Blackmagic RAW is the world’s only truly modern, high performance, professional RAW codec that is open, cross platform and free. The codec is supported via the free SDK on Mac OS, Windows and Linux systems. Best of all, there are no hidden licenses or ongoing fees. Blackmagic RAW has been designed to provide the industry with an open, elegant and standardized high quality image format that can be used across products and in customer workflows absolutely free!
Blackmagic RAW Player
Speed Test App
Speed Test Manual
Adobe Plugin
Avid Plugin
SDK
SDK Manual
SDK Changelog
Code Samples
Fixed RAW Player playback on some Windows ARM systems.
Improved SDK stability with simultaneous decodes.
Other supported applications include: Alteon Transcoder by Alteon.io, SynthEyes by Andersson Technologies LLC, Scratch by Assimilate, Flare by Autodesk, Flame by Autodesk, Flame Assist by Autodesk, Lustre by, Autodesk, BRAW Studio by Autokroma , On-Set Dailies by Colorfront, Lightworks by Editshare, Baselight by FilmLight, Nuke Studio/Hiero by The Foundry, Edius by Grass Valley, Gyroflow by Gyroflow, EditReady by Hedge, ShotPut Pro by Imagine Products, ProVu by Imagine Products, PrimeTranscoder by Imagine Products , BRAW Toolbox by LateNite Films, Kyno by Lesspain Software, NeoFinder 8 by Norbert M. Doerner, Silverstack by Pomfort, Mistika by SGO, Vegas Pro 19+ by Sony, YoYotta Transcode by YoYotta, Screen by Video Village.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that you can use to test the speed of decoding full resolution Blackmagic RAW frames on your system. Multiple CPU cores and GPUs are automatically detected and used during the test so that you get accurate and realistic results. Simply select Blackmagic RAW constant bitrate 3:1, 5:1, 8:1 or 12:1 and the desired resolution to perform the test. Although Blackmagic RAW Speed Test will run multiple resolution and frame rate tests on your system, you can also select a specific test resolution to run on the main meters and the test will continue to run constantly, allowing stress testing of host computers.
The .braw SDK is fully documented and publicly available for all developers on Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Using the SDK gives you access to GPU accelerated and CPU optimized algorithms for decoding Blackmagic RAW files. In addition to the encoded image data, the SDK also provides access to unique information about the camera’s imaging sensor so you know how to accurately decode and present the image based on the characteristics of the sensor. The SDK supports 32‑bit float, 16‑bit integer and 8‑bit integer pixel formats, manages the decoding of color science, allows for user customizable color space transformation, and provides access to all embedded and sidecar metadata.