Adobe dropping Raw DNG support?

[Walter Soyka]

There was a bit misinformation around Adobe and CinemaDNG over the last few days, caused by a poorly worded post on the Adobe Labs blog. See Todd Kopriva’s blog post CinemaDNG in After Effects CS6 (and elsewhere) [link] for more details.

The short version is that Adobe never integrated CinemaDNG support into Premiere to begin with. Adobe offered an experimental import plugin on Adobe Labs, but performance wasn’t really good enough for real-world use and it was never part of the official release.

Even without this plugin, you can still import CinemaDNG into Ae and Ps and transcode to movies or supported image sequences for use with Premiere.

I absolutely agree that anyone who wants native CinemaDNG import in Premiere should file a feature request — and I imagine the BMCC and others have this on everyone’s radar.

Walter Soyka
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[Michael Locke]

Thank you sir,

Always enlightened by your posts. It seemed too illogical for Adobe, they’ve worked so hard the past years on platform compatibility. Hopefully they’ll get this realtime issue solved, I’m sure they’re aware of the impending need by now…