BRAW Toolbox allows you to import Blackmagic RAW files directly into Final Cut Pro without transcoding.
You can even import Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive clips as 16320x7200 side-by-side!
No more waiting. No more transcoding. No more massive ProRes files.
Save hours of time, and terabytes of storage!
It also now ships with a Media Extension allowing you to read Blackmagic RAW files directly within QuickTime Player, Final Cut Pro and other applications that support macOS Media Extensions.
The BRAW Toolbox Workflow Extension allows you to prepare all of your footage prior to import. You can easily and quickly change all the RAW parameters, and copy and paste settings from different BRAW clips. You can even save and restore Presets that contain specific parameters, saving time for example, if you always use the same Gamut & Gamma.
Once imported into Final Cut Pro, you can still modify the RAW parameters at any time.
You can even keyframe the ISO, Exposure, Color Temp, Tint and Custom Gamma Controls!
BRAW Toolbox comes with a Metadata View that allows you to view every piece of BRAW Metadata directly within the Final Cut Pro Inspector.
There are automatic Decode Quality options for both HD and UltraHD projects, and you can also work at a low Decode Quality, then apply a "Global Setting" to force Full Quality prior to exporting - meaning you never have to worry about creating proxies for performance. BRAW Toolbox gives you complete freedom and flexibility.
You can also use the Workflow Extension to send your project/timeline to DaVinci Resolve for grading - all using BRAW files directly from the camera!
BRAW Toolbox requires Final Cut Pro v10.6.5 or later. It works great on the latest Final Cut Pro v12.2 release.
Whilst it works on Intel, we strongly recommend Apple Silicon Mac's.
The BRAW Toolbox icon was designed by the amazing Matthew Skiles.
The incredible surf footage (as seen in the above screenshots) was captured by Sydney based Director/Cinematographer, Adrian Emerton.
BRAW Toolbox was created by LateNite - the same team behind CommandPost, Marker Toolbox, Gyroflow Toolbox and others.
You can find information on System Requirements, Installation and How To Use on our website:
https://brawtoolbox.fcp.cafe
You can find out about our other tools on FCP Cafe:
https://fcp.cafe/latenite/
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Save your money and just use DR. Its much easier
Samuelby
Although I appreciate the developer for making a app to convert braw files for FCP, it still didn't work for me. I was able to initally convert the 101 files for my project but the render speeds were horrendous and too many other problems/glitches that I had with the converted files just made it extremely hard to work with. YOU CAN DOWNLOAD DAVINCI RESOLVE FOR FREE AND JUST COPY/PASTE ALL YOUR BRAW FILES INTO THE TIMELINE AND EXPORT. It can export all the files individually also so no need to worry about it being one big video. Ended up working so much faster with the files converted straight from Davinci Resolve with no problems or glitches. Also could have saved me 80 bucks
Developer Response
I'm sorry to hear that! We certainly have lots of users all over the world using BRAW Toolbox without any issues. Did you try contacting us via email or GitHub? A lot of the time we get emails with people misunderstanding things, and there's normally a simple fix. Feel free to reach out if you want help problem-solving! FWIW - we also use BRAW Toolbox internally for our own Final Cut Pro editing, and don't have any problems on our M1 MacBook Pro's.
The tool we have dreamed of is here.
Chasing Photography
For lovers of Final Cut Pro who have struggled with the endless BRAW proxy XML loop, this is a dream come true. BRAW natively inside Final Cut. Controls for RAW adjustments at your fingertips. Is it the full Resolve interface? No, doesnt need to be, Between BRAW ToolBox and FCP, most edits can be done natively without ever having the leave the Final Cut NLE.If you shoot any BRAW camera, this is the best of both worlds if you live in the FCP ecosystem. Thank you latenightfilms team for this, its a huge step forward and a wonderful plugin.
Developer Response
Thanks for your kind words! Happy cutting!
I've been waiting for this!
Scott_Hartman
I can finally use my two Blackmagic cameras and shoot in BRAW. As a Final Cut Pro editor, I'm really excited. The app is working great! I really appreciate the team at LateNite for all the hard work it took to get this up and running. Well worth the money to be able to handle BRAW seamlessly.
Developer Response
Awesome! Happy Cutting!
