BRAW Studio

"The importer reported a generic error" in Adobe Premiere Pro, with an error in the Events window "BRAW Studio could not properly open the following file, which might indicate a potential corruption of its content"

"The file X .braw could not be imported. Could not read from source. Please check the settings and try again" in Adobe Media Encoder

"Could not read from source. Please check the settings and try again" then "file X.braw cannot be imported - this .braw file is damaged or unsupported" in Adobe After Effects

Adds support for Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6K

Adds support for Fujifilm GFX100 II Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

Adds support for automatically rotating vertical video clips

Adds support for new Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K OLPF Camera as well as Panasonic LUMIX S5II / S5IIX and Fujifilm X-S20 Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

After Effects Layer Settings was producing an error message and was unusable in latest After Effects 23.4 version

Premiere Pro Panel : red Error while selecting items in timeline

White Balance Color Picker : when image was zoomed and rescaled, picked pixel could be wrong (slightly shifted)

Adobe Importer : Fixed frame never displayed with red error in Premiere Pro or Rendering issues when some special effects were applied on a BRAW clip, like Stabilizer effect

Premiere Pro Panel : when using the "Select All in Project" or "Select All in Sequence" button, it was sometimes impossible to change params because of selection limit. Note: the limit set to 100 clips is still used for manual selection only.

Importer : Black Frames and Cache issues

Source Settings : BRAW Settings could be reset to old values in particular circumstances when using the "Switch A/B" button

Black Frames on .braw recorded through Video Assist on some Cameras like Panasonic ones, Highlight Recovery cannot be modified (Read Only) and it was involving some errors

White Balance Picker Tool (from plugins and PrPro Panel) : computed WB was wrong due to the picked pixel location being wrongly interpreted

Text numbers on the right of sliders impossible to modify in Desktop

Crash issue when launching Desktop Application in some particular circumstances

Player : BRAW Studio now includes a Windows / macOS native desktop application which can play your .BRAW Files but also modify the BRAW Settings just like with the Source Settings and Layer Settings !

Update Sidecar : after changing BRAW Settings in the BRAW Studio App, export them to the sidecar : so this new color grade should automatically be loaded whatever the app you choose to import your BRAW file then (Camera Metadata workflow)

Lossless Trimming tool : import your BRAW file, set In / Out time points and export a new smaller BRAW file with the exact same quality and metadata than the original ! Only unused video frames and unused audio samples are properly removed

Include Custom LUT in .Sidecar : you can choose to use a custom .cube LUT and attach it to your BRAW file through the .sidecar file. The LUT will be processed with the BRAW SDK and gives you the best quality !

Metadata Viewer : a special Metadata Tab with all your BRAW Metadata !

Windows : it replaces the Blackmagic RAW Player from BMD as default BRAW App Opener and also generates itself the BRAW Thumbnails in Explorer, so the Blackmagic RAW Player is not needed anymore

macOS : it replaces the Blackmagic RAW Player from BMD as default BRAW App Opener but does not generate QuickLook .BRAW Thumbnails (you will still need to install the Blackmagic RAW Player for this)

Article with more info : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-Desktop-Application

You can now automatically click inside your .BRAW File at a given frame to select what "White" (also works with Grey) should be, like Eyedroppers in others apps. The White Balance Tool will set Color Temperature and Tint so that the selected pixel is the closest possible to White / Grey

Available from the BRAW Studio Panel and the Source Settings in Premiere Pro , the Layer Settings in After Effects and the new Desktop App

By default, it gives a white / grey pixel before Gamut / Gamma / LUT changes. You can change this with an option inside the White Balance Picker tool so it makes this computation after all changes

Article with more info : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-White-Balance-Picker

When selecting a MultiCam Sequence Clip in Timeline which contains only one BRAW file (for Audio Sync), the .BRAW file is directly selected

New "Ctrl+Z" or "Ctrl+Shift+Z" shortcuts when the panel is selected : they will do the same action than clicking on "Undo" or "Redo" buttons

