Vegas 15 MKV and other containers and codecs unsupported

Chuzz. wrote on 8/28/2018, 11:05 AM

Why does Vegas keep losing features and capabilities?

I used to love this freakn software, but it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Now it's pretty much unusable.

Can't import MKV?

My screen recorder made a bunch of MKV recording but Vegas in it's newfound ' wisdom' is unable to open them.

I'm also disappointed with Vegas 15 ability to output common render settings.

It's actually pathetic.

Vegas has gone from a go-to workhorse which handles almost anything you throw at it , to a picky finicky, faulty piece of garbage.

My disappointment and anger over the last two releases can only increase as I see there a V16 out ALREADY!

But 15 didn't even function!

Magix is running a con and a very poor one.

Why are they making Vegas worse instead of better?

Does anybody know if there is a solution for opening MKV in Vegas?

I shouldn't need to convert files.

Is it finally time to kiss Vegas goodbye? After all those years of greatness, this is how Vegas goes?

A bottom of the barrel scam.

Sad and disappointing.

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Former user wrote on 8/30/2018, 2:18 AM

Premiere Pro has been able to load mkv files since april, so I'm not believing it's illegal for commercial software to open mkv files now.

AVsupport wrote on 8/30/2018, 3:18 AM

decoding might not, encoding might be, if you were to do this commercially (and VP is a commercial editor). Personally, I haven't seen this request come up often in the forums, hence it's perhaps not on the top of the ***quite long*** todo list, especially since there's other workable options

dream wrote on 8/30/2018, 7:47 AM

Premiere Pro has been able to load mkv files since april, so I'm not believing it's illegal for commercial software to open mkv files now.

wow, i don't know that, so vegas what are you waiting for.

decoding might not, encoding might be, if you were to do this commercially (and VP is a commercial editor). Personally, I haven't seen this request come up often in the forums, hence it's perhaps not on the top of the ***quite long*** todo list, especially since there's other workable options

i just want to import the mkv files not render it in mkv, so can it possible?

Sylk wrote on 8/29/2019, 6:20 PM

Hi, Vegas 17. What is the MAGIX MKV format? Can't recognize Matroska MKV and can't import it. So tell me more about its utility.

Musicvid wrote on 8/29/2019, 7:00 PM

MKV is a container that can have any of Video codecs.

Magix MKV is the first MKV format to be supported in VP17, to my understanding.

Matroska is the name of the inventor of MKV, has nothing to do with you.

To find out which codecs are in your MKV wrapper, do this.

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-how-to-post-mediainfo-and-vegas-pro-file-properties--104561/

The vocabulary is explained here:

https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/speaking-good-video-a-beginner-s-guide--104463/

Sylk wrote on 8/29/2019, 7:13 PM

Yeah, thanks for answer Musicvid. I know all of this. My real sub-question is "Why the Magix MKV does not open or recognize a Matroska MKV file which contains h264 codec or any other?" and so "What's utility of the 'Magix MKV'?"

Former user wrote on 8/29/2019, 7:26 PM

Magix call it Experimental MKV support, so it sounds like it's in very early development with this first release. 'experimental' is another way of saying expect there to be problems

Musicvid wrote on 8/29/2019, 7:39 PM

@Sylk

Because it doesn't yet?

Sylk wrote on 8/29/2019, 8:14 PM

Because it doesn't yet?

nope :/

Magix call it Experimental MKV support, so it sounds like it's in very early development with this first release. 'experimental' is another way of saying expect there to be problems

I see. Need waiting for next updates, i assume (and hope).

Thanks

Musicvid wrote on 8/29/2019, 8:36 PM

Yep.

Happy Otter scripts have better MKV decoding.

Marco. wrote on 8/30/2019, 2:18 AM

Did you enable MKV support via Options/Preferences/Deprecated Features? It's disabled by default.

MKV with H.264 encoded video works fine for me in VP17.

Sylk wrote on 8/30/2019, 3:46 AM

Did you enable MKV support via Options/Preferences/Deprecated Features? It's disabled by default.

MKV with H.264 encoded video works fine for me in VP17.

Oh man, you save me! Thanks a lot. Found this option in the 'File I/O' tab.

MKV HEVC also works, so I can import converted MP4 HEVC NVENC (My dream import this format without conversion, but can't for now).

Marco. wrote on 8/30/2019, 4:20 AM

Sorry, of course the I/O one, not Deprecated Features.

Sylk wrote on 8/30/2019, 4:26 AM

I totally forgive you! 😁