Adobe has recently confirmed that, after pausing their work on adding N-RAW support to their video products last year, they are finally resuming development. Support for Nikon’s RAW video format should become available for Adobe users later this year. Based on intoPix’s TicoRAW, Nikon’s compressed RAW format first made its debut in the Nikon Z 9 with firmware V2.0 and later found its way into the Z 8 and Z6 III (which, by the way, just got a major firmware update). Overall, N-RAW has proven to be a pretty flexible format but currently suffers from one major limitation. Indeed, at the moment, the only non-linear editing software that supports it is DaVinci Resolve and Edius.In truth, the Adobe team had already been working on integrating N-RAW support into their video products, but shortly after Nikon acquired RED, they oddly halted the development. Now, they’ve reversed that decision. Let’s take a look! Adobe pauses work on Nikon N-RAW support (March 2024). Source: Adobe Community Nikon N-RAW – coming to Adobe software later this year? Just a few weeks ago, RED included full support for Nikon N-RAW in the latest release of REDCINE-X Pro (Beta), thus allowing Nikon users to process their N-RAW clips using RED’s IPP2 (Image Processing Pipeline 2) workflow chain. The N-RAW-capable Nikon Z 9. Image credit: CineD At the same time, RED updated their SDK (Software Development Kit) to include support for N-RAW. So, technically, this means that any third-party developer could now integrate N-RAW processing into their software,...
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