What is a .BRAW file?
BRAW is Blackmagic RAW cinema footage. Created by Blackmagic Design cameras.
- Did you know
- Blackmagic RAW launched in 2018 as an efficient raw codec for Blackmagic cinema cameras.
- Blackmagic RAW does part of the demosaic inside the camera, which shrinks the files and makes them far faster to decode than fully raw footage.
- The codec is heavily multi-threaded and GPU-accelerated, with support for Apple Metal, CUDA and OpenCL.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify camera RAW edit sidecars - Apple Photos adjustments (AAE), RawTherapee (PP3), Capture One (COS), DxO PhotoLab (DOP) and Nikon NX Studio (NKSC) - reading the applied-edit recipe, plus cinema and rare camera RAW: REDCODE (R3D), Blackmagic (BRAW), Canon Cinema RAW Light (CRM), ARRIRAW (ARI), Phantom CINE and FLIR thermal (FPF).
- Depth of analysis
- .BRAW is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .BRAW file
- Drag a .BRAW file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.