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December 22, 2021
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Import Adobe DNG to premiere pro

  • December 22, 2021
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I shot a series of timelapse raw pictures and converted them to DNG files using Adobe DNG converter.

 

The exported dngs can be imported to Davinci Resolve for editing but Adobe's very own Premiere Pro 2022 can't recognize them or import them. Is there any luck I can import these raw files to PR?

 

I attached one photo as example if any one want to test it out in PR or Davinci.

 

patch 1: It looks like the converted DNG is not DNG enough to be recognized....

 

 

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Correct answer R Neil Haugen

Premiere has never actually worked with DNG files, those were a photoshop "stills" thing as far as  the Adobe video people were concerned.

 

So if you have DNG still images, you need to export them from Lightroom or Photoshop as jpgs, tiffs, or png files.

 

Neil

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Richard van den Boogaard
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2021

PSD files are natively supported in PPro, so if you export them as PSDs (consider doing this as a macro inside Photoshop), you should be good to go.

Participant
January 5, 2022

Thanks for the hint! I would rather stay with Davinci for such senario... 

R Neil Haugen
R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
Legend
December 22, 2021

Premiere has never actually worked with DNG files, those were a photoshop "stills" thing as far as  the Adobe video people were concerned.

 

So if you have DNG still images, you need to export them from Lightroom or Photoshop as jpgs, tiffs, or png files.

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
December 27, 2021

Thanks for your reply.

 

I was thinking the same thing. However, it is still annoying that Adobe does not support its own files...

R Neil Haugen
Legend
December 27, 2021

The "stills" and "digital video apps' or DVA sections are very different operations. They don't share any locations, space, or members. Adobe is a world-wide massive company, with the headquarters for variuos apps spread around quite a bit. And the developers often don't even live near the 'office' they are attached to.

 

So it's not like they can go down the hall to talk, or even to the next floor.

 

Then there is the other major issue between them: the color science is completely different, as what you can do when you're processing one image at a time versus thousands within a few minutes are HUGE.

 

Neil

 

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...