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Creatives Genius
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November 23, 2016
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Adobe can’t even handle MKV video files

  • 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
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    Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 3, 2023

    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
    Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 4, 2023

    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
      John T SmithCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 1, 2023

      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
      November 23, 2016

      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
      November 23, 2016

      Premiere Pro is designed for professionals.

      Professionals just don't use that format.

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        excited_Genie16B8
        Legend
        February 24, 2017

        Jim_Simon  skrev

        Premiere Pro is designed for professionals.

        Professionals just don't use that format.

        I believe a professional archivist from the MEDIACONCH project under the EU funded PREFORMA project pool sent a formal request to Adobe regarding FFV1 video and MKV container support on behalf of a very large number of professional cultural heritage institutions (including film archives, records offices, private (business) archives and museums) back in autumn 2016.

        Obviously cultural heritage institutions don't have an awful lot of money to spend compared to broadcasters or the advertising industry. But this also means they probably tend to care a bit more about open standards and optimal storage formats for long term preservation.

        Unlike far more closed software solutions like Final Cut, it should in fact be possible to add custom plugins to Premiere that could enable FFV1 and MKV support. Just not sure if there is any plugin available at this point. But the finalization of the MKV+FFV1 standards will presumably be ready here in 2017.

        If the option to edit FFV1 in MKV in Premiere, FCP or Sony Vegas don't become available sometime soon, it will indeed have a very negative impact on the PREFORMA standardization project. And that would be a real shame. ProRes might look nice, but it isn't a real lossless format, and very much restricted to Apple's own products. That's just not a viable solution for our digital cultural heritage.


        a very large number of professional cultural heritage institutions

        I'd wager that "very large number" is actually pretty small when compared to the total number of industry professionals.

        Like any company, Adobe goes where the market is.  Enough people start using MKV, Adobe is likely to add support.

        I just don't see that happening any time soon.

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