[Now released] Restore MKV Format Support

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Removing MKV Format support has a negative impact on the workflow of people that work with broadcasting software like OBS. Restore MKV support. Having native support for MKVs, even if they don't edit well without generating proxies, saves me a ton of time that I'd otherwise have to spend remuxing/transcoding files.

[Guest]

We still really need mkv support.
It's not about the codecs, really. We don't need any new codecs. Just allow importing mkv with all the codecs supported by Premiere as of today. H.264, H.265 - the most common ones.

[Sujit Panigrahii]

bump

[sketchy.dog]

This is a no brainer, please add it.

[default3r96fcl4u214]

I saw the new update came out today. Incredibly disappointed to see no support for MKV yet as well as no better color management options. Davinci Resolve is completely free and blows Premiere's color management out of the water. Adobe you have to fix this.

[Brian.Oz]

Come on Adobe! You have a great share of editing softwares (we paid) and don't allow MKV... In what world do you live?

[Roberto Gardener]

Please add MKV support

[jackthegiantkiller]

For the love of God, Adobe, take some of your huge freaking profits and cover the licensing costs of incorporating this codec. Stop being cheap and make it happen.

[defaultz33vaat145d2]

It's being worked on! Wooo! We did it guys!

[DryreL]

Finally they working on it

[Earth Oliver]

Amazing. Only took us four years of begging!

[Dislekzi4]

Finally.

[Steve Lucin]

This is great news!

[ronniediaz]

Awesome thank you Fergus for letting us know! Please keep us updated on progress. I will resubscribe to Adobe once mkv is restored.

[DarrenManden]

Well, it only took three years from the first message on here to support "being investigated". (Let's not think about how MKV was already supported, and then removed, because...reasons.).

Now, shock of all shocks, we're seeing a UserVoice update in the blisteringly fast time of only eleven months?

This totally makes the monthly subscription worth it!

[huot]

It's somewhere strange... We are not talking here about a new feature, but about bringing back a previous feature deliberately removed by Adobe, and we are all excited, almost ecstatic... Imagine if... No, don't... 😉

[Erich Beall]

+1

[jackthegiantkiller]

I think half the requests in here are people just begging for features to return that were unceremoniously removed 4 years ago to, you know, improve user experience.

[JMKxyz]

Had I known it was removed I would've waited to renew my subscription; unbelievable; what was wrong with leaving mkv unwrapping in the software suite? It's the best multimedia container format in my opinion; ffv1 in mkv has become the standard for archival houses and it's about **** time Adobe stops blocking it for no reason. BM DaVinci Resolve has no problem with mkv. It's open source FFS.

[adamfp]

This is crazy, why do I need to download handbrake and .net environment to work with a bog standard video codec? Why am I paying so much for this software?

[Hutch Harris]

Just realizing this today. A lot of software/screen recorder programs use mkv by default (looking at you, OBS). Looks like its being worked on but yeah, absolutely agree that mkv support should be a top priority... preferably above adding new features & UI tweaks.

EDIT/UPDATE: Okay apparently I'm a fool. 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.

Maybe a good way to remux even if your files weren't generated in OBS, but I haven't tested.

[Vishwa.Jay]

Having plugins is one thing, and there are a number of convertors that can provide workarounds. But these all waste an inordinate amount of time and resources that having the format as native would help avert.

Even having it convert natively would prevent having to switch apps, which might allow Premiere/AE/etc. to remain open on lower-resource systems, and it would also at least give the idea that the time is more productively spent in a single app.

EDIT: Really, REALLY looking forward to this as a potential future feature.

[autokroma]

Sure you're right. Another issue is that you might get .MKV support but not the specific audio or video codec you have in your .MKV, so you also need to open separate UserVoice request for each codec you need behind the MKV container

[Christoph241101382wiw]

Adobe is being silly. I'm running Premiere CC 2022. It refuses a MKV file but if I merely change the file's extension, without (!) remuxing into a different container format, Premiere accepts it! I couldn't believe it.
The support for MKV is clearly there, they just don't want to admit it.
We're using codecs that Adobe has supported for over a decade. Codec support is not the issue here. Supporting this container is.

[C187]

It's not like this is the first time people have asked for this to be back and it was dropped.

[Aitken Marketing]

A standard format for anyone recording and using OBS Studio - can't believe you can't import it.