New "Ctrl+C" or "Ctrl+V" shortcuts when the panel is selected : they will do the same action than clicking on "Copy" or "Paste" buttons

Note about the new shortcuts : when the panel is selected they will not affect other Premiere Pro actions

If you maintain the "Shift" key of your keyboard while dragging a slider, it slightly drag the slider so you can set more precise values

Increased a bit sizes of "Thumb" sliders size so they are easier to drag

More info about how to upgrade to V3 https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-V3-Upgrade

Download the BRAW Player and Thumbnails from this page https://www.autokroma.com/blog/How-to-Install-Blackmagic-RAW-Player-Thumbnails

Download old versions of BRAW Studio for legacy support (old macOS and old versions of Adobe) from this page https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-Legacy-Versions-for-Old-Support

You can run our Install and Uninstaller .exe in command line like this : 'start "Autokroma" /wait /b "InstallerOrUninstaller.exe" /S', for our uninstaller you can pass an argument to specify which product to uninstall like this : '-Uninstall_BRAW_Studio' and/or '-Uninstall_BMD'. Do not forget to run your Terminal as Administrator, otherwise you will need user interaction to confirm the Administrator rights prompt. This also works using Microsoft SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) to automate deployment

When launching our Installer in recent versions there was a "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device ?" yellow popup, now correctly replaced with the good Verified publisher blue popup

"Add LUT To Sidecar" feature was not working properly on previous v2.7.9

Convert BMD PrPro Panel : some BRAW Settings were not well converted

Sometimes the BRAW Settings were reset when re-opening the project, it was also affecting the Dynamic Links with Premiere Pro

Crash when adding the effect on a layer that is not from a .BRAW file

When using the "Add LUT To Sidecar" button in the panel with some kind of LUTs, it could involve immediate crash until the sidecar was removed

When a .braw is recorded through Video Assist on some Cameras like Panasonic ones, Highlight Recovery can not be modified (Read Only), and it was involving red errors before

macOS : "BRAW_Studio is damaged and can't be opened" popup when trying to launch Settings and License or inside the PrPro Panel

Adds support for Fujifilm XH2s Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

Adds adjustable white balance and accuracy for Panasonic GH5S, BGH1

Improved white balance accuracy for Panasonic S1H, S1, S5, BS1H

LUT was always disabled on Media Encoder renders from After Effects

When switching the first time to "Decode Using : Custom B" in Source Settings in recent versions of Premiere Pro 2022, some dropdown parameters could appear empty

Instability issues

Premiere Pro and Media Encoder CC 2017 and CC 2018

Merged Clips on Premiere Pro CC 2019

Layer Settings on After Effects and Windows : old graphics cards for CUDA Acceleration (all nVidia GeForce GT / GTX 6XX and 7XX, except GTX 780 and GT 730)

Fixed selection issue with Merged Clips, which were selectable only once per session

Fixed selection issue when .BRAW file extension was not lowercase

Fixed an error which could happen while loading a custom LUT through Sidecar

Fixed a Red Error popup when exiting Premiere Pro

New Buttons "Select All in Project" and "Select All in Sequence" to select all .BRAW Clips respectively in the project or only inside the current sequence. This will help you do numerous batch tasks, such as updating / loading all sidecars files, generating all the Merged Clips info once (saved popup bug) and not later, initializing all the .BRAW clips Source Settings info in case you have lots of .BRAW and you want to avoid BRAW Studio Panel to initialize them later on etc.. Another practical use of this is to batch change Source Settings, for example now you are able to make exports with two different .BRAW color grade with only a few clicks, by storing the first color grade inside Custom A and the second Color Grade inside Custom B

Prev And Next buttons are not disabled anymore when no clip is selected. They now select the first or last clip in the timeline in that case

Fixed : a .BRAW setting changed during the processing of another setting change is now reverted in the UI while the first change is processed (happens especially when a lot of .BRAW files are selected and graded)

Fixed errors with unicode filepaths

Support for Leica SL2-S .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

New Gamma : "L-Log"

