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How to use .MKV and .ISO with Premiere Pro? They are not supported.

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April 6, 2012
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Hi all. My brother in-law sent us two .mkv videos and a DVD .iso he wants me to use in a video I am cutting for him. The only trouble is, I've no idea how to get them into a format PremPro can handle.

I've searched and the only solutions I have found are infinitely complicated for me. Avisynth is certainly beyond me.

Anyone know of a way to convert .mkv (info lists 942x720 H.264 4:2:0 YUV MPEG4 AVC) into something useable?

Same question for an ISO file.

Thanks much

By the way, this is not for anything 'important' nor am I getting paid, so I have no budget tp purchase software. I am sure there must be a free solution.

I tried this trial version software...

http://www.moyea.com/import-flv/

But it would NOT install. It just errored in a loop and was unable to find or understand I have CS5 PremPro.

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excited_Genie16B8

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I use XMedia Recode myself to create Firefox friendly HTML5 videos. No problems to report with that installed on the edit system.

TheWallyDee

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I know this is an older thread but the issue still persists: How to import an .mkv into Premiere Pro?

Short answer - as far as I can tell - you can't.

But you can simply use a free tool called tsMuxeR

In tsMuxeR - click 'Add' to choose your .mkv file, then click 'Start muxing'.

That will output the stream as a.ts file and Premier Pro will be able to handle it just fine.

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josuemolina

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ADAPTER from Macroplant should solve this problem for anyone editing with an MKV (Matroska) file. It's extensive file support will help you convert to mp4, mov, or avi. This is good for both Mac and PC. Plus its FREE.

try it: http://www.macroplant.com/adapter/

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EuroSiti

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Does Adapter have a Direct Stream Copy option?

That way you don't have to actually convert the video & audio streams ( = quality loss). There is no reason to convert the actual streams.

The video has most likely already been MPEG4/H264 compressed when the MKV file was created.

A really good conversion tool will allow you to simply change the file container without transcoding the audio & video streams again - plus it saves quite a lot of time if it's a long video.

TEncoder has this feature - and it's also free.

But of course: You still have to bear in mind that the MP4 container is much more restrictive than the Matroska container, so you might be forced to convert anyway.

Lack of MKV support is usually an indication of commercial arrogance.

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excited_Genie16B8

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Lack of MKV support is usually an indication of commercial arrogance.

Not again...

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DeeJay Lyon

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Use VLC to transcode (no audio or video recompression) MKV to TS and that will import in CS5.

Jeff Bellune

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Off-topic replys branched and moved. Use the link at the top of this thread. Or this one:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4360196#4360196

Jeff

EDIT: EuroSiti did offer this workaround for the OP:

Here's a workaround:

Use the freeware tool Avidemux to extract the H.264 AVC video stream from the MKV container.

Hopefully Premiere Pro will let you import that H.264 video file. Edit it and export it as a video stream again afterwards.

Then remux the H.264 stream with MKVmerge (also free). Open the original MKV file in MKVmerge and replace the old video stream with your edited version.

That way you may be able to preserve the advanced indexing and multiple audio+subtitle tracks in the Matroska file.

Good luck.

Harm_Millaard

Inspiring

For the .ISO first burn it to disk and then copy the .VOB files to your hard disk and import those into your project. Notice this will only work if the .ISO is FULLY DVD compliant. If not, then you have to figure out your own approach. For the Matroska files, I haven't the faintest idea.

The best approach however is to ask your brother in law for the source material, since Matroska and ISO are not meant to be edited.