Editing RAW video in premiere elements?

[russellsayshi]

Hello!

I'm looking for a low cost solution to grade and edit RAW video files on my MacBook Pro.
The only real video editing software I have now is FCPX and Apple Motion.
I tried Da Vinci Resolve Lite, but it kept crashing when I tried to edit the clips - weird.

I was looking at Creative Cloud for Premiere Pro, but that has no ACR support which is what I'm really after, but, oddly enough, Premiere Elements does.

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html

Does anyone know if I can use this and ACR to do simple edits to my RAW footage (white balance, highlight/shadow recovery, etc.)? I'm using RAWMagic to convert to CinemaDNG.

In case it matters, I have a Canon 50D (bought it last week for RAW video - thank you so much ML)!

Anyway, thank you so much and I hope I can get my workflow up and running .

[glubber]

Hi,

i run a PrE/PsE 10 bundle on a Win7 system, so i might help answering your question.

First of all: Yes PrE can do very basic DNG editing.....BUT
- Elements doesn't support all ACR function (f. i. no curves) nor can it really handle presets.
- I've read somewehere that the DNG-imagesequenze in PrE uses just the 8-bit embedded jpeg.
- When opening a DNG via ACR in PrE it just edits ONE DNG!
- PrE itsself doesn't have a usefull color-Editing like levels, graduationcurve, histogramm or waveform.

I don't know FCPX (as i'm a windows guy) but i guess it's waaaay better than PrE!

I recommend using a Lightroom/ NLE workflow like described in this posts:

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7212

or here:
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=6864.msg56645#msg56645


And Lightroom is just a few bucks more expensive than Premiere Elements.

[Metsadah]

Problem with that workflow is, it is painfully slow. I wish the pink cast issue will be fixed in premiere.