Improvement : when a Merged Clip is selected, the project was auto-saved once per Premiere Pro session. Now it has been improved and the auto-saved happens only once per project. So once you got the auto-save popup for a Merged Clip, you will not get it anymore for this .BRAW ProjectItem

Fixed : when saving Sidecar in Multiple Selection mode, there was only one sidecar updated, now all of them are properly updated

Fixed : Project Conversion from BMD plugin to BRAW Studio (in the PrPro Panel Toolbox) could be blocked and was never finishing if the Source Settings effect was absent

New "Add LUT to Sidecar" button to load your custom .Cube LUT file into the .sidecar file for one or even multiple selected .BRAW Files, so that the LUT will be loaded and processed through the official BRAW SDK

New "Export Embedded LUT" button to export the Embedded LUT to a .Cube file, useful to apply in another color grading software

On each line of a BRAW Setting, a new reset icon-button that resets the param to its Camera Metadata value (the value sets when shot or from the .sidecar)

New button in the ToolBox tab to convert a BRAW Studio Project to a Blackmagic Design PrPro Plugin Project in case you rather need to work with the BMD Plugin and switch plugins. Note that the Source Settings params will not be translated, but the project should be stable. Never force convert a project ! Always use our conversion tools to be safe. BRAW Studio already supported converting from a BMD Project, so now it supports both ways

PrPro Panel "Redo" button was not updating the Panel UI in some cases

PrPro Panel "To Src Monitor" button was not working in some cases

CC 2020 - Importer Generic Error

Panel versions before CC 2018.1 when switching to Metadata Tab

After Effects : Layer Settings now uses GPU acceleration (Metal / CUDA / OpenCL) by default when the Project Settings "Video Rendering and Effects" dropdown is set to GPU. Before you needed to enable it manually in the "Settings and License" popup, and now you can disable it from there in case of errors

Using BRAW 2.2.1 version

PrPro 2020 - "JSX SetValue Bad Argument" error when using the Panel

PrPro BRAW Studio Panel - Error when saving sidecar for Multiple .BRAW Clips at once with different Source Settings but from the same .BRAW file

PrPro BRAW Studio Panel - Error when changing Color Science in Multiple .BRAW Clips Selection mode if Gamma different across the selected clips

Logs were not written on macOS

Multiple Selection of BRAW Settings : you can now change all Exposure (for example) of 20 .BRAW Clips in a few clicks !

Autokroma Notifications : get notification about new articles, new available BRAW Studio version or other global Autokroma news directly in the panel !

Warning displayed at the top of the panel when logs are enabled because it decreases the global BRAW Studio performance

Error message displayed at the top if the Blackmagic RAW PrPro Importer plugin is installed, it is not compatible with BRAW Studio and will lead to conflicts : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BlackmagicRaw-Plugin-BRAW-Studio-Difference/

"Settings and License" and "Preset Manager" popups now always stay on top of others windows

Support for Fujifilm GFX100 and GFX100S .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

Support for Panasonic Lumix GH5S, BS1H and BGH1 .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

PrPro Panel : instant crash when using "Set New Source" button or "Set BRAW From a New local Project Item" button (when using Productions) in PrPro 2022 Beta

PrPro Panel : too much sliders actions could be added into the Undo Pool, resulting of Undo actions doing nothing

PrPro Panel : the LUT name was not displayed in Panel if the BRAW clip had a LUT only in sidecar

If the white balance controls were set previously from the panel and Preset was still on "Custom", when opening the Source Effect Tab of a BRAW clip the controls could be reset

Production : fixed error while using the "Set BRAW From a New local Project Item". Check our website for more information about working with Production : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-Working-With-Production

UI now shows you when BRAW Studio is in TRIAL mode

UI now shows you when logging is enabled. You should only enable logging to create bug reports for us and disable it afterwards

The BRAW Studio Panel could be really long to init when logs were enabled in big projects

Avoid wrong error message "registerSelectionFctToRun..." which could happen when loading a project

Support for Nikon Z 6II / Z 7II and Panasonic Lumix S1H / S1 / S5 .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

