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January 24, 2023
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[Now released] Restore MKV Format Support

  • January 24, 2023
  • 297 replies
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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.

297 replies

Participant
January 24, 2023
Please bring it back
I deal with a lot of MKV content,
especially with OBS Studio
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Please bring it back. I deal with a lot of MKV content, especially with OBS Studio
Participant
January 24, 2023
Please, bring back support for MKV, I have many projects that uses source files in this format and I use them again in other projects, converting then to another format will be disastrous and pain taken.
Participant
January 24, 2023
Couldn't believe it when I fired up ME to discover that MKV import was unsupported

Severely limit's the usefulness of the app in a Broadcast environment
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Can anyone share some .MKV files they would like to import into Premiere Pro ?
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
Unfortunately OBS produces VFR files so it will be buggy anyway
Participant
January 24, 2023
Me too.
I don't need MKV encoding capability, which you never supported (and I never needed!), but please bring back the MKV decoding capability, which had been supported before and is still needed to import the default livestream recording format from OBS in particular into Adobe Premiere.
I haven't had to do an "ingest" step (which is what this forced file conversion is like) since I used a competitor's NLE software a long time ago.
Earth Oliver
Legend
January 24, 2023
Vanessa, the good news is that you can use File>Remux in OBS to convert your mkv to mp4 and then they're usable in Premiere. The conversion only takes 1 or 2 seconds.
vanessak71654703
Participant
January 24, 2023
100% agree, just recorded a long live session on OBS, absolutely gutted when I discovered that I cant edit or modify my MKV...
chrisf16661207
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
please reimplement this functionality, not being able to edit mkv is very irritating