ProRes RAW ISO, white-balance and tint controls

As a Sony FX3 owner, I got tired of waiting for this and created the solution.

I’ve helped build an Adobe Premiere Pro plugin solution to this problem: OCTOPUS RAW Studio - we’ve developed our own Apple approved ProRes RAW decoder and RAW pipeline processor which exposes pretty much every RAW control you can think of and more (And obviously includes ISO, white-balance and tint!).

They (almost) never ever release information about things until they come out in the public beta.

Hello,
My whole team shoots in ProRes RAW and what's very frustrating is not having full control over the file in terms of ISO, white balance and so on. Do you have any idea when we'll be able to benefit from these functions in the same way as Final Cut?

Hear, hear to all of the recent comments. With respect, it's been long enough, and enough is enough. Adobe and the relevant team(s) simply must listen to their paying customers and implement these basic features, which we need to do our jobs effectively and harness the significant hardware investments we've made. We also deserve a timeline amd an explanation for the inordinate delay. Thank you.

Everybody get back i this forum and upvote everything until we make (usable) prores raw support reality! Comment, share, discuss with your fellow filmmakers and brung them here. It really is a disgrace that adobe dont get their act togehter on such a mayor request from their commuity. 

They really do -.-

100% 

Please make good on your promise to talk 1:1 with us and answer the questions form your community. Did we get that right? Is it really not apples fault but yours? I cant believe that. I always thought the reason why prores raw is not in any way supported was because of some bs license politics issue on apples part but that it is your ignorance i cant believe. Answer! When cam we expect you to fix this? We need Iso, wb anf tint control asap! Or i swear to god i will do what you seem to want me to do and sell all my sony gear and invest in blackmagic and resolve! 

Hi Fergus,

Could you elaborate a bit more on why Premiere Pro doesn't allow white balance and ISO adjustments when filming with, for example, the Sony a7siii and the Atomos Ninja V? In your response, it seemed as if there were no technical reasons preventing this, neither from Apple's nor Atomos' side, and that it would be possible, but you don't have the capacity for it or don't consider it important enough compared to other raw formats. This, however, is absolutely incomprehensible to me. What kind of effort are we talking about here? Is it a matter of licensing and therefore costs, or do you simply not think it's worth the effort? To explain, raw recordings are becoming increasingly important in almost all areas of professional filmmaking these days. And there are basically only four ways to do this: with Red cameras and R3D raw, with Sony cameras from the CineAlta line and their X-OCN codecs, with Arri RAW, or with Blackmagic cameras and their ability to film in BRAW.

But all of these options have significant limitations. Cameras from Arri, Red, and Sony's CineAlta line are expensive and not affordable for many owner-operators, and while Blackmagic's BRAW is a great alternative, Blackmagic cameras lack some features that other mirrorless cameras in this segment often have, such as high frame rates and autofocus. Furthermore, many of us are already invested in a particular ecosystem (in my case, Sony), and we don't want to sell all our lenses and cameras just to switch to an entirely new ecosystem because you're not doing your job. I apologize if that sounds harsh, but that's how it currently feels to me and many other filmmakers I've spoken with about this.

Lastly, the new MacBooks from Apple have dedicated hardware encoders for ProRes files, which significantly simplifies post-processing compared to R3D raw, which is already much slower than ProRes. ProRes RAW is simply THE solution to all our problems if you would just enable it. It doesn't violate the RED patent since it's recorded externally, it's a true RAW format, it's optimized for Apple devices—which is great for Apple users—it offers 12-bit color depth, and it’s much smoother to edit than R3D raw, for example, without needing to create proxies. But then you come along and deny us the ability to adjust ISO and white balance. Those are existential advantages of RAW, Adobe! I don't know what else to say. Please, please, please, Adobe, make it happen and make it happen quickly. It won't help us in 2027 when RED's patent expires. We need it now, now, now!!!!!! Every project we lose because of this counts. Please make it happen; we can't wait any longer.

Best regards from Germany,

Richard

February 2024, still no updates. This is ridiculous.