Open and Play MKV files in Sony Vegas Pro

This guide allows you to turn MKV into a Vegas Pro more usable format almost instantly, so that you can open and use MKV files in Sony Vegas Pro smoothly.

How to Make Sony Vegas Pro Read MKV files

Although Sony Vegas Pro adds tons of feature enhancements and performance improvements to its new version (V12), there're issues still when importing some raw video files to Vegas Pro. In this article, we focus on how to make Sony Vegas Pro read MKV files beautifully.

You can of course play MKV videos using classic player with Community Codec Pack, but you can't make it readable with Sony Vegas. That's because MKV is a container file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file and Sony Vegas doesn't accept it natively. If you want to directly open MKV in Sony Vegas Pro, you will be frustrated for Vegas not supporting MKV format. In order to import MKV Sony Vegas Pro smoothly, you'd need to convert MKV to Sony Vegas Pro supported formats first.

Acrok HD Video Converter will be the best solution here. With this ideal MKV to Sony Vegas Pro Converter, you can convert MKV to Vegas Pro most compatible format like MPEG-2 easily and fast. The video quality won't be reduced through conversion. This powerful video converter also can convert other videos including MP4, MKV, MOV, MXF, MTS, etc to Vegas Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and more NLE supported format on Windows. Besides, with its built-in Editor, you can crop, trim, add effects, subtitles to your MKV files as you need. Download the tool and follow the guide below, you will be able to convert MKV to Sony Vegas Pro in few minutes.

Download the MKV to Vegas Pro Converter:

How to Convert MKV files for Editing in Sony Vegas Pro

Step 1. Add video files

Run the best MKV to Sony Vegas Converter, and click the "Add" button to load .mkv videos. If you want to merge multiple clips just need to check the "Merge into one" box.

Step 2. Choose output format

Click "Format" bar to determine output format. Follow "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas" and select "MPEG-2(*.mpg)" as the output format. Besides, you can also choose WMV (VC-1) (*.wmv) if you want to get a relatively smaller output file.

Tip -Profile Settings: In case the default settings do not fit your requirement, you can click "Settings" button and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels. If you want to keep you 5.1 Audio Channels, please set ac3 as audio codec.

Step 3. Start conversion

Click "Convert" button to start convert MKV to MPG for importing to Sony Vegas Pro. When the conversion task is finished, click "Open" button to get the exported files. Now you have got it right, just to import and edit MKV files within Sony Vegas Pro 8/9/10/11/12 at ease.