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Nichelle Gruger
On Windows, OBS is a very popular and free screen recording software that I use. It has several options for formats, but for multi-channel audio formats, only MP4 and MKV will work. They recommend using MKV files since it will still save the file to the drive even if the OBS program crashes, while with MP4 files, it will not save to the drive if it crashes, so you'll lose the screen capture.
That being said, I have several dozens projects created with MKV files and up until version 13.1.2 everything was fine besides a few bugs that Premiere always has. In the latest update, 13.1.3, Adobe decided to remove support of MKV files in both Premiere Pro AND Media Encoder, so now all my old projects are useless and cannot be opened, AND I can't even convert the mkv files to another format since Media Encoder can't even import the files.
And yes, I've sent Adobe feedback on the other site, but that's completely useless. It's obvious they simply do not listen to customers, there's feedback requests from years ago with several hundred upvotes like people wanting time re-mapping faster than 1000% that STILL hasn't been implemented, so my new feedback requests with 3 upvotes are buried in the many pages of other feedback requests, and are likely to never be implemented.
By the way, the new version 13.1.3 that says it has a bunch of stability improvements is actually REALLY SLOW. Projects take twice as long to open now, and while editing, it's really sluggish compared to 2 hours ago when I was in 13.1.2..
It is a while since I have used it (I'm due to test this with OBS with my team soon, so this is something I need to look into anyway!), however looking at the documentation, there is an 'audio passthru' setting, which I interpret to mean that the audio will remain the same as what is put into it, and mux'd into the output file.
I recommend "professional video editors" start with "professional media". Software screen recorders don't really produce such. Use a hardware recorder for screen capture. Something like the following.
It's also good practice to convert footage to ProRes for example. Adobe even offers a solution for that; Media Encoder! They even offer ingesting footage and converting it upon import within Premiere! However, now I can't do that with mkv files! Premiere or Media Encoder does not allow me to ingest/import and convert mkv files to ProRes to edit efficiently.
What if you were given a hard drive full of mkv files to edit by a client? Adobe software used to be able to work with it, but up until two weeks ago, adobe software no longer can. So now we are forced to use third party applications when working with mkv was fine in 13.1.2 and older.
I would seriously consider turning down the job, as such a client isn't likely to be a professional, but a consumer who (very frequently, in my experience) brings unrealistic expectations about price and timing.
This post is about a feature that was supported and now is not supported. It acknowledges multiple reasons why someone might have MKV files rather than other formats, and only questions Adobe's choice to end support for it. An appropriate response should never be to denigrate other creators over what format they work in or which clients they choose to take on.
This response is a very elitist viewpoint. It denies the existence of many smaller comercial and non-professional clients such as churches, families & individuals, small businesses, etc. Some of these smaller ventures are bread-and-butter clients for many designers and editors including those just starting out, honing their skills, or just prefer smaller, more flexible jobs and clients.
Your refusal to take on these jobs only makes the pool of folks who will smaller. And that let's them charge better rates for doing so. If these are too small or too unprofessional for you to bother, good for you, that doesn't change anything about why Adobe chose to no longer support the format when they previously did so.
I upvoted it. Thanks. Based on the past, I bet that it will not be added back though. Especially since older requests with several hundred upvotes that haven't been implemented stay on the first page, which by default makes new, or smaller requests with less votes buried.
That being said, I found out that OBS has a feature that can remux the mkv files to .mp4 after recording, which is an extra step to what I've been doing for a while, but at least I don't have to actually waste time rendering the files, it'll remux instantly.
Premiere Pro supported file formats Apparently they added VFR support. All OBS MP4 recordings are in VFR which is why they have audio sync issues. Apparently if you drop this effect in it will sync up the audio and add and drop frames when necessary. Why this isn't a default feature or why in their right mind they would drop MKV I don't know but at least this is a decent if not non zero sum trade off.
Ya, Adobe seems to love to take something that's fine, and add something new and shiny that takes several releases to fully work, while simultaneously messing something up that used to work haha it never ends.
