CinemaDNG Playback in Premiere CC

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Thanks Eric. No doubt this is useful to recent converts to CinemaDNG and BMD cameras that shoot raw. For the sake of fairness, it’s been discussed on Cow and Todd Kopriva wrote about it on Adobe blogs over a year ago:

“In the meantime, of course, you can use After Effects to transcode your CinemaDNG footage to something that you can edit with in Premiere Pro.”

[Ericbowen]

I wanted to bring a fresh thread about it with the new cameras releasing since it seems many are still not aware of this.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com

[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

Thanks for the info Eric. Definitely a good idea to keep the knowledge base flowing to new users.

I still contend though that for the average+ user, a full raw workflow is too cumbersome to handle and I highly encourage the use of an offline/online workflow using software such as DaVinci Resolve to convert to an intermediate codec such as ProRes for edit or even using some of the excellent offerings from Cineform if you insist on keeping the raw workflow.

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[Ericbowen]

In the testing I have done, Cineform converts and compares to CinemaDNG with negligible differential when tested in AE. That by far has been the best intermediate so far based on the original data.

Eric-ADK
Tech Manager
support@adkvideoediting.com