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Adobe can’t even handle MKV video files

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
November 23, 2016
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Adobe Premier Pro is the worst product ever. And the fact they are not even benchmarking with competitors reveals how the decision makers are. How can you claim to be a pro video platform and you can't even handle an MKV file. Davinci Resolve eats you up without trace. Everything you can do, Davince Resolve does it better and more. Aren't you guys ashamed? Instead of wasting money on you events at least handle all video files since you are all about video. Do the small things first. None sense

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Warren Heaton

Community Expert

If you'd like to see this in Premiere Pro, please vote for it.

I'm not sure how many votes it will get though. From a professional video editing perspective, MKV is a final delivery format. It's not source footage for a professinal edit.

I'm hoping Resolve supports kerning text in the upcoming version 19. Unless someone is doing all textless video edits or doesn't care about video graphic best practices, I'm not sure how they're supposed to finish a project in Resolve. I know Resovle editors who do their title cards in Photoshop which works, but it just seems the feature should be there.

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi @Creatives Genius,

Sorry for the disappointment. See this feature request. Please upvote here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/restore-mkv-format-support/idi-p/13515932

The product team is actively working on the feature. See Fergus' comment here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/restore-mkv-format-support/idc-p/13525101#M7268

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

John T Smith

Community Expert

MKV is NOT supported
-https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/converting-mkv-files/td-p/10610163?page=1
-VLC https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/Simple-lossless-conversion-of-mkv-files-Matroska-to-mp4/td-p/8785670
-and another https://community.adobe.com/t5/Premiere-Pro/Importing-MVK-files-into-Premiere-Pro-all-versions/td-p/4943577

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dorraj

Participant

CC 2017 just came out, and I was majorly disappointed to find out that MKV (Matroska) files are still not supported. There are posts dating back to 2012 about this. A lot of high-quality online videos are shared as MKV files, as the container is only getting more and more popular. Windows 10 even announced that they will support MKV right out of the box in 2014. Here it is, 2017, and somehow, Adobe Premiere Pro still does not support MKV. How? The most basic of video players out there nowadays support MKV, how does the best video editor software still not support it??

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Premiere Pro is designed for professionals.

Professionals just don't use that format.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

That is hardly a reason to not include support for it. Premiere Pro is designed for professionals, but that doesn't mean only professionals are the ones who use it. How is adding support for something bad? Getting more people to use your products since it has good compatibility sounds like a win to me.

That is hardly a reason to not include support for it.

It's actually a pretty good reason, I think.

If the bulk of your customers don't need the feature, why spend limited resources adding it?

It would make a lot more sense for Premiere Elements to add that support.

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