CPU Decoding for URSA 12K .BRAW files

The "Use Gamut Compression" checkbox is not in BETA anymore, use it !

macOS : the official minimum version from BMD requirements is now v10.15 Catalina

Yellow warning at the top if the current selected BRAW timeline clip comes from a project item not in the same project than the timeline. It generally happens when using "Production" in PrPro, and it can involve Source Settings change reverted

With the previous warning, there is also a button to set the selected BRAW clips in timeline from a new Project Item created in the current project

Check our website for more information about working with Production and BRAW Studio : https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-Working-With-Production

After Effects : fixed issue when collecting the project

Convert BMD PrPro Panel : error when converting a project (started with the Blackmagic Design Premiere Pro Plugin) with some special effects plugins

Source Settings : Update Sidecar button was removing the LUT from the .sidecar

Licensing bug

"MAX AVAILABLE RES NEEDS TO BE INCREASED !" issue, happening when a .BRAW file was imported multiple times

The current panel selection could be wrong when last selection was made during panel processing

Conflicts issues when BRAW Studio Panel and PlumePack Panel (our other Autokroma product) were both opened at the same time

"Fix Selection" button behavior in panel while switching between Source Settings and Metadata tabs

PrPro Cache Rendered Previews : green line turned back to red sometimes since version 2.4.0. Now fixed but you will need to render them again once after updating

After Effects Layer Settings GPU decoding : artifacts could be visible at the bottom of big resolution frames (6K and more)

Preset and Sidecar loading / saving issues when the latest Gamut ("DaVinci Wide Gamut") and latest Gamma ("DaVinci Intermediate") were selected

Convert BMD PrPro Panel : issue when a .BRAW file was offline and missing in the project

Crash issue

Support for new cameras URSA Mini Pro 12K and BMPCC 6K Pro cameras, latest Camera Firmware (e.g. v6.9.4+ on URSA Mini Pro G1 and G2) and Nikon Z 6II / Z 7II .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

Support for Dual Card Recording, it will produce a separate .braw2 file with half of the frames. If this file is missing the imported main .braw file will only report half the framerate you recorded

Color Science Version 5 available for all .BRAW. Note : in this new Gen5, the curve is fixed so ISO and Exposure have the same effect, see CaptainHook message here https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=123096#p675106. Now we have a new Param for Color Science in BRAW Settings because before there was only Version 4

New Param in BRAW Settings : "Use Gamut Compression" checkbox will protect your extreme highlights, in the PrPro Panel it is next to the Color Space (Gamut) choice. WARNING : this Param is in BETA ! Do not use if not really needed, until BRAW 2.1 is out and BRAW Studio updated. Disable this if automatically enabled.

New Color Spaces (Gamuts) : Alexa Wide Gamut, DaVinci Wide Gamut

New Gammas : Log C, DaVinci Intermediate

Bug fix : incorrect resolution for 2.8K footage (for example it was 2868x1512 instead of 2864x1512), see https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=110719. Don't forget to change your sequences with this new correct resolution !

Note 1 : URSA 12K frames are huge, in PrPro we recommend using Playback and Paused Resolution at 1/4, in AEfx please use our Layer Settings with GPU acceleration (Metal / CUDA / OpenCL) enabled in the Settings

Note 2 : for all recent .BRAW (URSA 12K, BMPCC 6K Pro, recent firmware), Camera Metadata default values are Color Science at V5 and "Use Gamut Compression" enabled. We recommend turning off the latter, unless you really need it.

PrPro Panel "Trim BRAW" button in the Source Settings Tab : you can now trim a selected .BRAW file, creating a new file without unused frames while keeping the exact same metadata and the same original frames, very fast and without any re-encoding. In/Out points for the trim are taken from the Mark In / Mark Out bounds set in the Source Monitor of the Source clip from the Project Panel. Current Settings are exported in a .sidecar next to the .BRAW file. If you need more .BRAW Trimming feature we have another product called PlumePack for that purpose, check it out here : https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack

Preset Manager popup : new button to open the Global Presets folder, so it makes it easy to transfer your presets by copying around the presets you want !

