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Let's see in this article how to use your own custom LUT (as .cube file) withBRAW Studio !Note : If you are not familiar with BRAW Studio yet, check ourintroduction article!The initial "Embedded LUT" optionWhen recording BRAW, you can apply some LUT directly from the Camera. By doingthis when recording, a LUT option will appear in the BRAW Settings during PostProduction : the "Apply LUT" checkbox.So the LUT you chose from the Camera is now inside the BRAW file and can beapplied or not when decoding the image.It means that the LUT is processed with the official Blackmagic RAW Decoder SDKdesigned by Blackmagic Design (which we are always using in BRAW Studio todecode your BRAW file), and should give you the best possible result !The "Sidecar LUT" optionThere is another way of applying a LUT through the BRAW engine, which is lessknown : it's from the sidecar file.The sidecar file is a file with the same filename than the BRAW file and locatednext to it, but instead of having the ".braw" extension, it has a ".sidecar"extension.The sidecar can contain some BRAW parameters (such as exposure, white balance,ISO, etc ..), but also can contain an entire LUT data.When this sidecar contains a LUT, a new option becomes available in the BRAWSettings : you can choose "Sidecar" in the "LUT Source" dropdown !The BRAW sidecar file has also a particularity : the BRAW parameters it containswill be used when choosing "Decode Using" -> "Camera Metadata", so the basiclook of your BRAW if you don't change anything.It means that if you change the BRAW Settings in Premiere Pro and export thesidecar, when looking at it in the BRAW Player, in Davinci Resolve or in AfterEffects, you will see the footage with the BRAW Settings changed in the sidecardirectly without doing anything.Apply your custom LUT directly to a Blackmagic RAW clip in Premiere ProFrom BRAW Studio 2.7.0, you can now put your own LUT into the sidecarautomatically with a tool we made in the BRAW Studio Panel in Premiere Pro !First, select a BRAW clip in the timeline or in the Project Panel, and

Click onthe "Add LUT to Sidecar" button in the BRAW Studio Panel.Then choose the Cube LUT file you want to apply in your computer.And .. Voilà ! it will be automatically applied to the BRAW file and you will beable to change this behavior with the "Apply LUT" checkbox and/or "LUT Source"dropdown.You can even do that for multiple BRAW files at once, if you first selectmultiple BRAW clips !Applying a LUT from BRAW VS from LumetriThe main reason to use BRAW Studio over Lumetri is to get the best quality fromyour LUT. Applying your LUT from Lumetri processes it on a 8 bpc BRAW file ifyou don't pay attention to your sequence settings.Having the LUT inside the BRAW Sidecar file instead of Lumetri also offersanother advantage : you will get this LUT applied wherever you are ! So if youare using this clip in After Effects, or in DaVinci Resolve, or even if you playthe footage in the BRAW Player, you will see the LUT applied on your footage.Apply your custom LUT outside of Premiere ProFrom BRAW Studio 3.0, with the BRAW Studio Desktop app you can add a custom LUTto the BRAW Sidecar, and so it is automatically applied in any software whichsupports BRAW files, so Premiere Pro but also DaVinci Resolve !See more details about the BRAW Studio Desktop app and its featureshere!What do you think of this feature ? Will you apply your LUT with the BRAW StudioPanel now ? Send us feedback !

