Workflow for ProRes RAW

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Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 8:15 am

Does anyone know how to import ProResRAW footage into DVR? Just got some 2 Hours of clips to edit and I'm scratching my head on this. :(

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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 8:42 am

You can’t, it is not a supported format.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 12:16 pm

Find someone with a Mac and convert it to ProRes 4444 with Compressor.
Or work with FCP-X.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 1:05 pm

If I must provide Prores, here's my process:
1-export from Davinci to uncompressed 4444 or DNxHR 444
2-import to Adobe Media Encoder
3-export from AME to prores
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 2:57 pm

Charles, he can't read ProRes RAW.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 4:18 pm

Uli Plank wrote:Find someone with a Mac and convert it to ProRes 4444 with Compressor.
Or work with FCP-X.


Premiere on the Windows side will support ProRes Raw, too.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Sep 22, 2020 4:33 pm

True. But Compressor costs you only once.
Of course. if you need to convert one project only, you can rent Premiere for a month.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostMon Oct 12, 2020 1:42 pm

paulgolden wrote:
Uli Plank wrote:Find someone with a Mac and convert it to ProRes 4444 with Compressor.
Or work with FCP-X.


Premiere on the Windows side will support ProRes Raw, too.


Why is this the case? If apple wont open it up to developers, how did Adobe get ahold of it for Premiere?
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostMon Oct 12, 2020 9:07 pm

Anyone can implement support for ProRes RAW but there's an approval process you have to go through to get a license from Apple.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostMon Oct 12, 2020 10:18 pm

Lets hope KYNO will support it in the future. This would be a cheap solution if DR does not plan to support it. Given that they haven't implemented ProRES renders for windows users even if asked for a thousand times this petition could go the same direction.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostMon Oct 12, 2020 10:31 pm

mastix wrote:Lets hope KYNO will support it in the future. This would be a cheap solution if DR does not plan to support it. Given that they haven't implemented ProRES renders for windows users even if asked for a thousand times this petition could go the same direction.

Apple controls who gets the licensing to export ProRes, and nobody else. The entire population of Earth could petition BMD to add it, and if Apple didn't want to give them a license, it wouldn't happen.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Oct 13, 2020 12:02 am

Jack Fairley wrote:
mastix wrote:Lets hope KYNO will support it in the future. This would be a cheap solution if DR does not plan to support it. Given that they haven't implemented ProRES renders for windows users even if asked for a thousand times this petition could go the same direction.

Apple controls who gets the licensing to export ProRes, and nobody else. The entire population of Earth could petition BMD to add it, and if Apple didn't want to give them a license, it wouldn't happen.


The NSO people should be able to hack it, they made a legal living out of hacking Apple equipment and selling it to everyone with enough money.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostTue Oct 13, 2020 2:47 am

Well, ProRes encoding has been reverse-engineered and is available in ffMPEG.
So, just sit and wait. Or do something else in the meantime.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostSun Mar 06, 2022 8:56 pm

I know this is an old thread but I like to share a 'solution' that I found after facing the same problems as the original poster. Most of you know that there is now the option to export ProRes RAW using Adobe Media Encoder (on Mac AND Windows). So we are no longer dependant on Compressor to export a batch of ProRes RAW files.

But using Media Encoder raises the next problem: your footage looks like utter garbage if you export directly to any other format. But, and this is my discovery, if you right click the clips before exporting in the Queue panel you can change the 'source settings'. Here you can select the original LOG setting of your camera and export the files in the correct color space as if the camera had shot in a compressed format to begin with. It's no RAW functionality, but it is a big step closer than adjusting every clip in Final Cut Pro and exporting them that way (and losing most of your metadata as a result).
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostMon Mar 07, 2022 9:15 pm

Nowadays there's the "Raw convertor" app that can convert ProRes RAW to cDNG which you can use in Resolve.
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Re: Workflow for ProRes RAW

PostWed Mar 09, 2022 1:45 pm

Great news that we have so many options to convert ProRes RAW. If you're converting please be sure you're at least using a 12 bpc codec, such as ProRes 4444
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