Applying Preset or Saving Sidecar for multiple clips was broken in last 2.2.4 version

OSX : there was a crash message popping up when closing the panel

Added support for Nikon Z 6 and Z 7 Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

New Gamma in BRAW Settings : N-Log

BRAW Settings : some data are now stored locally from a session to another. It improves the Panel performance when re-starting Premiere Pro. Cache can be manually deleted from the Settings & License Popup

BRAW Settings : Load and Update Sidecar buttons are now available in Decode Using : "Camera Metadata" and "BRAW Default"

Metadata : new line "Has Embedded LUT"

PrPro Panel v2.2.3 slowdown fixed

When updating BRAW Studio, if a new choice was available in a BRAW Settings dropdown (like a new Gamma) : when opening an existing project it was impossible to select the new choice (one needed to re-import the footage to be able to select this new choice). This bug remains when updating from older versions, but it will be fixed from now on

BRAW Studio Panel had trouble with multiple projects in the same Premiere Pro session

"Reset to BRAW Default" button in BRAW Settings now sets the White Balance to fixed values (5500,10) instead of the previous behavior which was settings White Balance to "AsShot"

Toolbox Convert BMD bug fix

Toolbox Convert BMD : now supports mixed plugins projects. Use with caution ! The best is that you do not mix plugins and follow official instructions

ToolBox PrPro 2020 Shift : new method to correct your project in one click ! You don't need to relocate manually all your files anymore. Please send us your feedback if it works for you ! As always you need to use a .prproj BEFORE you notice the Shift. /!\ WARNING : When upgrading from BRAW Studio < 2.2.0 to BRAW Studio >= 2.2.0 you could get your .BRAW offline. When relinking them you could get the PrPro 2020 Shift, if that's the case DO NOT save your project shifted, and apply this automatic method to the project saved with BRAW Studio < 2.2.0

The first .BRAW selection is a bit longer because of the initialization. There is now a feedback text to inform this init process is running

Wrong multiple selection, for example when the selection was happening during another event

Bad Source Settings values displayed if the panel was not selected when clicking on buttons (Loading Preset / Reset to Camera Metadata etc.)

Toolbox Timecode Correction of Dropped Frame 29.97 fps BRAW footage in Premiere Pro after 14.3 version fixed

Metadata tab : new lines for "Timecode Frames" and "Timecode is Drop-Frame"

Panel is now disabled if BRAW Studio wasn't properly installed

Convert BMD Project fix on some big projects

Export Correct FCP .XML issue with Non Drop-Frame Timecode for .BRAW files at 29.97 fps (it seems like there is still the Adobe Timecode bug for this particular case)

Removed red popup which was happening in the Metadata tab when selecting an offline clip

Merged Clip Items composed of Audio and Video from different BRAW sources are now well displayed in the Panel Source Settings

Source Settings Merged Clips with network storage path were not working

Export correct FCP XML feature (useful for PPro versions < 14.3) was not working with BRAW files on network storages

Avoid "Error - Spawn E2BIG" error, which was especially happening with our First Frame Shift Issue Relocalization tool

Convert BMD bugs with big projects

Convert BMD : you can now properly transfer your .prproj (Premiere Pro project) started with the Blackmagic Design Premiere Pro Plugin to BRAW Studio in one click with the Premiere Pro Panel, available in the ToolBox tab

Metadata tab : each .BRAW metadata is now displayed row by row, they are constantly updated from the currently selected .BRAW. Might be more practical than Project Item Properties and Project Panel metadata columns, depending on your workflow

Toolbox tab : regrouping features that you only do once in a while such as Convert BMD, PrPro 2020 Shift Relocation, Export FCP .XML, Timecode Correction, Timecode Shift Correction

"Export Current BRAW Frame" button at the bottom of Source Settings Panel will export the current frame in the Source Monitor into a one-frame .BRAW file with .sidecar in the same folder with the same filename

Copy / Paste buttons at the top of the Source Settings Panel, easier to use than Global Presets for a quick transfer of RAW Params. You can paste to a selection of .BRAW too !

