after demux the mkv file, mux the H264 file in an mp4 container. ("My MP4Box GUI" software is a good option to do it)

In this way you will not recompress the video file.

Then you can import the new mp4 file into Premiere without any problem.

[kadajawi]

The simplest fix (that works for me, in CS6) is to rename the file to AVI. That's all. It won't take Ogg Vorbis audio it seems, but other than that... it will even take h264 video in the Hi10P format, which the built in AVC/h264 decoder won't support properly.

As for why use Matroska... it takes everything, flawlessly, and has extremely easy tools to mux. I transcode all my videos as my camera makes gigantic files, and there is no way I can save them without investing into more hard drives. At very high x264 settings the videos look just as good, but with significantly smaller files. I can easily create a batch to transcode audio and video and pack it into an MKV file. I did manage to do the same for the MP4 container, but it was much, much harder. MP4 lacks proper tools for muxing that are easy to use.

Also, instead of K-Lite I'd much rather use LAV-Filter or ffdshow. Both can decode almost anything,

[kadajawi]

Ok. I did notice one tiny problem with this: It works when you IMPORT the AVI file into the project. Or when the files are offline and you replace them. But I've had Premiere crash with 2 or 3 AVI files in the project already. Tried to start it again, and then it worked. etc. Maybe it tries to open all the files at the same time, which can cause problems...? I suppose there is no way to limit this...

Some more testing: If you have the list of available clips that are imported already as a list, everything runs fine. Once you go to the thumbnail view it may crash, as it tries to calculate the thumbnails. It's not exactly ideal... maybe a different codec or splitter may be more robust when many files are opened at the same time.

Also while audio initially seemed to work... I believe... I get some horrible noise now, even though the source is AAC. There are some issues I'd say...

One more edit: ffdshow completely fails for video, it doesn't display anything if I use that to decode the h264 stream, LAV filter works best. Audio has the best chances of working when it is in a MKV container... AAC in the MP4 container worked when it was a stereo 48000 Hz stream... but at mono and 32000 Hz it fails, giving that noise. The same stream, 32000 Hz and mono, but in a MKV container works flawless.

Conclusion, so far:

Basically the basic trick is to rename it to AVI... that may or may not work, depending on the files and the codec. At least with the LAV filter splitter, I haven't tried other splitters. You may have to experiment which codec works best. It seems like by using AVI Premiere will let Windows handle the file, it will use whatever codec is the default codec in Windows. If you run into problems, try another container. It seems like MKV will give you the best results, at least over MP4.

What I haven't tried yet is if you can edit precisely, or if frames are skipped when you go back... this can also depend on the codec and what not, so please be careful, test, and let us know.

[Guest]

Just upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
It supports the mkv format and treats it just like another media file. ( It takes a bit extra time to encode it for your premiere projects)
Though this is an old thread but many are still seeking answer to how to import MKV file into adobe premiere. Its 2014 and a lot has changed with Adobe products, thanks to Adobe people who are listening to our problems and suggestions.

[excited_Genie16B8]

In my testing, Premiere Pro CC still does not support the MKV format.  Those files don't even show up for import.

[Guest]

@ Jim Simon: You don't have to use Menu>File>Import for that. Just drag and drop mkv file in 'Project window'. I have done it many times ever since I upgraded to premiere CC 7.2.2 and it works.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Even doing that, I get a File Format Not Supported error.

[Guest]

@ Jim Simon: I have no clue why it is not working for you, as far as on my macbook pro, it works easy as piece of cake. As I type this message to you, I am working directly on mkv file on premiere.
What I can think of is; since mkv is just a container it can contain many files of different formats, most of the mkv files I have worked on have H.264 Video format and AAC audio inside it.
The probability is that the mkv file you are using has an unsupported format inside. You should try with a few more files. Let me know if it works for you, meanwhile I will try with mkv files with other formats in it.
I will post which ones are not acceptable on this thread.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Same here, H.264 with AAC audio.  I did try several.  The format itself is simply not supported in PP.  That you have it working seems the anomaly.

[Todd_Kopriva]

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