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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
    Community Expert
    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.

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        July 8, 2017

        We all know this is happening right now with our feature requests lol

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        Actually, not at all ... the things are delivered to the managerial types (and several layers I understand) in some tabulated format. So the people who decide budgets and The Path Forward all get them. And apparently need to read through every one.

        There are a few things to consider though ... there are rather a lot of them, and from talking with a couple different program managers, many of the more common requests are ... well ... hardly practical or of interest to any regular user. To be polite. So when parsing the numbers, one has to deal with some decent numbers of things most of us wouldn't want them to waste time on.

        Also ... the program managers are one of the people getting a say in what's done. But only one. I don't know how many layers of management may be involved, this is all kept rather murky it seems ... but there seem to be several. And with different parts of the company ... with different ideas as to what the User Base would or should want of their own.

        And within each program, the manager may be more or less interested in different features & parts of the programs. Therefore more or less interested in spending what part of the budget he/she actually controls on ... what.

        Having dealt with the new head of PrPro back when he was the head of SpeedGrade at NAB, I do rather like his outlook on relating with the U-B.

        I've put in a lot of requests myself ... and actually have I think two that have made the product, but ... that product (SpeedGrade) ... seems moribund at the moment. Alas.

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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