videoMatik v0.1.2 (Windows)

videoMatik — download videos from any link straight onto your Premiere Pro timeline (Premiere Pro 2026+) · Windows version

Paste a video link into the panel and it downloads and drops the clip onto your active sequence at the playhead.

What's new in 0.1.2

• H.264 downloads for editor compatibility. YouTube's true "best" video is usually AV1/VP9, which many Premiere builds reject with "unsupported format." videoMatik now downloads the best H.264 (avc1) + AAC and remuxes to MP4 (still no re-encode) — Premiere always decodes it. Trade-off: YouTube H.264 tops out at 1080p, so 1440p/4K sources come down at 1080p.
• New download-glyph icon (from 0.1.1).

Install

1. Download and unzip videoMatik-windows.zip.
2. Double-click INSTALL.bat (if SmartScreen warns: More info → Run anyway).
3. Restart Premiere Pro completely.
4. Window ▸ Extensions (UXP) ▸ videoMatik.

⚠️ Cross-compiled, not yet runtime-tested on Windows. The bundled videomatik-sidecar.exe was cross-compiled from macOS (Rust x86_64-pc-windows-gnu via cargo-zigbuild) and is a valid PE32+ binary, but I have no Windows machine to run it on. The Rust source is identical to the fully-tested macOS build; only #[cfg]-gated paths differ. If the helper misbehaves, rebuild it natively on Windows with cargo build --release in videomatik-sidecar/ and re-run scripts/make-share-package.ps1. The bundled yt-dlp.exe, ffmpeg.exe, ffprobe.exe, and deno.exe are official upstream Windows builds.

The Windows release bundles a GPL ffmpeg build (yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds). Unsigned — click through SmartScreen once.

macOS version: see the v0.1.2-macos release.