HELP: BRAW Studio Filter Offline

[Richard29334386k4o7]

I have been using Black Magic's Braw plugin for some time, but after a recent uninstall/reinstall of the plugin, I am receiving this error: 

I am using Premiere 24.0.3 and Braw Player 3.4.

I am not interested in using Autokroma, as it has been responsible for several crashes mid-project. 

Any idea?

Thank you!!

[R Neil Haugen]

Interesting. As pesonally, I had constant issues with the BM one ... among them, every few days, I got this, and had to uninstall, reboot, reinstall.

I've not had a single issue with the Autokroma one. Curious what the problems were! And did you work with Nicholas and Autokroma on those issues, curious about your experience with their help.

[Richard29334386k4o7]

That's what I've heard, which is why I originally switched over to the AutoKroma plugin a few months ago. With the recent update in Premiere, Autokroma seemed to have some problems. I had been toying around with different settings in the meta data and upon switching one of the values (I fail to remember which), Premiere crashed.

I hadn't had any issues with the BM plugin so I reverted back. Then this problem. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Did you talk to Nicholas or anyone at Autokroma? They even support the BM freebie in Premiere better than BM does.

[Richard29334386k4o7]

I did not, if I opt to use that plugin in the future, I most certainly will. 

Personally, the setting that I need are most easily accessed in the BM version. It was just the crashing that put me in a position to just switch back. ( its quite a process with work computers, admin permissions and such.)

[R Neil Haugen]

Yeah, kind of a pain. Still, the Autokroma site has the best papers on using the BM plugin and issues that may happen, last I looked early in the summer. Might check there.

[Richard29334386k4o7 · Accepted solution]

Just a note for anyone else with this issue in the future -

I opened up Premiere Beta and the plug-in works there, so I'm using that for now.

[Nicolas from Autokroma · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Sorry I'm a bit late on this one, but in case it happens again:

First we fixed some crashes which happened in BRAW Studio 3.1.4. The crashes you experienced should be fixed now. 

The "Source Settings" is an effect attached to a RAW kind of plugin, to apply parameters (like White balance, exposure, etc..) when decoding the footage. So like R3DRAW has its R3D Source Settings, BRAW needs also a Source Settings effect on it, and is automatically added to an imported clip. 

As mentioned in other comments, there are 2 different plugins to import BRAW files in Premiere Pro : the Blackmagic RAW plugin and BRAW Studio (article with differences here). When you start a project with one plugin, your imported BRAW Project Items will have a "Source Settings" effect attached to it. As each plugin has its own effect, if you switch plugins at the middle of a project, there will be issues because of this "Source Settings" effect which can't be converted automatically by Premiere Pro. That's why we implemented 2 tools in the BRAW Studio panel to convert your project from one plugin to another in both ways.

Blackmagic RAW Plugin -> Autokroma BRAW Studio Plugin

• Install BRAW Studio and say "Yes" when it asks if you want to uninstall the Blackmagic RAW Plugin. 
• Open an empty project, open the BRAW Studio Panel (top menu -> window -> extensions)
• Go to the Toolbox Tab and convert your project by using the "Convert Project from BMD to BRAW Studio" tool

Autokroma BRAW Studio Plugin -> Blackmagic RAW Plugin

• Let BRAW Studio installed, and open the BRAW Studio Panel (top menu -> window -> extensions)
• Go to the Toolbox Tab and convert your project by using the "Convert Project from BRAW Studio to BMD" tool
• Uninstall BRAW Studio (uninstaller can be found in the folder when downloading BRAW Studio)
• Install the Blackmagic RAW Plugin

Best,

Nicolas from Autokroma

[R Neil Haugen]

As always, thanks for the useful and detailed information, Nicolas. We ever meet in person, I wanna buy you a beer or something!

[Nicolas from Autokroma]

Haha thanks Neil ! I would buy you one too for sure ! 🙂