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Does Premiere Pro Support Mkv?

James H. Sterling • • 6 min read
Does Premiere Pro Support Mkv?

MKV files (or Matroska Video files) are a multimedia container format

container format
A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams.
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file that first came into use in 2002. ... Fortunately there is a workaround for Premiere Pro users trying to edit MKV files: all you have to do is convert your MKV files into a format which is supported by Premiere Pro.

Why does Premiere Pro not support MKV?

Where did Adobe say that they removed MKV support due to performance/compatibility problems? MKV is not a CODEC. It's a container format, like AVI, and MOV. MKV can contain CODECS that Premiere already supports, and MKV is open source.

Does converting MKV to MP4 lose quality?

If you only want to change the container from MKV to MP4, you usually don't need to encode anything, you just change the "wrapping" around the video. This doesn't lose quality, and it'll be a much faster process.

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