CinemaDNG

CinemaDNG is a camera raw codec originally developed by Adobe. It is considered an open standard, because Adobe turned over control and support of the format to a community of CinemaDNG partners. The format was developed as a still image format based on TIFF and is not based on specific, proprietary sensor designs.

Motion files may be stored within an MXF package as a picture track or as an image sequence. CinemaDNG files may be compressed or uncompressed. These image sequences are sequentially numbered .dng files and contained within a folder for each shot. CinemaDNG is commonly used as a format with drone cameras and was also used by Blackmagic Design before they developed Blackmagic RAW. CinemaDNG is the only camera raw format that can be batch-processed using various still image and photography applications, such as Adobe Lightroom. Color Finale Transcoder currently supports individual .dng files and .dng image sequences, but not the .mxf format.