Canon CR2 RAW Issues

A client has shot some timelapse on his Canon camera and provided image sequences in CR2 format.

I can read these image sequences fine in both Resolve 16 & 17. But they look terrible, getting pink & magenta banding around highlights and the colour and exposure seems completely off.

I can expose the RAW controls to adjust as you would a r3d or X-OCN file but the Temp/Tint/Exposure/etc; controls don't do anything. The values are changing but the picture isn't, they are doing nothing. If I modify the project exposure controls for Canon RAW it is doing absolutely nothing either.

If I open the same file in Photoshop it is looking very close to how it should, and all the RAW controls work as expected to get the image to a good base that you could grade off.

Yes, I'm sure someone will suggest that if it looks good in photoshop that I could get a base grade and export those as uncompressed media to grade from, but that would become cumbersome & time consuming very quickly and defeats the purpose of being able to debayer CR2 in Resolve.

If anyone knows how to get the CR2 working properly in Resolve or of any CR2 to DNG conversion where Resolve can read the DNG (The Adobe one doesn't work) then I would appreciate it being shared.

Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

I had a similar issue last year. I reported to the forum in May last year. BM showed some interest in the problem but in the end I put it through After Effects which gives a pop-up raw menu when you import the raw file.

Edit: I have not tried this in V17.

I’ve tried it in 17. Same result as 16 which is pretty much unusable. I may need to convert it to something else before importing into Resolve. Shame the Adobe CR2 to DNG doesn’t work in Resolve either.


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After Effects to prores 444…doesn’t work?

To get some insight into the IDT science for cr2, you can read the pdf from doi (use the download button on the page): https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173. ... .MOBMU-138

They are comparing several non-propriotary RAW converters. It's for the EOS 5D mkIII. From my experience, the results are similar with the 7D and the 5DmkII. Resolve is actually a little closer to the correct values than Photoshop. Affinity gets the closest. But the Resolve IDT is acceptable. Things might be different for other cameras.

If you have shot a color chart and use it to balance out the offsets from the IDTs the result should be very close to the actual image. This is at least the case for me with the cameras mentioned above.
If your images look extremely wonky as you describe it, something is set wrong. But unless you use Canon's DPP for conversion, the image will never be perfect. DPP unfortunately limits you to photographic color spaces.

Most of photo raw had heavy post process to reduce lens and sensor defects, cameras wrote in metadata this post process and automatically camera raw Adobe and not only process it. Panasonic lenses had also geometric correction in post, this is the reasons behind different result for example from Lumix Gh5 to pocket4k result of same lenses.
My best suggest is put in after, where camera raw manage it and export like tiff sequence and go.


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Just tried .CR2 files in 17.4.2. I have the same problems as posted by Adam Archer.

• Images look terrible and dark.
• RAW settings have no effect.

My workaround is to convert them to dng files. You can do this in Lightroom or Adobe makes a separate tool for doing so.