SonyRAW Format Settings - Import

Metadata Settings

Tape Name box

Select an option to determine how the tape name is set when importing clips.

Select:	To:
Enter Tape Name	Activate the Tape Name field where you enter the tape name. When selecting multiple files for import, this tape name is used for all imported files.
Tape Name from File Name	Use the name of the imported file as the tape name.
Tape Name from Directory	Determine the tape name from the detected directory structure. Use the Level field below to configure the relative path to the directory from which the tape name can be determined.
Tape Name from Header	Read the tape name from the header of the imported file.

Level field

Set from which directory the tape name is taken, relative to the location of the clip in the directory structure.

Although available for all types of files, the Level field is intended for directory structures output by film scanners. A typical image file directory structure looks like this: ./<tape>/<resolution>/clip.######. In this case, selecting Levels Up 2 in the Level field identifies the directory that corresponds to the tape name (./<tape>). Enabled if Tape Name is set to Tape From Directory.

Tape Name field

Enter the name to use as tape name when importing the clip. Enabled if Tape Name is set to Enter Tape Name.

Orientation box

Flip (vertical) or flop (horizontal) the media when importing the clip. Camera uses the orientation defined on the camera during the shoot. Disable Flip to use the true orientation of the image, as it was shot.

Clip Settings

Clip Name box

Select how the clip is named when the file is imported.

Select:	To:
Enter Clip Name	Activate the Clip Name field so that you can manually enter the clip name. When selecting multiple files for import, this name is used for all imported files.
Clip Name from File Name	Use the name of the imported file as the clip name.

Resolution Settings

Debayering box

Select the resolution at which the media is imported. Higher resolutions require more processing and impact real-time playback. Other resolutions offer better performance at the cost of lower image resolution.

You cannot use a debayering setting higher than native resolution of the camera. Using a higher setting prevents the media from being displayed, with an error message in the Preview panel (Cannot initiliaze codec). Try lowering the debayering setting until the media debayers correctly.

QFHD (Quad-Full High Definition) is Sony's term for 3480x2160 UHD resolution, often times referred to as 4K HDTV, or 4K UHD. UHDTV (Ultra High Definition Television) is the 7680x4320 resolution, or 8K UHD.

Debayering options have been renamed to reflect what is used in other applications. The table below highlights the changes.

Debayering option	Resolution
0.25K	256x135
0.5K	512x270
1K	1024x540
HD (1920x1080)	1920x1080
2K	2048x1080
QFHD (3840)	3840x2160
4K	4096x2160
6K	6144x3240
UHDTV (7680)	7680x4320
8K	8192x4320

Quality box

Select one of two qualities for the decoding of SonyRAW footage. While debayering resolution result in lower resolution clips, Quality affects the quality of the fully debayered pixels. Depending on your system configuration, Standard provides better decoding performance at the cost of lower image quality compared to High quality. The actual image degradation depends on the footage being decoded, but because of the Bayer pattern, expect to see differences in the red and blue channels.

The Quality box is only available to the following Debayering settings: HD, 2K, and 4K.

Colour Settings

Colour Encoding box

Select the colour space of SonyRAW media. Select Raw to disable this transformation and work with the raw media. All other settings implicitly convert the 16-bit RAW media to 16-bit half-float. If you select the Raw option, you can always apply a colour transform later from the General tab, using one of the SonyRAW colour transforms available incamera/Sony.

The list displays the newer options on top (ACES), legacy ones at the bottom (starting with ACES(tungsten)). These legacy options are included to provide compatibility with previously imported media. See Choosing a Working Color Space and Applying Colour Management to Clips.

Note: Some of the colour space options—Scene-linear / Rec709 - legacy, ACES (daylight), ACES (tungsten)—were updated in Flame 2013 20th Anniversary Edition Extension 2 SP3 and Smoke 2013 Extension 1, to solve an issue with black levels. This impacts SonyRAW media imported before the update: the black levels will not match SonyRAW media imported after the update. You can fix these old clips by viewing them on the Timeline, and in the Format Options Editor, select Basic > Colour, and then re-apply the required colour space.