Converting MKV for use with Adobe Premiere Pro without re-encoding help

Gents, I normally receive my stuff in a format I can stick on Adobe Premiere Pro. MKV's are not compatible. 

What I want to do with the current project is take the MKV I have and convert it for use with Adobe Premiere Pro (on a PC and not on a MAC) but without re-encoding the video. MKV is just a wrapper and I should be able to get the file inside for use.

On a MAC you would take a BD, extract the video & audio file with MakeMKV and then use MP4tools to do a transcode or passthrough (I do not know the correct terminology) to a file compatible with Premiere Pro. This allows you to sync up a new soundtrack and you have not tampered with the video and can then export to Encore. I am looking for an MKVtools alternative with a PC.

I hope I am making sense here. My current project is the HARD BOILED Blu-Ray and I am having some trouble. Thanks

OK, I have MKVtoolnix (the program itself is listed as mkvmerge GUI v6.1.0) but all it does it make yet another mkv file. ??????

For VLC I see using STREAM I might be able to do this, but the choices on the menus are confusing. 

I wouldn't know what choice to make...

Moth3r said:

You could remux the video & audio streams into a different container (M2TS) using tsMuxeR.

I can say from experience (albeit quite a long time ago) that this works. Premiere Pro is, however, quite slow when working with AVC compressed video files (due to the compression, I think).

You may also find problems (or not) when exporting due to caching, insomuch as that it will render certain cached frames over and over for the duration of the clip. The best bet is to export directly to a lossless format such as Lagarith or HuffYUV if you have the disk space as soon as its imported into Premiere, which makes it faster to edit and generally easier to work with.

What I'm doing now is this...

DVDfab to rip the BD onto my hard drive in a folder structure. i took the main movie's .m2ts file and stuck it onto my other drive and have put it into a Premiere pro timeline. 

I rendered it, which has solved the playback issues. 

I am now syncing the PCM audio from the laserdisc. The 5.1 remix is a mess and laughably out o sync at tims. Amateur hour. Thankfully the lasersisc audio lines up nicely after a while and then neds few adjustments. 

I'm 90 minutes in. 

What to do when I am finished? No idea! I'll cross that bridge when I come to it this weekend.

Greetings

  My first post here!

I'm looking into Vegas and trying to find out an easy way to get avs scripts into Vegas. Just found this thread today on doom9 -

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=133313

Load the mkv in an avisynth script then do the magic with "Avisynth virtual file system" and "Pismo File Mount system" and everything should work. I'll be trying it very soon.

Assuming that your vidya track in the MKV is compatible with PPRO, use MKVExtractGUI2 to extract the vidya track, and the mux into MP4 with mp4box/YAMB/etc keeping in mind the original FPS, and import that into PPRO.

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