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Restore MKV Format Support

LEGEND ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.
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Adobe Employee , Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Hi all,

MKV support is actively being worked on. I don't have a release date to share currently but when that changes, I will update this message.

Regards,

Fergus

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Contributor ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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Also, it's not just about .MKV : which codecs do you need support for ? Please send us your sample files ! We'll make it work with Influx Importer for Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects https://www.autokroma.com/Influx

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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I can't believe this isn't in Premiere yet.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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bump

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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This is a no brainer, please add it.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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Please add MKV support

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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

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Explorer ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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Finally they working on it

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Mentor ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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Amazing. Only took us four years of begging!

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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Finally.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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This is great news!

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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

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Participant ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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!

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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... 😉

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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+1

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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Explorer ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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?

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Participant ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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

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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023

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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.

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