BRAW Studio
BRAW Studio Blackmagic RAW Importer for Adobe CC (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Media Encoder)
The missing piece in your workflow
- Premiere Pro and Media Encoder : import, edit, re-encode, create proxies for your
.BRAWfootages 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
.BRAWand modify / experience the color grading in real time with our BRAW Studio Layer Settings filter, directly within AEfx interface - Access the same RAW color parameters than in DaVinci Resolve, using the official BMD Color Science and BMD BRAW SDK
A brand new Desktop App
- Play and Color Grade your
.BRAWdirectly with our new Desktop Player App by opening it from your Finder/Explorer - Save your settings on sidecar: it will be automatically applied inside any NLE (DVR, PPro, AEfx, AME)
- Find the same tools than in our plugins: White Balance Color Picker, Custom A/B, Presets, Custom LUT etc.
- Remove unused frames and keep the BRAW Codec with the same quality by using the Trim Tool
- Get easily all Metadata from your
.BRAW
Fully featured
- White Balance Color Picker to automatically make your footages neutral in a few clicks !
- 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 / Desktop Player
- Custom LUT with our new feature "Add LUT To Sidecar"
- Note : BRAW Studio doesn't import
.dngfiles
What our clients say about BRAW Studio
Braw Studio V3 is working great. I love it. Very easy to do fairly serious color grading right in the app...I am finding I only use Lumetri for a little final tweak...but Braw Studio allows me to quickly get very close to a grade with little effort. Having control over so many parameters is game-changing. Braw Studio is a great piece of software that does what it's supposed to do and does it fast.
Arlin Godwin
Role: Filmmaker
Technical specifications
BRAW Studio is a stand-alone desktop software to play and grade BRAW files, and it also includes a suite of Adobe plugins (+ Premiere Pro 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 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.
You also have access to our new Desktop Player and Color Grader application, letting you do everything you need with your .BRAW files without launching a video editing application such as DaVinci Resolve and Premiere Pro.
- One license is for the same user on up to two computers not used at the same time
- Adobe Premiere Pro and Media Encoder from 13.0 (CC 2019) to 25 (2025) included
- Adobe After Effects from 16.1 (CC 2019) to 25 (2025) included
- macOS Apple Silicon (M1 etc.) and Intel : 12 (Monterey) to 15 (Sequoia)
- 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
- 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 Clipfeature 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 usingReplace 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
