Hey,
As some of you may or may not know, Magic Lantern (3rd party software for Canon DSLRs) now support RAW video.
They store the information in .RAW files, which currently no software supports other than their own.
People have created software such as RAWMagic or raw2dng for conversion from the .RAW files to lots of .DNG files.
There is also a Premiere Pro plugin so that you can import .RAW files directly into Premiere, only problem being that you can't access the raw data.
I think we all can agree on how great Media Encoder is for chewing through a bunch of footage, supporting almost all codecs and formats out there.
So I thought, would it be possible to have Media Encoder:
1) Support the .RAW files that Magic Lantern creates
a) Launch Adobe Camera Raw, so that you can access all the raw data.
b) Edit the 1st frame from all the different sequences
c) Set framerate, format, codec ++
c) Press play and enjoy a cold coke.
If this is possible, it opens up for a way easier workflow than what currently is being offered.
You have to do everything through After Effects, the only program that supports the .DNG sequences.
If not, it would be great with support for the .DNG sequences.
So that you don't have to bring them into AE, make a composition for each shot, fixing the framerate because somehow AE always interprets the sequences as 30fps and not 23.976, adding to render queue, and so on. AE is not that batch friendly IMO.
What do you people think?
Is it worth implementing?