OCTOPUS RAW Studio

User Guide

To install OCTOPUS RAW Studio, launch the appropriate (.pkg for macOS or .msi for Windows) installer for your OS. The installer will automatically copy the RAW Studio plugin components into the appropriate folder for your host NLE application.

Default installation paths for Adobe Premiere Pro:
macOS /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/7.0/MediaCore/
Windows C:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-Ins\7.0\MediaCore\

Basic Workflow (Premiere Pro)

After installation, OCTOPUS RAW Studio’s unified RAW processing pipeline will be active by default for any supported footage imported into Adobe Premiere Pro (see supported codecs). Footage can be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro in several ways:

By dragging media onto the Project panel or Timeline area.
Via the File > Import menus.
Browsing to the media location with the Media Browser panel.

Note
For sequence-based formats such as CinemaDNG, it is recommended to drag the first frame of the sequence—OCTOPUS RAW Studio will automatically import all the sequence’s frames.

Once supported media is imported, the OCTOPUS RAW Studio panel can be found in the Effect Controls panel Source tab for the clip—the clip must be selected in the Timeline or Project panel. If the Effect Controls panel is not present, it can be accessed from the Window > Effect Controls menu.

The OCTOPUS RAW Studio panel can then be used to manipulate RAW processing parameters for all instances of the clip. Each RAW pipeline stage can be customised by changing the Using parameter from As Shot to Custom.

License Activation

Once the OCTOPUS RAW Studio panel is visible, your license can be activated by clicking the Register… button at the top of the panel.

License information is saved to the following path:
macOS /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/OCTOPUSCINEMA/OCTOPUS RAW Studio/licence
Windows C:\Users\[user]\OCTOPUSCINEMA\OCTOPUS RAW Studio\licence

To deactivate your license, simply delete the appropriate license file for your OS.

Supported Host Applications

OCTOPUS RAW Studio currently supports the following host NLE applications:

Adobe Premiere Pro 2024
Adobe Premiere Pro 2025

Earlier versions of Premiere Pro may work but have not been thoroughly tested - please evaluate the trial before purchasing a license.

System Requirements

Your computer must meet the following technical specifications to run OCTOPUS RAW Studio.

Windows

Processor	Intel® 6th Generation or newer CPU – or AMD Ryzen™ 1000 Series or newer CPU
OS	Windows 10 (64-bit) V22H2 or later
Memory	8 GB of RAM
GPU	OpenCL 1.2 or NVIDIA CUDA 11.8 compliant

macOS

Processor	Intel® 6th Generation or newer CPU – or Apple silicon M1 or newer
OS	macOS Monterey (version 12) or later
Memory	8 GB of RAM
GPU	Apple Metal compliant

Supported RAW formats

OCTOPUS RAW Studio currently supports the following RAW formats.

Apple ProRes RAW .mov	Apple ProRes RAW Apple ProRes RAW HQ
CinemaDNG .dng	Uncompressed Lossless compressed Lossy compressed Bayer and monochrome

Color Science

RAW Parameters

Configurable color science parameters are exposed through the OCTOPUS RAW Studio panel user interface. Each stage of the RAW processing pipeline is represented by a sub-section of the interface: Detail, Exposure, Tone, Color, Transfer and Tools. The Using parameter for each region allows switching between default As Shot camera metadata or Custom clip specific settings.

Detail

Highlight Recovery is our best-in-class proprietary algorithm to maximise usable dynamic range where highlight data is partially clipped (i.e. 1 or 2 channels of the image is clipped).

Supported color spaces

Rec.709
Rec.2020
ARRI Alexa Wide Gamut
RED Wide Gamut
Blackmagic Wide Gamut
Sony S-Gamut3.Cine
Canon Cinema Gamut
DJI D-Gamut
Panasonic V-Gamut
ACES AP1

Supported transfer & gamma spaces

Rec.709
Rec.2020 HLG
sRGB
ARRI LogC3
RED Log3G10
Blackmagic Film Gen. 5
Sony S-Log3
Canon C-Log2
DJI D-Log
Panasonic V-Log
Nikon N-Log
ACEScct

Built-in LUTs

ARRI LogC3 to Rec. 709
RED Log3G10 to Rec. 709
Blackmagic Film Gen. 5 to Rec. 709
Sony S-Log3 (S-Gamut3.Cine) to Rec. 709
Canon Log 2 to Rec. 709
DJI D-Log to Rec. 709
Panasonic V-Log to Rec. 709
Nikon N-Log to Rec. 709
ACEScct (AP1) to Rec. 709