MKV to Premiere Pro CC Workflow

Summary: Premiere Pro CC crashes when browsing, importing your MKV files? Get MKV to Premiere Pro CC workflow and the best solution to the issue from this article.

About Premiere Pro:
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes video editing, graphic design, and web development programs. This professional editing software supports high resolution video editing at up to 10,240 *8,192 resolution, at up to 32-bits per channel color, in both RGB and YUV. Audio sample-level editing, VST audio plug-in support, and 5.1 surround sound mixing are available. The newest version is Premiere Pro CC. Premiere Pro CC supports a wide variety of video and audio file formats and codecs on both Mac OS and Windows, but the software can't read MKV files.
Tips: Adobe Premiere Pro supported formats
About MKV:
The MKV is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of audio, video, subtitle tracks or picture in one file. This format offers a richer media experience than any other current format, this makes MKV a popular choice for making back-ups of DVD and Blu-ray discs that you could also play on a computer connected to a TV. Many editing software users needs to edit MKV files, but their program doesn't supports MKV importing, Premier Pro is one of them.

How to let Premiere Pro read MKV files? Perhaps some Adobe program users want to download Premiere Pro MKV plugin, but there isn't MKV plugin for Premiere Pro CC/CS6/CS5. So MKV to Premiere Pro Converter will be a great help. To get the work done, you can just get Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac (review), which can help you convert MKV to Premiere Pro supported video codec with optimized settings while keeping the video quality. In addition, it can convert all other popular video formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, MXF, FLV, ASF, M2TS, VOB, etc. to Premiere Pro compatible video formats. Now get the tool and add MKV files into Premiere Pro CC effortlessly.

                     

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How to convert MKV to Premiere Pro CC?

Step 1: Download and have a quick installation. The trial version will have a watermark on your converted files. Except for that, there are no time limitation, no virus, and no unnecessary bundle apps while downloading. After that, click “Add Video” button to load your MKV files. You can load several files at once thanks to “Add from folder” button.



Step 2: Click the “Format” bar to get the drop-down menu and you can get “Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas”. Choose “MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format.



Step 3: Click “Settings” button to customize the output video and audio settings by yourself. But if you are not good at it, you’d better use the default parameters, they will ensure you a good balance between file size and image quality basically. You can change the resolution, bit rate, frame rate as you need.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button on the bottom of the screen to start MKV to MPEG-2 MPG conversion process. The amount of time it takes will vary based on your system’s hardware and the quality settings you selected.

Conclusion: When the conversion is done, you can click “Open” button to get the generated video files. Now, you can edit MKV in Premiere Pro CC freely.

Further Reading:

• Convert Multi-audio Channels MXF with Original Audio Tracks Preserved
• Solve the freezes when importing MTS media to Premiere CC-2015.3
• How to Import and Convert MKV to iMovie 11/10/9?
• Edit HC-X1000 4K AVCHD in Sony Vegas Pro 13/12/11
• Sony Alpha a7II Workflow with Premiere Pro CC/After Effects CC