List in Premiere Pro Properties, Panel Metadata Tab and Desktop Metadata TabFixed : In Windows 11 a terminal was displayed under Desktop windowsAfter Effects: Fixed Crash when using Layer Settings on some BRAW files with GPU decodingDesktop : Filename is now displayed above VideoAdobe Importer stability improvementsAdobe Importer : Fixed frame never displayed with red error in Premiere Pro or Rendering issues when some special effects were applied on a BRAW clip, like Stabilizer effectPremiere Pro Panel : when using the "Select All in Project" or "Select All in Sequence" button, it was sometimes impossible to change params because of selection limit. Note: the limit set to 100 clips is still used for manual selection only.Importer : Black Frames and Cache issuesSource Settings : BRAW Settings could be reset to old values in particular circumstances when using the "Switch A/B" buttonBlack Frames on .braw recorded through Video Assist on some Cameras like Panasonic ones, Highlight Recovery cannot be modified (Read Only) and it was involving some errorsWhite Balance Picker Tool (from plugins and PrPro Panel) : computed WB was wrong due to the picked pixel location being wrongly interpretedText numbers on the right of sliders impossible to modify in DesktopCrash issue when launching Desktop Application in some particular circumstancesWindows : BRAW_Studio.exe was asking for some uninstalled DLLs, now fixed. The BRAW Studio Panel was also unable to behave correctly because of this, now fixed toomacOS : BRAW_Studio.app was never launching (infinitely loading) in some very particular circumstancesNew BRAW Studio Desktop App (Player & Color Grader) :Player : BRAW Studio now includes a Windows / macOS native desktop application which can play your .BRAW Files but also modify the BRAW Settings just like with the Source Settings and Layer Settings !Update Sidecar : after changing BRAW Settings in the BRAW Studio App, export them to the sidecar : so this new color grade should automatically be loaded whatever the app you choose to import your BRAW file then (Camera Metadata workflow)Lossless Trimming tool : import your BRAW file, set In / Out time points and export a new smaller BRAW file with the exact same quality and metadata than the original ! Only unused video frames and unused audio samples are properly removedInclude Custom LUT in .Sidecar : you can choose to use a custom .cube LUT and attach it to your BRAW file through the .sidecar file. The LUT will be processed with the BRAW SDK and gives you the best quality !Metadata Viewer : a special Metadata Tab with all your BRAW Metadata !Windows : it replaces the Blackmagic RAW Player from BMD as default BRAW App Opener and also generates itself the BRAW Thumbnails in Explorer, so the

Our article about it AVAILABLE RES NEEDS TO BE INCREASED !" issue, happening when a .BRAW file was imported multiple timesThe current panel selection could be wrong when last selection was made during panel processingConflicts issues when BRAW Studio Panel and PlumePack Panel (our other Autokroma product) were both opened at the same time"Fix Selection" button behavior in panel while switching between Source Settings and Metadata tabsPrPro Cache Rendered Previews : green line turned back to red sometimes since version 2.4.0. Now fixed but you will need to render them again once after updatingAfter Effects Layer Settings GPU decoding : artifacts could be visible at the bottom of big resolution frames (6K and more)Preset and Sidecar loading / saving issues when the latest Gamut ("DaVinci Wide Gamut") and latest Gamma ("DaVinci Intermediate") were selectedConvert BMD PrPro Panel : issue when a .BRAW file was offline and missing in the projectSupport for new cameras URSA Mini Pro 12K and BMPCC 6K Pro cameras, latest Camera Firmware (e.g. v6.9.4+ on URSA Mini Pro G1 and G2) and Nikon Z 6II / Z 7II .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video AssistSupport for Dual Card Recording, it will produce a separate .braw2 file with half of the frames. If this file is missing the imported main .braw file will only report half the framerate you recordedNew Param in BRAW Settings : "Use Gamut Compression" checkbox will protect your extreme highlights, in the PrPro Panel it is next to the Color Space (Gamut) choice. WARNING : this Param is in BETA ! Do not use if not really needed, until BRAW 2.1 is out and BRAW Studio updated. Disable this if automatically enabled.New Color Spaces (Gamuts) : Alexa Wide Gamut, DaVinci Wide GamutNew Gammas : Log C, DaVinci IntermediateNote 1 : URSA 12K frames are huge, in PrPro we recommend using Playback and Paused Resolution at 1/4, in AEfx please use our Layer Settings with GPU acceleration (Metal / CUDA / OpenCL) enabled in the SettingsNote 2 : for all recent .BRAW (URSA 12K, BMPCC 6K Pro, recent firmware), Camera Metadata default values are Color Science at V5 and "Use Gamut Compression" enabled. We recommend turning off the latter, unless you really need it..sidecar and .braw2 (from Dual Card recording) files will be copied when using AEfx "Collect Files" and PrPro "Collect and Copy" from the Project Manager, on PrPro only for filepath with Latin-1 characters. If you have an issue please contact us ! : because of BRAW 2.0 the minimum version is now 10.14 MojavePrPro Panel "Trim BRAW" button in the Source Settings Tab : you can now trim a selected .BRAW file, creating a new file without unused frames while keeping the

