No support for Cinema DNG in CS6?

[Dustin Parsons]

Maybe this is what you need? https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/cinemadng.html

[Shawn Miller]

[Dustin Parsons] “Maybe this is what you need? https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/cinemadng.html“

Thanks Dustin, this seems to be for CS 5.5. I’ll see if it also works for CS6.

“Adobe CinemaDNG Importer preview 4 (version 5.5) adds support to Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS5.5 for reading CinemaDNG video streams in the form of MXF files and DNG file sequences. Version 5.5 of the CinemaDNG Importer has shipped in Adobe After Effects® CS 5.5.”

Shawn

[Ernest Ratliff]

The Adobe plug in only works with 8 bit DNG files, the 12 bit files from the Blackmagic Cinema Camera are a no go, at least in my testing on CS5.5

[Angelo Lorenzo]

You may have to use Resolve to create proxies (prores or dnxhd) and then reconform after you have your edit locked.

Even though Adobe created CinemaDNG, it’s an open standard they aren’t really gung-ho about developing so I can only bet it’ll take a bit for them to catch up.

Angelo Lorenzo
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[Shawn Miller]

Thanks Ernest and Angelo,

I just assumed (I know) Adobe’s support for Cinema DNG would be the same in PPro as it is in AE, Photoshop and Lightroom. Oh well, hopefully enough people will request this feature to make it a priority for Adobe.

Shawn

[Michael Murphy]

Andrew has detailed an After Effects workflow for the BMC files at his site, EOSHD, that doesn’t require conversion wit the tool.

I’m not sure if it is allowed to link?

https://www.eoshd.com/content/8822/lossless-blackmagic-cinema-dng-2-5k-workflow-for-adobe-premiere-cs5-5-with-smooth-playback-and-editing

Best,
Michael

[C-deeq Rapheal]

nobody wants use after effects every time for major projects…..ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS6 NEEDS TO SUPPORT CINEMA DNG !!!!
EVERYBODY MUST MAKE A REQUEST
USE THE LINK BELOW
https://www.adobe.com/go/wish

[Ernest Ratliff]

It really is something they need to address, since one of the big selling points of Premiere is it’s ability to ingest any format natively.

[Justin Katz]

Apparently, Adobe has discontinued support for CinemaDNG on Premiere Pro. Very disappointing news for me, as I was considering getting a BMC soon. Cin­e­maDNG is an amazing fea­ture from the Black­magic Cin­ema Cam­era. This is Adobe’s statement:

“The Cin­ema DNG Ini­tia­tive has been dis­con­tin­ued and is no longer hosted on Adobe Labs.”

More from Adobe and CinemaDNG Support here: https://bit.ly/PBBuxo

What the $#@*!?

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Justin:

There is more to that (from Adobe):

“What this is intending to communicate is simply that the experimental plug-in for CinemaDNG for Premiere Pro CS5.5 was removed from the Adobe Labs website. The CinemaDNG format continues to be an open format, and its development is not limited to Adobe.”

“One question that we’ve been seeing a lot–especially since the recent announcements of a couple of cameras–is why Premiere Pro doesn’t import CinemaDNG files. The answer is simply that we have not been satisfied with the performance that we have been able to achieve with CinemaDNG files in Premiere Pro, in which real-time playback is crucial. If it’s important to you that we add native import of CinemaDNG footage into Premiere Pro, please let us know with a feature request so that we can get a sense of whether this is an area where we need to put more effort. We really do value those feature requests.

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.”

This was from a blog post by Todd Kopriva of Adobe.

To me, this sounds rather legit.

Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
DV411 – Los Angeles, CA