Raw convertor 4+

Does what it says!

I used it to convert a drone shot I recieved on a shoot. Also tried some sample footage. Only 300frames of sample footage, as it requires another purchace,

I wish there was an option of 1 purchase of all supported cameras, so there isn't one for each one you come along with, Especially for DIT's, or loaders that have to pay for each one, and may not have internet in the field.

Great start, but needs improvement

The compression setting are all too low until you get to 3:1, which ends up being 10% larger files than the original, but still with percievable loss. Lossless is the next step, but is 3x the size of the original.

Aprart from that there is no accounting for the color space of the original camera color/gamma. So once converted, it ends up far from Slog or C-Log, etc and the LUTs that you may like to use for those color spaces no longer function as intended, making matching other cameras far more difficult.

That said, this app has promise to bring much-needed Resolve compatibility to ProresRAW, so I'd love to see support for color space conversion/retention and better compression performance.

Developer Response ,

Could you please share a sample footage which has this perceivable loss for our testing?

The color space to which the RAW footage is developed depends solely on the developing application, which is Resolve in your case. As of today, they do not give you a free choice to develop to your desired gamut/log combination - but you can always go through a temporary primary format (P3/Linear or similar lossless combination), apply a CST node to a vendor specific gamut/log and then continue with your LUT based workflow that expects such specific gamut/log on its input.

Resolve has only an undocumented feature to allow selection of developing to V-gamut/V-log when it detect a cDNG file from a Panasonic camera. They have not implemented such detection for other camera models or vendors.

From the technical perspective, we retain the original sensor raw gamut, which does even differ among models of same vendor - and only later are they developed to an unified vendor specific gamut.

Fantastic app with great updates

Been using this program since 2023 and love the updates and how quickly the devs take feedback.

One feature I'd LOVE to have would be the ability to "trim" a clip with in and out points, giving us the ability for even smaller file sizes should we need it on those constant roll takes waiting for the shot to happen.

Developer Response ,

This functionality was added in the latest version (5.0.0).