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Resolve wont do any chromatic aberration fixing to cDNG's like ACR etc will. I see CA with BMCC DNG's as well. You need to fix it yourself in resolve.

I know, that's why it needs to be fixed in the conversion

Personally I would choose a BMCC any day over the 5D if the workflow means going into manual RAW processing, then converting to CDNG to get into resolve and then edit then back for grading. It just isn't worth the time spent fixing. It might work for commercial stuff, but for documentary there's just too much material to process.

I see a lot of people saying they want to be able to grade in Resolve with CinemaDNG, and I understand it'd be more convenient that way, but are you losing any data when you grade with converted TIFF files from ACR?

I wouldn't say you loose that much data, it's negligible, you would loose all the benefits of not having processed the image though. Everything from white balance, noise reduction, sharpening would bring out more artefacts etc. But it would probably very subtle.

The biggest reason though is workflow, TIFF is at least 3 times as much space on your hard drive from a RAW file. If in 16 bit probably even more.

There's no way I would think that's a sustainable solution, even though at the moment TIFF is the safest workflow since it's reliable in conversion from the RAW file. Which the CinemaDNG isn't yet, but it will be!

(*) timecode. hmm. could you post a xml-file in pastebin? just to see, what strange data there are? (i am win-user, so i have no fcpx)

I'll try to post both a xml with video that works with timecode and one of the broken ones tomorrow. Thanks for the great development!

Hi everyone, fantastic work so far, big up.

I've had some time to experiment with the firmware, trying to find a workflow that works for FCPX and Resolve. raw2cdng is great but will be amazing when there's a batch version and hopefully mac also

Anyway, for me workflow is the thing that will decide if I'll be able to use the firmware or not, and now raw2cdng is getting close! Was trying all kinds of ways to get a cdng before but it was painful.

So now when I used raw2cdng all was good getting into Resolve, but then the issues started. First take a look at the video:

So a couple of things.

- There's a lot of what I would say is chromatic aberation. Pinkish especially in the trees. This could be a white balance thing combined with the sunset highligt, bit my best guess is that something either happened in the RAW recording or the raw2cdng conversion. Anyone with the same issues?

- Then the workflow. One word: painful. I think the timecode is breaking the connection with resolve, because there wasn't a way to get it to automatically connect to the old files. It has done in my previous tests but they were much smaller and without raw2cdng. So maybe something has gone missing in the raw2cdng conversion? All is ok until the XML is going back to Resolve from FCPX.

Any thoughts on the issues?

And keep up the fantastic work!