More Trouble Than It's Worth
Snake lover 6789
I purchased BRAW Toolkit to try to simplify and speed up my BRAW to FCPX workflow but this isn't the answer.It's true that you can save some hard drive space by skipping the proxy stage. But everything else becomes more complicated.BRAW files are imported to FCPX through an import process which handles them in a strange way, rather than just reading them natively. As a result, I'm constantly re-linking files that haven't changed paths or dealing with security-scoped issues. Sometimes I just get errors saying BRAW Toolkit couldn't load my file. And for all of these errors there are solutions that use up more of my time than this was supposed to save.I'm not blaming them for failing to have BRAW files behave as native in FCPX—I know that's not in their power. And I give the developer(s) credit for trying to solve an issue of need, but BRAW Toolkit is convoluted and I'm going back to my previous DR to FCP to DR roundtripping, with less money now in my pocket.
Developer Response
Sorry to hear you’re having a bad experience! We have thousands of users using BRAW Toolbox daily without issue. It’s been used on television commercials, feature films and TV shows. Have you tried contacting us via email? Have you granted sandbox access to the drive containing your BRAW footage? Check out the “Collaboration” page on the help website. Yes, it works a bit differently, but once you understand how it works - it’s very easy to use, and actually gives you even more control than DaVinci Resolve - ie every RAW parameter is keyframeable. If you’re having performance issues or if it requires relinking all the time for no reason SOMETHING is going wrong - this is not usual. Feel free to reach out!
IMPROVEMENTS:
- This release has MAJOR under-the-hood improvements for the Media Extension in terms of playback performance. The playback performance now more closely matches the legacy BRAW Toolbox Workflow Extension. It's not quite as good as DaVinci Resolve - but it's super close now. Thanks for reporting Dustin Painter & Robin! Thanks for your help Final Cut Pro team! Thanks for your ideas and suggestions AdrianEddy & Brian Elliott Tate!
- Gyroflow support in the Media Extension has also had MAJOR under-the-hood improvements. The results in the Media Extension should now exactly match the official Gyroflow application and Gyroflow Toolbox. Thanks for reporting mhbsavant! Thanks heaps AdrianEddy!
- The Media Extension now has the ability to read Gyroflow projects as sidecar files. If your BRAW file has a .gyroflow file with the same filename next to it, the Media Extension will use the Gyroflow settings from that file.
- There's a new "Immersive Export" feature in BRAW Toolbox. If you create a 16320x7200 @ 90fps timeline in Final Cut Pro and cut together Blackmagic RAW Immersive clips using the Media Extension, you can now export a ProRes and FCPXML, and use BRAW Toolbox to generate an Apple Immersive Video Universal (.aivu) file that can be loaded on the Apple Vision Pro.
- We now bundle two transitions in Final Cut Pro, "Immersive Fade" and "Immersive Cross Fade", that don't do anything visually in your Final Cut Pro timeline, but tell the "Immersive Export" tool to apply transitions to these clips via metadata.
BUG FIXES:
- The BRAW Toolbox v3.0.0 Media Extension was creating cache files that were not always correctly cleaned up - wasting hard drive space. This is now fixed. Thanks for reporting Iain Anderson & Christian Miranda!
- If the BRAW Toolobox v3.0.0 Media Extension was unexpectedly taking up hard drive space, please manually delete the "/Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/Library/Containers/com.latenitefilms.BRAWToolbox.FormatReader" and "/Users/YOUR-USER-NAME/Library/Containers/com.latenitefilms.BRAWToolbox.RAWProcessor" folders on your system to clean up the space.
- Fixed a bug where Blackmagic RAW clips were not displaying correctly in Apple Compressor. Thanks for your help Final Cut Pro team!
- The "Launch Final Cut Pro" button in the BRAW Toolbox application now works with Final Cut Pro Creator Studio (subscription) and the Final Cut Pro v11 free trial. Thanks for reporting Sebastian Leitner!
- Fixed a bug in the Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension, where the "Relink BRAW Clips within an LIBRARY / EVENT / PROJECT" Toolbox didn't support Final Cut Pro Creator Studio (subscription) or Final Cut Pro v11 free trial. Thanks for reporting Aldo!
- Reduced the application bundle file size by compressing a TIFF. Thanks for reporting Dmitry Lavrov!
Version 3.1.0
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