BLACKMAG I C RAW | USER REVI EW
BLACKMAGIC DESIGN RAW Blackmagic Design surprised everyone with the introduction of its own Raw file format, but how good is it? PRICE FREE DOWNLOAD
WORDS ADAM GARSTONE
images must understand something about the sensor, and how to convert the data into usable video. Again, all this processing is built into Resolve, but few other software packages produce acceptable quality pictures. RAW JOURNEY So Blackmagic set out, with their own Raw data format, to solve these issues, and a few more besides.
When you roll the camera it produces a folder full of files. Some post-production tools – including Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve – can understand this structure and merge them into a single, contiguous clip, but plenty can’t. The second issue is inherent in Raw files. The Raw file data comes straight off the camera sensor, so whatever you are using to view those
hen I first heard that Blackmagic Design had released a new Raw format for its cameras,
ABOVE The Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro is their first camera to be ratified for use with BRAW.
my first reaction was, “Huh? Don’t they already do Raw?” And they do – it supports the CinemaDNG open standard – and it works, kind of, but CinemaDNG has a couple of issues that cause problems in post-production.
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