New animation is displayed when something is processing. Useful feedback when applying an action to multiple .BRAW and you need to wait a bit

Issue with non-ASCII chars in the filepath (especially with the Shift Correction process)

Issue with Merged Clips when Application Language wasn't English

Removed red error popup when importing a .BRAW File in CC 2018

Prev/Next buttons, the wrong item could be selected in the Timeline

"Open In Source Monitor" button is not available anymore in versions before CC 2019 (a red popup was displayed before)

Saving a Global Preset will now display a confirm popup, to avoid a misclick which would erase existing values in the Preset

.BRAW Thumbnails are back !

After Effects : "File exists but couldn't be opened for reading" error and warning popups are gone

Selected clip text now has an icon at its left, indicating if the selection waws made from the Timeline or from the Project Panel

Clicking on "Set New Source" now updates the selected Source in the Panel (no need to unselect and re-select the clip anymore)

When using Prev/Next buttons now the audio track item linked to the video track item is also selected if it exists

New Feature : Auto-Update. Panel will automatically download a new version of BRAW Studio if one is available. It can be disabled in the Settings

Fixed : sometimes "No BRAW Item selected" was displayed and Source Settings were disabled. If you still have this problem, please try to Reload the panel (button at the bottom of the Panel) or contact us

The maximum number of BRAW clips selected at the same time has been changed from 50 to 100

Some panel features (metadata, timecode, Source Settings) were not working when applied on a lot of BRAW files

"Correct 2020 PPro Shift" feature improvements and fixes

When a preset was renamed before saved, the name was erased

New Feature : click on the new "Set New Source" button, a subclip will be automatically created from the select .BRAW Project Item, and the currently selected .BRAW clip in the timeline will be re-assigned to this new subclip. It is useful if you have 2 clips in your timeline coming from the same Project Item, and you want to have different color grade (separated Source Settings). See our article https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Studio-Source-Settings-Panel

Bug fix : Prev and Next buttons with Titles in the sequence

Bug fix : "Correct 2020 PPro Shift" feature for big projects, it's also more performant and better suited for macOS when files are from different disks

Fixed : .BRAW file Metadata in the Project Item's "Comment" section were gone

Fixed : wrong frame displayed on NTSC framerate when Time Remapping was enabled

"Reload" button at the bottom is available to refresh the panel if a bug has appeared and prevented you from using it. Now you can use the Panel again without having to redock it manually, but don't forget to send us a bug report if you experience an undesired behavior !

Export Correct FCP .XML feature has been fixed

You can now control Source Settings of your .BRAW clips directly in your BRAW Studio Panel with a dedicated interface : no need to switch onto the Master tab anymore

The Source Settings currently showed are updated when you select a .BRAW Project Item (in the Project Panel) or a .BRAW Clip (on a timeline)

Multiple Selection Mode when you select multiple braw : you can batch apply Global Presets to all selected .BRAW, Save or Load sidecar and use the "Reset" buttons

"Next" and "Prev" buttons can be used to move from BRAW to BRAW throughout the timeline (next .BRAW will be the one closest in time to currently selected .BRAW)

You'll get a warning if you select a .BRAW clip with a Proxy attached and enabled

This issue is happening when files needs to be relocated and others files than .BRAW can be concerned, more info here https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Premiere-Pro-Timeline-Shift-First-Frame-After-Moving-Project-Relinking

We now have a new way to auto-correct your .prproj (Premiere Pro project file) directly, by relocating the files inside (any extension)

This new tool is in the "Shift Issues" tab of the BRAW Studio Panel, you will find there instructions to use it

New Feature : a new button lets you set the metadata of only the selected Clips in the Project Panel

Fixed Shift Correction : Avoid error message if special clips (like transparent Video) are in the timeline, also added security to be sure non braw clip cannot be shifted by the panel