Since version 2.7.2 only, now fixedFixed an error which could happen while loading a custom LUT through SidecarFixed a Red Error popup when exiting Premiere ProNew Buttons "Select All in Project" and "Select All in Sequence" to select all .BRAW Clips respectively in the project or only inside the current sequence. This will help you do numerous batch tasks, such as updating / loading all sidecars files, generating all the Merged Clips info once (saved popup bug) and not later, initializing all the .BRAW clips Source Settings info in case you have lots of .BRAW and you want to avoid BRAW Studio Panel to initialize them later on etc.. Another practical use of this is to batch change Source Settings, for example now you are able to make exports with two different .BRAW color grade with only a few clicks, by storing the first color grade inside Custom A and the second Color Grade inside Custom BPrev And Next buttons are not disabled anymore when no clip is selected. They now select the first or last clip in the timeline in that caseFixed : a .BRAW setting changed during the processing of another setting change is now reverted in the UI while the first change is processed (happens especially when a lot of .BRAW files are selected and graded)Fixed errors with unicode filepathsSupport for Leica SL2-S .BRAW clips captured by Blackmagic Video AssistImprovement : when a Merged Clip is selected, the project was auto-saved once per Premiere Pro session. Now it has been improved and the auto-saved happens only once per project. So once you got the auto-save popup for a Merged Clip, you will not get it anymore for this .BRAW ProjectItemFixed : when saving Sidecar in Multiple Selection mode, there was only one sidecar updated, now all of them are properly updatedFixed : Project Conversion from BMD plugin to BRAW Studio (in the PrPro Panel Toolbox) could be blocked and was never finishing if the Source Settings effect was absentBRAW Studio now has a FREE version ! Share easily your BRAW Studio projects with coworkers, they won't need a paid BRAW Studio license to open the project. There is no 500 frames trial image anymore. More information about which feature is free or with a Premium license on our website here : Features in PrPro Panel :New "Add LUT to Sidecar" button to load your custom .Cube LUT file into the .sidecar file for one or even multiple selected .BRAW Files, so that the LUT will be loaded and processed through the official BRAW SDKNew "Export Embedded LUT" button to export the Embedded LUT to a .Cube file, useful to apply in another color grading softwareOn each line

Update September 2020 : Blackmagic fixed this bug in their BRAW APIversion 1.8.1 onwards. Don't forget to update BRAW Studio with this latest bugfix !Note : If you are not familiar with BRAW Studio yet, check ourintroduction article !What's the bug ?The Blackmagic RAW SDK (BRAW API) version 1.7 that was published March 7 2020contains a bug on Windows. Here are two threads on Blackmagic forums discussingthis issue and official acknowledgement of the bug :Blackmagic RAW SDK: OpenClip file permissions RAW Player : no thumbnails on Windows anymore BRAW Studio is using the official API from Blackmagic it suffers from thesame issues, the bug comes from Blackmagic not Autokroma.How is this going to affect my workflow ?Here are three issues that will pop up while using Blackmagic RAW and BRAWStudio with Adobe applications :No thumbnails on Windows Explorer of your .BRAW files. The Blackmagic RAWPlayer icon will be displayed instead. Thumbnails that were generatedpreviously and still in your Thumbnail cache will still be displayed !Some files cannot be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder and AfterEffects; both using BRAW Studio or using the Blackmagic Premiere Pro pluginIn After Effects when using our BRAW Studio Layer Settings effect on a .BRAWlayer you will get the message "file X.braw couldn't be open for reading" aswell as "Unable to open file X.braw. If the file is opened in anotherapplication, closing it may solve the problem."What can I do ?Blackmagic hasn't officially released an update to fix this bug, nor hasspecified any date when an update will be released. We've noticed this issueback in the beginning of May 2020 and waited for an updated since then.If those issues are affecting your workflow, please contact Blackmagic about itor open a new thread on their forums !If you only need the thumbnails in Windows Explorer you could try to install aprevious version of Blackmagic RAW SDK, for example version 1.6.1,