BRAW Studio

Fully-featured Blackmagic RAW Importer plugins for Adobe CC

Main Features

The missing piece in your Blackmagic workflow

Premiere Pro : import and edit your .BRAW footages directly and natively with BRAW Studio !
Our BRAW Studio Panel will also help your daily workflow with awesome features such as : Source Settings Panel, Batch changes, Trimming, Toolbox tab etc.

After Effects : import your .BRAW and modify / experience the color grading in real time with our BRAW Studio Layer Settings filter, directly within AEfx interface

Media Encoder : re-encode and create proxies for your .BRAW

Fully featured

Access the same RAW color parameters from DaVinci Resolve and Load / Save them thanks to .sidecar files. Using the official BMD Color Science and BMD BRAW SDK

Custom A/B to quickly compare your different RAW Parameters set

20 Global Presets to store your RAW Params across Projects and Premiere Pro / After Effects

Custom LUT with our new feature "Add LUT To Sidecar"

Constantly updated

BRAW Studio is constantly updated with Blackmagic latest features : new cameras supported (Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K, 6K, 6K Pro, URSA Mini Pro G2, 12K etc.), new RAW params (color spaces, gammas, highlight recovery, embedded LUT), bugs fixes, new features etc.

All updates for the same version are free : see our Changelog. You can update the same way you installed BRAW Studio.

Note : BRAW Studio doesn't import .dng files

Articles

BRAW Studio Legacy Versions for Old Support (previous macOS and Adobe)

BRAW Studio requirements are regularly updated because of BMD requirements, in this page you will be able to access Legacy versions of our plugin to run unsupported platforms

How to Install Blackmagic RAW (.BRAW) Player and Thumbnails for Windows and macOS

Blackmagic Design website can be confusing so we have a special installer for you to easily install their Player and Thumbnails

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Technical Specifications

BRAW Studio is a suite of plugins and panel, adding a new .braw format to be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, After Effects, Audition. Its basic features are FREE (importer + Source Settings effect), but you have access to much more with a Premium license !

In Premiere Pro, you can access the Blackmagic RAW Params in our brand new BRAW Studio Source Settings Panel (available in top menu : Window -> Extensions). This Panel also provides useful utilities and workflow features, for example batch applying parameters changes to many clips at once, extracting Embedded LUT, importing your footages metadata, a Toolbox tab etc. On After Effects you will be able to use the BRAW Studio Layer Settings effect to color grade your .BRAW which is impossible without BRAW Studio.

Requirements

One license is for the same user on up to two computers not used at the same time
Adobe CC 2019 to 2023 included
macOS Intel and Apple Silicon : 10.16 / 11 (Big Sur) to 13 (Ventura)
Microsoft Windows 10 and 11. CPU : at least SSE4.1 instructions set. Most CPUs before 2008 are not compatible (e.g. AMD Phenom II. AMD Phenom II X6 is not compatible !). Compatibility with Intel starts with Core 2 Penryn architecture in 2008. This is a limitation of the BRAW API

Known bugs

Please note all those bugs are from Adobe and you will also experience them using Blackmagic's PrPro plugin :
You can't use properly the PrPro Project Manager with .braw files but you can use PlumePack instead
If you need to use Replace Clip feature in Premiere Pro to change one of your source by another, there could be conflicts afterward with the Source Settings (the ISO List could be wrong and the sidecar file will stay to its old path). However, after using Replace Clip, you can save your project, close and restart Premiere Pro and everything will be fine. The same problem happens when copy pasting the Source Settings effect from a BRAW file to another on Premiere Pro 2022 onwards. If you want to copy BRAW Settings, please use BRAW Studio Panel : there is a Copy and Paste button inside and it can be applied to a multiple BRAW selection.
Do not save / apply presets on the Source Settings, please read our article about alternative methods
Media Start timecode for 29.97fps NTSC footage is wrong. This also means you can't export Final Cut Pro XML and import the timeline into DaVinci Resolve properly. Please follow our article to solve this issue