Improved some blue message feedback launched by the panel

New Feature : a new button lets you correct the timecode of only the selected Clips in the Project Panel

Fixed : now the Panel can be used on hundreds of BRAW Clips for big projects

Support for Panasonic EVA1 + Canon EOS C300 Mark II Blackmagic RAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video Assist

New Color Spaces (Gamuts) : "V-Gamut" and "Canon Cinema Gamut"

New Gammas : "V-Log" and "Canon Log2"

Important Note : When opening older projects, it will be impossible to select the new Gammas and Gamuts. If you need them, you should import your .BRAW again

New Feature : FCP .XML Correction - the best way to get a correct XML in order to grade in Resolve ! Without modifying Adobe timecode and without experiencing timeline shifts after footage relocation because of the Adobe timecode fix. Read our article for more information https://www.autokroma.com/blog/BRAW-Wrong-Timecode-Adobe-Premiere-Pro/

Timecode Correction and Metadata Import are now two separates buttons, improved performances of Timecode Correction

Timecode Correction and Metadata Import : you don't need anymore to generate the thumbnail in the Project Panel before processing, all BRAW are ready to be processed at any time

Improved general appearance and design with clickable tabs

Compatible again with newest versions of PrPro (14.0.2 and onwards)

Fixed issues with Time Stretching and Time Remapping

Fixed issue with 8bpc when composition size was not the same than the .BRAW layer

Fixed memory leaks from version 1.8.2

Fixed crash in the Layer Settings which could happen when decoding at 1/3 resolution

Improved error message when applying the Layer Settings in a Layer not connected to a Source (Text, Null Object etc.)

Fixed : when the Layer Settings is disabled (abnormal situation), the Settings & License button was not working

Now that the Importer produces directly 32 bits image (16 bits was used before instead) the whole BRAW Studio pipeline can work in 32 bits : you can mix both Importer and Layer Settings in the same 32 bpc project

Big performance improvements in BRAW Studio Layer Settings

32 bits support

"Decode first frame only" checkbox in the Settings was removed, not useful anymore

Avoid wrong message when loading a preset

New "Manage Preset" button in the UI (below the "Save Preset" button) to be able to rename your currently selected preset. Presets will be named "Untitled Preset" until you rename them yourself

Total number of available presets is now 20 (was 10 before)

New article on our website explaining how to make copy of them for your own custom use

Import any .braw footage, supports 8 bpc and 16 bpc for now

Change the Blackmagic RAW Parameters in our Layer Settings Effect available under "Autokroma" in the Effects list (should only be applied on a .braw source footage layer)

Metadata in the Comment column of the project panel, set after applying the Layer Settings, in the form "R.X - S.Y - T.Z - G.B - CR.W" (with Reel X, Scene Y, Take Z, GoodTake B 1 or 0, Compression Ratio W)

Quickly compare two sets of RAW Params with Decode Using Custom A and B and the "Switch A/B" button !

"Reset to Camera Metadata" button to reset all current RAW Params to those from Decode Using Camera Metadata

Premiere Pro : You will be warned now if Timecode is wrong (23.98 / 29.97 fps), when importing a new clip or when opening an existing project. This yellow warning can be disabled in the Settings popup

Panel : "Set correct timecode and metadata" button now only fires one unique blue popup, to not clutter Premiere Pro logs

"Diagnostics" button in the Settings & License Popup in case if BRAW Studio is not installed properly

Premiere Pro / OSX : Right-click "Properties" on .braw Source will now give you the Timecode (Media Start), so you can check yourself what is the right timecode for 23.98 / 29.97 fps footages

LUT (Embedded or from Sidecar) is working now with Load / Update Sidecar buttons : it will store the state of the LUT (Disabled / Embedded / Sidecar) but not the data.

