MKVs into CS5.5

[mavermc]

I've got a movie that I'm trying to get into after effects.

MKV
Audio: A52 Audio (aka AC3)
Video: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (avc1)
1280x536
23.976215

So of course I try putting this into Media Encoder (to break it down so i don't have a 2 hour file in AE) and Encoder 5.5 gives me a File Import Error saying the file format is not supported.

So I tried Avidemux making clips in there. trying to make them mjpeg or a h264 avc in a AVI container instead and while the AVIs will get imported, encoder won't be able to find any frames, just black video.

Any idea what i'm doing wrong here? I thought 5.5 had support for MKVs

Thanks

[aedipuss]

mediainfo might give some more useful info on the video.

mkv is a container that can hold lots of different types of video, not all are supported by anything.

[poisondeathray]

you can try re-wrapping with tsmuxer into .m2ts transport stream, then import into pp

[mavermc]

mediainfo might give some more useful info on the video.

mkv is a container that can hold lots of different types of video, not all are supported by anything.

Yes I know, I was saying I thought CS5.5 had support for the MKV container, because i know it has support for AVC h.264 which is inside the MKV but as long as it's an MKV adobe won't let you import it.

I did the tsMuxer and that seemed to work, but i need to reinstall adobe because i just formated my system, so I'll post back with results, Heres to hoping this finally works

[mavermc]

ok so MediaInfo says

BDAV: 4.64GB
Video stream: AVC
audio stream: AC-3

when I go to import it adobe says source compression not supported this time. So at least i got a container that plays nice with adobe but I guess there is something weird about that H.264 AVC that adobe doesn't like, Because I can't use media encoder what should I use for conversion? lots of recommend Super, but that's always just crashed and worked aweful for me.