ARRI RAW support

[Jamie Allan]

As far as I’m aware .ari and .cine RAW file support was added in 7.1

Find the entire supported list here: https://www.blackmagic-design.com/downloads/davinci/pdf/DaVinciResolveSupportedCodecList.pdf

Jamie Allan
Post Production Consultant
DaVinci Specialist (Linux/Mac)
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[Jens Herold]

On Feb. 14th ARRI released the ALEXA Software Update Packet 3.0.
Before this there was no RAW Support on the camera.
As Jamie already wrote it should work in the actual Version of Resolve.

Jens
creative tools
Hamburg, Germany
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[Dan Moran]

You can use Arri raw right now in Resolve!

At the moment you can adjust the color temperature and ISO of the shots by right clicking and then grade as normal.

Hope this helps!

Dan Moran
Application Specialist
Blackmagic Design EMEA

[Bastiaan Houtkooper nsc]

Thanks Dan, that is information that helped.
Still I get a serious green image and very low saturation, something I don’t see corrected with the controls or a simple LUT.
Is the latest color V3 setting/processing in?
(It does grab the metadata correctly.)

Besides my questions I would like to congratulate BM for this incredible quick support for new technologies.
Hat off!

Bastiaan

Resolve system:
MacPro 8 core 2010 – 16B memory
9TB harddisk (1 system disk, 8TB in software raid 0 for data)
Nvidea GTX285
Nvidea GT120
Blackmagic SDI Decklink
RedRocketcard.
Tangent Wave panel
Transvideo 15″ Cinemontor Evolution

Also running it on a MacBook Pro 17″ (5.2)

[Robbie Carman]

have you checked out the Arri LUT Builder? Sounds like your issue is a LOG issue i.e. flat footage that I’m guessing your monitoring 709

Awesome tool, simply select the options you want and choose resolve as your system and then you have a display LUT for Log C footage coming off the camera/your recorder

here is the link (note you have to be registered. Just click the learn more button on the left hand side of the page

https://arridigital.com/technical/luts

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[Bastiaan Houtkooper nsc]

Thanks Robbie, but I was involved in the process of testing the LUTs before it went online. I know a bit about it 🙂

Apparently you haven’t seen an .ARI file in Resolve. It is seriously of the scale.. (Talking Alexa RAW, not D21)

Resolve system:
MacPro 8 core 2010 – 16B memory
9TB harddisk (1 system disk, 8TB in software raid 0 for data)
Nvidea GTX285
Nvidea GT120
Blackmagic SDI Decklink
RedRocketcard.
Tangent Wave panel
Transvideo 15″ Cinemontor Evolution

Also running it on a MacBook Pro 17″ (5.2)

[Robbie Carman]

[Bastiaan Houtkooper NSC] “I was involved in the process of testing the LUTs before it went online. I know a bit about it :-)”

Cool! Great work then its a fantastic tool

[Bastiaan Houtkooper NSC] “Apparently you haven’t seen an .ARI file in Resolve. It is seriously of the scale.. (Talking Alexa RAW, not D21)”

Yes I have. We’re doing a project shot all the Alexa next month and an Arri Rep I know gave me a ton of footage to test both ProRes and Raw, 709 and Log. But to be honest I haven’t spent a ton of time testing the RAW files as it looks like the project is going to go the ProRes route.

I’ll pull some of the RAW footage I have this afternoon and see if I’m getting the same results

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[Robbie Carman]

Bastiaan – after a closer look I had similar results with the .ARI files. Not sure what the issue is, you mentioned firmware on the camera, I’m not sure what the version the shots I have to test came from. But I can say I’m seeing similar results. The ProRes Log stuff though looks fantastic!

Robbie Carman
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[Bastiaan Houtkooper nsc]

Just had confirmation that the ARRI RAW SDK V3 has been released and shipped to partners, including Blackmagic. I hope we can see the results here soon.
For now we have to bring a bit of nuance to the statement:
Resolve supports ARRI RAW…….

Yes it supports ARRI RAW from the D21 but not yet from V3 Alexa material.
(and that’s unofficial)

🙂

Resolve system:
MacPro 8 core 2010 – 16B memory
9TB harddisk (1 system disk, 8TB in software raid 0 for data)
Nvidea GTX285
Nvidea GT120
Blackmagic SDI Decklink
RedRocketcard.
Tangent Wave panel
Transvideo 15″ Cinemontor Evolution

Also running it on a MacBook Pro 17″ (5.2)

[Clark Bierbaum]

Have an ARRI RAW job coming in soon – what’s the real ETA BM? Have a ProRes LOG job Friday – have done some testing and can’t wait to get to it! H264 tomorrow 🙁

Clark Bierbaum
Colorist, Contractor, Realtor
Charlotte, NC