Fixed Load Sidecar issue : if Gamma was "Blackmagic Design Custom", Gamma Controls were not loaded correctly

Color Science dropdown list has been removed from GUI to make it simpler (It was disabled all the time before because only one choice was available : Color Science Version 4)

Fixed : When loading sidecar, White Balance Preset was set to "Custom" even though values corresponded to "As Shot"

Please use the usual GUI Panel (Top menu Window -> Extensions) to fix your NTSC timecodes and import your .braw metadata ! It's not done automatically (in background) anymore

Fixed : Premiere Pro being slow when editing on timeline

Fixed : Unable to "Undo" (CTRL+Z) last actions in some cases

Fixed : When batch importing lots of .braw, the Hidden Panel was working too much and users could consider it as a crash

No Shift issue if users don't want to correct timecodes (used to fix XML Export for DaVinci Resolve see https://www.autokroma.com/blog/Clip-Shifted-Issue-BRAW-Studio/ )

Crashes

Panel : Reduced errors

OSX Installer : Uninstall plugins checkboxes didn't work anymore and couldn't be selected alone

Deleted some scripts in the downloaded .zip as they were wrongly flagged by Anti Viruses (false positives)

ACESctt gamma had custom gamma controls enabled

License & Settings Popup : error message when clicking on "Open logs folder" fixed, can only open one popup at the same time now

For Prefs size errors, please clean your plugin cache (press SHIFT while launching Premiere Pro and click OK) !

Edge case crashes

Loading .sidecar with LUT

Existing projects with merged clip in previous versions had problems when loading in 1.5.2

Imported .braw will show grey now instead of Trial image, because BRAW Studio for After Effects is not available yet

As in DaVinci Resolve, there is now a checkbox "Apply LUT" and a dropdown list to choose the LUT Origin (Embedded or Sidecar)

Embedded LUT is the one which was saved from inside the camera when shot

Sidecar LUT is the one in the sidecar file next to the braw file. Sidecar LUT is loaded when PPro starts or when the clip is imported

The "Update Sidecar" and "Load Sidecar" buttons in Clip Mode are not concerned : LUT will not be saved in Sidecar and not loaded with these buttons

These new parameters are invisible if no Embedded or Sidecar LUT are available, only one choice in the dropdown if only one of them is available

New Metadata : BR Timecode = the good starting timecode of the braw file. Useful to check if the one in PPRo is correct

Fixed : After relinking a media, the timecode was wrong again

Fixed : "getFilenameFromFilepath" error message

Copying Source Settings from one clip to another lead to some unwanted red popup

"Run Script - Uncaught Error" when BRAW files were moved between 2 PPro sessions and needed new localization

"Stack Overrun" error when a lot of files were processed at the same time

Now working with files located on folder without writing permission

BRAW footages inside PPro project Bins were not processed

Avoid some unwanted error popups

New scripts in Manual Installation folder to help you when standard installation of panels didn't work

Copy / Paste Source Settings from one clip to another is working now (but not save / apply preset !)

Avoid freezes when loading a .BRAW File with a LUT inside

When an error was happening, some wrong messages were sent to the user

Automatically imports BRAW metadata : Camera Name, Scene, Take etc. automatically added to imported clips. You need to change Project panel columns display to see all of them

"Media Start" Timecode for NTSC Framerates fixed (=> now you can export to FCP XML and reimport it into DaVinci Resolve without issues)

Some frames were doubled and some missing

When audio track was shorter than video track (slow motion footage)

New button at the top of the Source Settings to access them (more visible than the little top right icon)

When clicking on "Open Log Folder" it will create automatically a .zip to send us

Analog gain restricts ISOs you can choose

BRAW Studio can now load braw files shot from Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K

New Color Spaces (Gamuts) : ACES AP0 and ACES AP1

New Gamma : ACEScct

New Color Spaces (Gamut) : Rec.709, Rec.2020, DCI-P3 D65, DCI-P3 Theater, CIE 1931 XYZ D65, CIE 1931 XYZ D50 PCS

New Gammas (Linear, Rec.2100 Hybrid Log Gamma, Rec.2100 ST2084 PQ)

Highlight Recovery mode

White Level & Black Level sliders in Gamma Controls

ISO 3200 available now

Some footage were impossible to open : now fixed