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July 5, 2023
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Support for Arri Alexa 35 ARRIRAW HDE

  • July 5, 2023
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Hi

I've just started a project where we shot everything on the new Arri Alexa 35.

We used a mix of both ProRes4444 XQ and ARRIRAW.

The ProRes files plays back with no problem in both Premiere and After Effects (+DaVinci Resolve)

ARRIRAW works fine to.

Problem is that we used the Arri/Codex workflow with High Density Encoding (ARRIRAW HDE) that reduces the file size by 50% but maintaining the RAW data.

https://help.codex.online/content/high-density-encoding 

But it seems like Adobe isn't supporting the HDE format.

Everything works great in DaVinci Resolve and that's why we felt comfortable deleting the original ARRIRAW-RAW files.

So grade/online is no problem but I'm doing all cleanup in After Effects and can't import the HDE-clips.

I can transcode via Resolve but it's an annoying extra step.

 

So, I'm wondering if support for HDE in Adobe applications is on the horizon?

Would be awesome since the Alexa 35 really produces superb images and we have several projects coming up that we are going to use it on.

And with HDE you can transcode files to the size of ProRes but maintaining RAW data

2 replies

nishu_kush
Community Manager
Community Manager
April 1, 2024

Moving the post to the Ideas so others can vote.

 

Best,

Nishu

Participating Frequently
January 20, 2024

Yes, really hoping Premiere Pro supports HDE from Arri soon! It's an incredible codec that I imagine will be used very often on many productions. Adobe, please bring HDE support to Premiere Pro asap!