I have a BMPCC 4K camera that I used to film some timelapse videos on. One of them was a day to night shot. I was manually adjusting some settings like ISO to compensate. I have since used dedicated mirrorless photography cameras shooting RAW photo files to create better timelapses.

I would love to process that original older shots I did that is in BRAW format using LRTimelapse. In DaVinci Resolve you can export one frame at a time as a DNG. But that is a manual process. Not automatic. Meaning I would have to select a frame of video, export still as DNG. Advance to next frame, repeat, etc.

I see that Adobe Media Encoder supports BRAW as an input and can export as a 8bit, 16bit or 32bit TIFF image sequence.

I thought maybe I can convert it to TIFF then to DNG then I can process it in LRTimelapse.

Would it be advisable to use 16bit or 32bit in that process?

And has anyone every done this workflow at all?

This post was last modified: 2025-10-23, 22:07 by Gunther.

I can't tell you anything about that workflow. I doubt it will give good results, since when you convert to TIFF you'll already develop the raw files baking in, whitebalance etc.
I'd rather try to make a DNG sequence out of the camera video file (if that's possible somehow) - those DNGs will not have any previews usually, so LRTimelapse will have to develop them - but maybe that would work and then you could work on that DNG sequence with LRT (which might (!) still be kind of Raw).
In any case, this is a trial an error process.

I have looked everywhere on how I can convert a BRAW video file into a DNG sequence can I can't find any solutions. Only place was using DaVinci Resolve, which I use for editing anyways, but as I described earlier it would be literally exported each frame at a time manually.

I'm sorry. I think then you would best edit that sequence in Davinci Resolve. For future timelapses, shot Raw-Photos, then you can easily edit them in best quality with LRTimelapse.