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Rowan!
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September 7, 2021
Question

Premiere Pro Can't Recognized Adobe's Own Enhanced DNGs

  • September 7, 2021
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Asking if anyone knows the reason for this:

I want to use the new Enhance feature in Adobe Camera Raw to enlarge Blackmagic DNG files from HD to UHD: Using Camera Raw Enhance on a 1920x1080 file scales it perfectly to 3840x2160, aka 4K.

 

But Adobe Premiere Pro (version 15.4.1 running on a MacPro Big Sur 11.5.1) can't read Adobe's own Enhanced DNG file format, even though it had no issue with the initial ingest where PrPro made each folder (representing a shot from the camera) a single video file linked to the sequential raw files. 

 

In Adobe Bridge, I bring the individual files into Adobe Camera Raw, batch Enhance the files, then back in Bridge delete the original dng files, batch rename to remove "_Enhanced" and add a sequential number starting with _001. All that works fine. But then when I try to either relink those files or ingest them as a new video clip, Adobe PrPro says the files are damaged or an unknown format. (Interestingly, After Effects has no problem reading those same files, recognizing them as a single video file. I would use AAE as a work around but AAE has no way to export out to DNGs.)

 

So, Adobe's own NLE, which can normally read/ingest sequential video dng files, can't recognize Adobe's own Enhanced dng files from the same source. Why?

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Ann Bens
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September 9, 2021

If you send the files in Ae to AME you can export to any format.

Rowan!
Rowan!Author
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September 9, 2021

Sorry, no: AME can't export to DNG, which is exactly what I need for color correction down the line. I understand there are flavors of ProRes that are close but my question is still, Why can't an Adobe app recognize its own format?

 

I did discover the issue is not with Enhance. The issue is when Adobe Camera Raw (or even Adobe DNG Converter) creates another DNG file. PrPro can't read that file (and certainly not a sequence of those files). I've tried dozens of permutations but PrPro just cannot understand Adobe's own DNG format, which I find startling and simply weird.