For example, in the latest version, I'm still experiencing a bug with time remapping that has existed for several versions. I've filled out the feedback form, but it's useless because they seem to not pay any attention to it. Anyway, the bug happens where to get around speed ramping a clip past 1000%, I change the clip speed to 1000%, then change the time-remapping of the clip to 10% making it the exact same again; then I start doing speed ramping and when I do, it instantly turns the clip to 1 frame length, and I need to expand it out to see it again, and sometimes it's not correct so I need to do it again. But on the other side, we now don't have support of .mkv files in the latest version! sweet!
Remuxing to mp4 still doesn't work as Premiere doesn't want to play in the correct framerate of the video. I'm assuming this has to do with how OBS remuxes in VFR? It's a shame Adobe keeps removing features and adding other before tackling the loads of old bugs. Would love a solid fix from Adobe if they won't bring the feature back with already hundreds of votes since last summer.
I've remuxed this video SEVERAL times and I can not get this to work. I've remixed with OBS, FFMPEG, Handbrake, VLC, XMedia Recode, you name it. Every time I import it only gives me an audio file. Why?? I can play the mp4 just fine in file explorer, why is after effects only seeing it as an audio file???
Hey Neil. I appreciate the reply. Unfortunately the footage was not recorded by me and was sent by a studio. I did end up being able to fix it though! VLC has a fantastic conversion method that allows container transfers without re-encoding the video. I was able to take the 70 minute 4K clip and convert it without issues or loss of quality.
I've been using my OneDrive storage to store video files I've created over the years. They are almost all in mk4 format or mp4 format. Now I want to make some type of sharepoint site to play the videos. Mostly because video playback is a hassle. I don't intend for this to be public facing, this is just for my own amusement(and also to learn).
@Juan Carlos Gonzlez Martn Yes, Stream has its merits, but it's lacking quite a bit in functionality. I also have several hundred GBs of educational *.mkv files that my teaching staff have gathered over the years. You can't upload *.mkv files to Stream so they need to be reencoded into *.mp4, which I would be willing to do even if it takes a lot of time, but I'm not willing to compromise on other areas like being able to choose the subtitle tracks that are included in the *.mkv files. Playing an *.mkv file with VLC works everywhere with full functionality. So either allow VLC to be integrated as a playback option in Teams or Sharepoint, or update the codecs on Teams and Sharepoint so that *.mkv files with different subtitles and/or language tracks can be uploaded and played backwith all expected functionality.
HTML5 doesn't support any video formats, or rather HTML5 doesn't specify what formats browsers should support. It's up to the browsers to decide which formats they choose to support. Apparently Chrome plays .mkv, but I wouldn't be surprised if other browsers didn't play the same file.
The website has probably set the mimetype of the file to video/webm. Chrome will open this inline rather than forcing a download (because otherwise it doesnt know what to do with it or how to open it).
I'd be surprised if browsers didn't support mkv, as the webm container is just a restricted version of the matroska format. Beyond that you'd have to check the codec of the video inside, and ensure your browser can handle that. If the video format is VP8 or VP9 and the audio is Opus or Vorbis it's webm compliant and might as well be renamed as such. Note that H.264, H.265 and MP3 are not webm compliant and you should avoid using that extension on files that include those formats, the video would still play but it would technically break the webm specification and is frowned upon.
So I'm trying to make a YouTube video and I have recorded some gameplay and some facecam footage. When I went over to edit in Kdenlive (my video editor of choice) I tried to import my facecam footage (.mkv formatted) which was shot using the default camera app on my Chromebook. It crashed Kdenlive but before it crashed I looked at the time it predicted to be the end of the video which seemed to be extraordinarily long! Just dragging the clip to my timeline caused my computer to freeze up and then the program to eventually crash. I opened the clip in VLC and the playhead doesn't even move. In fact, VLC says that the video is 0 minutes and 0 seconds long even though I know for a fact that it is 42 minutes long. Attempting to move the playhead makes strange artifacts appear on my video clip and then the playhead jumps to 0:00 and it plays fine. This is extremely frustrating because I don't know how I can convert this so that it has a correct start and end time. I cannot edit the video of course because my video editor tries to import an infinite (or at least really massive) video. Strangely enough it plays fine in the Google Drive video player and I believe the native Chrome OS video player.
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