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Funnily, it was Adobe who developed DNG and CinemaDNG, but Premiere's implementation appears to be subpar. Different than Photoshop/Camera Raw for sure. For clients who want to do post in Premiere we pass the footage through Slimraw, which fixes the levels. We usually also do this for clients on...

Does RawTherapee work with compressed DNG photos? I'd like to try it and I have all my photos lossless compressed with slimRAW. They work in Lightroom and Camera Raw but I haven't used RawTherapee before.

Yes, different uses - different priorities. Price is a perfectly valid reason to get one or the other. We'll likely be renting first. Playing with samples for now. Never done a proper comparison. But it is really about the storage space saved first and foremost.

You should be able to more or less double this with the 10-bit log lossless option. :) I am told there is no practical reason not to use this as the default setting with both the DJI cameras, and I can't see any difference with the originals when pixel peeping. We'll now likely step it up to VBR...

Yes. Everything it spits out is .dng. That's one of the things I really dig about it - nothing changes with the workflow inside Resolve or Premiere, only the files are smaller.

Works fine with the samples I have. I also wrote them an email with the same question, they answered that it works and the site will be updated soon with the newer cameras added to the list.

The software we are using for offload and for archiving of CinemaDNG footage (www.slimraw.com) has multiple compression levels, but the higher levels are only compatible with Resolve. We use it for offload to our storage anytime we work with CinemaDNG (except the X5R, which needs to be offloaded...

I would imagine the only case one would want to render higher than UltraHD is for 4K cinema. Or maybe for VFX plates. For now, I am content with UltraHD renders. :) I am not scared by the magenta highlights in Premiere (Slimraw fixes them fine for me), but Resolve definitely has the edge for...

"Outperforms the Alexa" is certainly a stretch, resolution is only a small part of the image quality equation, and there are many reasons the Alexa familty is the industry standard. But CinemaDNG from the X5S does look beautiful indeed. If you are coming from a photo background then working...

I also played a bit with the image. We had similar magenta weirdness back with the X5R. Luckily it goes away after we pass the files through Slimraw. I figure it is somehow related to the dark import. Left original frame, right - after Slimraw. Default DNG settings in Premiere in both. Thanks...

Thank you!

Yes, this is the Inspire 2 sample Feet Up and I have been commenting on. But it appears to be shot with the X5R camera and not the X5S (it's resolution is 3840x2160, not 5.2K, and the metadata inside says X5R).

This is interesting. Do you have any sample raw frames you could share?

With the X5R we are using a program called Slimraw, which fixes the very dark import in Premiere and also does raw compression and shrinks the dng files. I tried it with this sample and it is fixed in when I import in Premiere. BTW, this sample is apparently from the X5R camera, not the X5S. At...

Thank you, but I am looking for .dng frames to play with. :)