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Restore MKV Format Support

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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  • angelo amatruda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The audio present in my MKV clips is Flac 98000kbps, 16-bit, stereo.

    Handbrake is the only way to deal with MKV. Re-encoding is the best I've seen so far.
    Being able to select different devices to help with encoding is very cool and helps speed things up.

  • angelo amatruda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    thanks for the link suggestion, so easy. MP4 added

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a30d0clm07qwvtm/AAB7R-VuOksGEYWyAfdgAYRca?dl=0

    I'm just gonna give up with using MKV. Playback does work, No Audio. I have an old version of Premiere Pro.

    I'll try other software, for the best encoding i can find. Magix Vegas Pro, does have a "MKV Experimental" Tick box option. i might start with that.

    On the Plus side. I've learnt lots of new things dealing with instance.

  • Antoine Autokroma commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Angelo, couldn't connect on the dropbox because of 2 Factor Authentification. However you can just "share a link" with dropbox and anyone with the link will be able to download it !
    Thanks

  • angelo amatruda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Antoine, i've made a quick 7 second clip from my phone. its about 50MB. Hi-res Audio, 4k, 60fps, MKV. How do upload the clip? I can't attach it.

    I've done a bit of study. Most containers cant handle the various audio technologies, apart from MKV and encoding to other formats seems to cause audio issues. Which ill try myself.

    After analyzing my clip, I'm interested in your opinion Antoine.

    Eric, i've tried what you suggested. No Joy. Playback always worked. But proxies and exporting in MKV seems impossible.

  • angelo amatruda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just spent the last few hours+ trying to understand why I couldn't create proxies with 4k 60fps footage from my phone.
    Reason the phone changes the format when using Hi-res Audio to MKV! When using 3D-audio the format is mp4.

    Come on Abode, can't you see your loosing out, by not supporting a format used by millions devices!

    I don't want to spend the time re-encoding and I'm not sure exactly how that would affect the Audio.

    Nice one Eric, I'll give that a go.

  • Karel D.C. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Am doing a massive found footage project, with 800 feature films in MKV. Working on the older version and then switching to Resolve permanently, removing features is a complete joke Adobe.

  • Connor Danielson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just bought a monthly subscription only a couple hours ago and of course, the main file format I enjoy working with and prefer overall is no longer supported! Way to go, Adobe. Once this month is up, I'll probably be canceling my subscription to look elsewhere for other editing software that's actually capable of doing what I need it to do.

  • Matthias Hofmann commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would love to see MKV format in Premiere Pro! Waiting for videos to convert to an importable format is such a waste of time, resources and energy. Switching away from MKV would be tedious, because if the capture session crashes, all data would be lost.

  • Mickey Malone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is dumb. You need to support the MKV format. It is used for live stream backups over other formats due to it's fault tolerance.

  • DANIEL TAYLOR commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm a paying customer and I guess I'm going to have to resort to piracy to use an older version lmao

    **** adobe and their entire team.

  • Mark Bennison commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thank you Eric Victory, saved me hours with a number of projects where I was recorded in OBS and had been doing voice-over work, etc and just needed a nice intro to them all before publishing before MVK was removed from my version of PP (not sure how I managed to use them up until very recently).

    I did as Eric suggested, Duplicate the ImporterMPEG.prm and rename ImporterMKV.prm in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder CC 2019\Plug-Ins\Common

    My MKVs are now back to normal. Now to quickly complete these projects while I have access!

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