Support for Nikon NRaw

Fergus,

Thanks for the information. As noted, I'll be interested in using the NRAW when it's available. And as always, I appreciate your work and your posting here. Thanks.

@xaci_68 My apologies if it seems we're proud of this. It was not the intent of my message to give you that impression; I think "relieved" is more the feeling! I apologise for the inconvenience lack of N-RAW support has caused you.  

Regards,

Fergus

@Creative Spades I hear what you're saying and I'm sorry that we've lost you as a customer. 

While I can't speak to the other Adobe products you mention, I can speak to this specific example because it was my decision initially to pause work on N-RAW when its future was unclear and the demand for it was (relative to other feature requests) low. RED's SDK provides the right solution for us to implement N-RAW support. The reason we are still working on it is that the RED SDK that has N-RAW support is a beta that was released on Feburary 5 and we only incorporate shipping SDKs into our products. We're working very closely with RED and Nikon, and once the SDK is final, we will build that into our products, test it, and ship it. 

Regards,

Fergus

Welcome to the discussion! More viewpoints is always (nearly always at least) more better.

Though I'm guessing you haven't read much "around here" ... as there are tons of posts more critical than yours, that have been up for years.

I've posted far more epic rants about things here, personally ... which you can still find if you wanna dig back some. As have many others.

So do feel welcomed to post rants and disagreements, but ... always keep on topic, polite, and professional. And again, the more posting, the better.

Next, history does often matter, and many readers probably don't know the history here. So I'll add that in because it definitely does matter here.

Realistically ... I'm someone who came outta stills, where we went from Mamiya RB67 ProS 6x7 medium format film rigs, to Nikon "35mm" bodies for digital, and have only used Nikon cameras for our pro studio since 2002. My last "new" Nikon was a D3, btw. So I've a history with Nikon since the D200 era, through all the cameras since. Up to that D3 that I loved using.

But then I migrated to video, which meant leaving Nikon. Because Nikon didn't have decent, pro-usable video even well after the D3 was replaced.

The missus newest camera, as a stills shooter, is a year old Nikon, an amazing camera in all, and yea, it does Nikon RAW ... though she primarily shoots stills still.

But ... as someone well versed in all things Nikon, I had to go outside the Nikon environment to get good video kit. So I now shoot most of my video production on BlackMagic cams. Because quality versus price ... Ursa Mini Pro 4.6k G2, and BMPCC4K for b-cam.

Before getting my first BlackMagic camera, and as a Nikon user, full set of lenses et al, it was frustrating to see Canon go hard into video, and Nikon ... not at all. Then finally, Nikon made some small video moves, but ... tepidly. And because Nikon was so tepid in developing the video capabilities, there was no one, in much of any pro video workflows, shooting Nikon. Up until about two years ago. Period.

So two years ago, finally! ... Nikon jumped in, big time, but ... they were now at the end of the line of a ton of cameras, that were already out there. And all of which had been out for quite some time, and many of which had far more users working pro video.

Which explains why Nikon video support was not a huge priority for most app companies, really. And just as Adobe announced they were working on Nikon raw, Nikon bought Red, and things went totally fluid. As a long-time self-employed busisness person, I understand so well having to make priority decisions you don't like but must make because of the situation at hand. Reality bites badly, if you ignore it.

What was going to happen with Nikon formats? ... who knew? So I can see why backing off the engineer time to develop Nikon raw support made sense at the time, as frustrating as it is to many users. Including us, as if Nikon raw was supported, I'd be using that camera more for additional footage. They have clearly been discussing things quietly with Nikon but we users never hear about that stuff.

Fergus has been immensely helpful to all camera users of all brands, but he has only so many people and as noted above, they have so many cameras to support. Who keep coming out with new versions of their internal formats. Causing issues as the new versions of so many formats require nearly a rewrite of how  they're processed.

So just keeping all currently supported cameras fully supported is a right heavy load. If you look through the forum, you see the work they're having to do with several far more major-use video camera formats than Nikon raw.

So yea, I'm frustrated we users haven't had Nikon raw already, but ... I understand priorities. And also ... that I'm one user. Period. My needs will be different than every other user out there.

I totallly understand the frustration at the lack of Nikon raw support. That said ... I'm grateful Fergus has announced they are working on Nikon raw again.

It isn't a perfect world. None of the video post apps do everything and every major format. And I use other pro video software daily also. Not at all Adobe only. I even teach use of other pro video software. And Tangent panels. And ... well, other stuff. 

This announcement comes as you are proud of it... 

this is simply unacceptable the support for N-raw not here already after all these years....

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Hi all, 

I have good news for people following this thread: we have restarted work on adding Nikon N-RAW support to our video products. We expect to release N-RAW support later this year. 

For the curious, N-RAW support is coming via an update to RED's SDK. Adobe has worked closely with RED for many years to support RED's R3D format, so we are delighted that the purchase of RED by Nikon has resulted in N-RAW support being added to the RED SDK.

As soon as N-RAW support is available in public beta, I will update this post. 

Regards,

Fergus

Nikon’s N-RAW format has been around for years now, following the release of the Z9, Z8, and now the Z6III. As one of the top three camera brands in the WORLD, I would expect one of the most popular editing platforms to complete their process of adding support for the NEV file format. Yet, we haven't had a single update since March 2024. Almost a year has passed, and Adobe has made no progress on integrating NEV files. Instead, the only response has been to suggest using a different format. What kind of response is that? I didn’t ask if I could use MOV files, I asked why I cannot use NEV files. On behalf of every Nikon user, we would greatly appreciate the ability to use NEV files in our projects through your platform. We have waited long enough. Please, for the love of God, add support for NEV files.

After downloading NEV files off the camera I try to import them into premiere and recieve a file format is not supported pop up.

Hi all, 

I would like to let people here know that we have paused work on adding N-RAW support to our video products. When we have an update to share on potential future support for N-RAW, I will update this thread. 

I locked this thread because it was becoming a debate on the value of N-RAW in general as a format, versus the desire to it to be supported in Adobe's video products. However, while the thread is locked for additional comments, we welcome additional upvotes to indicate requests for N-RAW support. 

Regards,

Fergus