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Fergus H
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Fergus HCommunity Manager
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January 16, 2025
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Now in Beta: Hardware acceleration for Canon Cinema RAW Light

  • January 16, 2025
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We’re excited to announce that hardware acceleration of Canon’s Cinema RAW Light format is now in the latest beta versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder. You should expect to see significantly improved editing & transcoding performance when using Cinema RAW Light files in the beta: smooth playback on the timlineline and export performance improved by up to 10x.

 

The initial beta release adds Cinema RAW Light acceleration for Apple silicon computers. A future beta will add hardware support on Windows and we will update this post when that beta is available. 

 

We’d love to get your feedback on this update!

 

Regards,

Fergus

 

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    Fergus H
    Community Manager
    Fergus HCommunity ManagerAuthor
    Community Manager
    April 18, 2025

    Hi all, 

     

    In the latest betas of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder, hardware acceleration for Cinema RAW Light is now available for Windows customers with NVIDIA GPUs. We'd love to get your feedback!

     

    As always, we encourage Windows customers to ensure that they are using a recent GPU driver. Customers with an NVIDIA GPU should go to www.nvidia.com/drivers, choose the appropriate hardware and OS, then download the Studio version of the driver. 

     

    Regards,

    Fergus

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      Kirsi21888295ykon
      Known Participant
      March 24, 2025

      @Fergus H Any news on getting this also to Windows side? Or is GPU memory amount a bottleneck?

      Fergus H
      Community Manager
      Fergus HCommunity ManagerAuthor
      Community Manager
      March 24, 2025

      @Kirsi21888295ykon GPU memory isn't a bottleneck. It is running and being tested internally, in preparation for a public beta release. I'll update this post when it is in beta. 

       

      Regards,

      Fergus

        Tommaso B
        Tommaso B
        Participating Frequently
        April 10, 2025

        This is good news. I am really looking forward to see Canon Cinema RAW Light being GPU accelerated. Hopefully we can get a fast workflow with the latest Nvidia cards.
        On the other hand, do you think that Canon RAW (not Cinema RAW light) could ever be CUDA accelerated?

        Best regards,
        Tommaso

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        stevetomich
        Participant
        February 4, 2025

        Hey Fergus,

         

        Just downlaoded and installed hte latst PPro beta, to get this enhanced Canon Raw performance on my 2019 iMac.  Specs are here:

         

         

        I'm disappointed to say that my CRM files (shot on a Canon C200, 4K), import, but show up as blank screens in my projet and in the source monitor.  The same files work fine in my 25.1 (October 2024) verion of PPro.

         

        Suggestions?

         

        Thanks,

         

        Steve Tomich

        stevetomich@gmail.com

        Fergus H
        Community Manager
        Fergus HCommunity ManagerAuthor
        Community Manager
        February 4, 2025

        @stevetomich Thanks for the info! We do not plan on providing hardware acceleration on Apple computers with Intel processors. However, you should not be seeing a blank screen. I'll check with the engineering team and get back to you. 

         

        Regards,

        Fergus

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        stevetomich
        Participant
        February 4, 2025

        Thanks, Fergus!  Sorry for the dumb wuestion--I had forgotten that my 2019 iMac was still on Intel.

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        Dustin26659971bnvv
        Participant
        January 24, 2025

        Unfortunately the speed improvements still aren't up to par to make this usable on my system. I get dropped frames and slow playback with my Macbook Pro M3, Apple M3 Pro chip, 18 GB ram, driving an LG Ultrafine 27 inch display and an HP Z27Xs G3 27 inch display. 

        I'm trying to view a single sequence of 5.9k raw from the C500 II with a standard rec709 transform on it and it still can't play back at full quality. 

         

        Trying to run a multicam sequence of 5.9k raw form the C500II and 8k raw from the R5C is unusable and stops completely. 

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        Adobe Employee
        Martie_B
        Adobe Employee
        January 27, 2025

        Hi Dustin26659971bnvv
        To help us fully understand your workflow better, can you provide a few more details-
        1) You listed a "Macbook Pro M3, Apple M3 Pro chip, 18 GB ram", based on this can you confirm that is a 12-core machine?
        2) Can you confirm the frame rate and color depth on the files used in "single sequence of 5.9k raw from the C500 II"- are they 59.94P / 29.97P / 23.98P / 24.00P and 10bit or 12bit files?
        3) Can you confirm the frame rate for the 8K raw from the R5C media files used? Was it 30fps or less, or the new 8k @ 60fps?

        4) Did reducing the playback resolution on the timeline help in any of your 5.9k or 8K playback workflows?
        Regards,
        Martie

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          Dustin26659971bnvv
          Participant
          January 27, 2025

          Here's some additional info for you on my current setup:

           

           Model Number: MRX43LL/A

            Chip: Apple M3 Pro

            Total Number of Cores: 12 (6 performance and 6 efficiency)

            Memory: 18 GB

           

          2) Frame rate is 23.98 and 12 bit for the 5.9k raw LT C500 II footage

          3) 23.98 for the 8k raw LT footage from the R5C

          4) Even at 1/16 resolution I can't get smooth playback on either stream. 

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          Kirsi21888295ykon
          Known Participant
          January 21, 2025

          In my M1 MAX Macbook Pro playback of 8K RAW light clips on a 4K timeline is possible without dropped frames in full resolution. That is awesome. But on the other hand there are multiple issues with the current beta, mainly the timeline freeze issue, that is making the use of the program almost impossible. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. What is the time frame for the HW acceleration to come to Windows? Days, weeks, months?

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          w. ashleym4223359
          Participating Frequently
          January 17, 2025

          This is great news. I didn't use rawLT because its such a pain in Adobe to edit. Looking forward to this! Thank you!

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          w. ashleym4223359
          Participating Frequently
          January 17, 2025

          Great update. If you could get the export times down that would be great. 8k RawLT 1:30 video takes about 12 minutes to export. The first time I used it the program crashed. Now it seems to be going good after a re-boot. @Fergus H 

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          w. ashleym4223359
          Participating Frequently
          January 17, 2025

          When I edit it in a 4k squence and 8k raw footage it takes less time to export. So maybe that is the way to do it. Thanks so much. @Fergus H is there any way you can add in noise removal in some future update? these raw files from canon are noisy and the 3rd party noise removal plugins massivly slow down the editing and exporting.

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          ghuff
          Inspiring
          January 17, 2025

          Does this mean that acceleration will not be available to us still on Intel-based macs? Will this update add sliders from the Cinema Raw Development app that are currently missing, such as setting ISO, NR, and Sharpness?

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          Adobe Employee
          MartieB
          Adobe Employee
          January 17, 2025

          Hi ghuff,
          This update was designed as a performance enhancement, so there are no new sliders added with this hardware acceleration feature. You are correct, this update is not intended for Intel-based Macintosh computers.
          Regards,
          Martie 

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