Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:28 pm
Hi @calemanning, I was investigating the same issue today.
I wanted to report a workaround I found today to customize BRAW settings in After Effects by overriding the 'as shot' metadata that AE obeys. Being that the full RAW control with Blackmagic RAW does exist in Premiere, in Premiere clip Fx you can override from "Camera Metadata" to "Clip" and have the full menu of RAW controls. Once set, you can just hit "Update Sidecar" at the bottom. This should drop a ".sidecar" file next to the ".braw" with a matching file name. At this point, when you import that same .braw into After Effects it will read the metadata from the ".sidecar" file. I wasn't testing against white balance, just gamma settings. Perhaps give this a try? I think either Blackmagic or Adobe should expose the BRAW settings in "Interpret Footage">"More Options" as they do with RED. But for now, in a pinch, this is an alternative that worked for me.
Or consider the Autokroma 3rd party option, which of course addresses the same issue.
This test is based on Windows 10, After Effects and Premiere CC 2020, with Blackmagic RAW 2.0-b2 installed, using 12k .braw from URSA Mini Pro 12k. I was trying to Dynamic Link Premiere to AE thinking that'd pass through the RAW overrides, but it choked, but I think this relates to the 12k .braw which routinely caps out GPU RAM in AE, Premiere and Resolve.
And of course, @carlomacchiavello is correct, this is one of the gaps that Autokroma fills. However, for our environment, this is not a single user situation and we need to be able to read .braw on all workstations and render farm which would be expensive and hard to track single user licenses. If you're one a single machine, Autokroma seems like a great option.
