Still Photos Workflow

Hi --

For the first time I used my BMPC4K to take a bunch of still photos. I was quite surprised and disappointed to find that the files in the STILLS directory are all BRAW files that I can not open directly in Photoshop.

Is there some setting on my camera I need to change to get the still images into a format that Photoshop can open?

If not, how do you all go about converting still images to a format Photoshop supports?

The idea of importing stills into Davinci and color correct them and then (presumably) exporting them as still seems like a lot of extra (frustrating) steps.

Any feedback / ideas would be appreciated!

Rich

If you record video in braw you shoot still in braw, if you switch to ProRes you shoot still in Dng uncompressed that you can load easely in Photoshop or other photo software

From many years shoot photos like short videos in q0 to have the best quality and fast response that photo button not give me. Later I choose right frame from resolve, export like braw, I develop these selected braw frames with resolve and export like dng for eventual other work.

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Thanks so much for this info, I will experiment with the settings to get DNG files.

Additionally, I did discover the Blackmagic BRAW SDK comes with source code for a simple app to extract an image from a BRAW file so I was able to compile that and use a batch file to process the still images I had.

Rich

Thanks again for this tip. I changed my record mode and got the DNGs!

Hey guys, I shot a series of photos today and stupidly had BRAW selected as the codec. So now all the stills are in BRAW format. In the past they were always DNGs. I have since found out that this has changed with one of the latest Camera updates and only with ProRes the stills are saved in DNG format.

Now I have over 500 stills in BRAW format and am kind of hopeless. I have no experience with Davinci Resolve so I'm just feeling overwhelmed with the tips I'm finding here on the forum. Therefore I am looking for help. What do I need to do to get the 500 BRAWs into a format that I can edit further in Lightroom.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP!

Wouldn't you just be able to download the BRAW sdk and batch convert them in Bridge or import them directly into Lightroom?

Hey guys, I shot a series of photos today and stupidly had BRAW selected as the codec. So now all the stills are in BRAW format. In the past they were always DNGs. I have since found out that this has changed with one of the latest Camera updates and only with ProRes the stills are saved in DNG format.

Now I have over 500 stills in BRAW format and am kind of hopeless. I have no experience with Davinci Resolve so I'm just feeling overwhelmed with the tips I'm finding here on the forum. Therefore I am looking for help. What do I need to do to get the 500 BRAWs into a format that I can edit further in Lightroom.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP!

Wouldn't you just be able to download the BRAW sdk and batch convert them in Bridge or import them directly into Lightroom?

Hey guys, I shot a series of photos today and stupidly had BRAW selected as the codec. So now all the stills are in BRAW format. In the past they were always DNGs. I have since found out that this has changed with one of the latest Camera updates and only with ProRes the stills are saved in DNG format.

Now I have over 500 stills in BRAW format and am kind of hopeless. I have no experience with Davinci Resolve so I'm just feeling overwhelmed with the tips I'm finding here on the forum. Therefore I am looking for help. What do I need to do to get the 500 BRAWs into a format that I can edit further in Lightroom.

THANKS FOR ANY HELP!

i never worked with the braw sdk... i dont get it to open braw in adobe tools even if i install the blackmagic raw package...

Switch this in the User Preferences to one single frame:

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Switch your project to DaVinci YRGB Color Managed.
Drop those 500 frames into the timeline, but before importing them switch this in case some of them are numbered sequentially:

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You can do some color grading at this point, but you don't need to.
Go to Deliver and choose a stills format to your liking. Unfortunately no DNG, I'd suggest this:

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If all of your stills are numbered sequentially, you can forget step one and just drop them onto the timeline like a video.

Wow thank you so much for your help! Will tiff keep the capabilities of braw or do i loose dynamic range for editing in post? I am wondering that a braw still is about 5mb while a exported tif still is about hundreds of mb...

BRAW is very efficient, TIFF is not. But 16 bit should keep enough leeway for grading.
The only other way is learning to grade your stills in DR and export into your final format.