Request for Native BRAW Support in Final Cut Pro

Chris Hocking, developer of BRAW Toolbox, posted this from Sept - Nov 2025:

"The MediaExtension Framework provides a means for developers to create format readers, video decoders, and RAW processors for media that the system doesn’t natively support."

"Now that Apple has a Media Extension in the wild of their own - it's really only a matter of time until Blackmagic finally releases their Media Extension for Blackmagic RAW - as announced at last year's Final Cut Pro Creative Summit."

"We currently don't know when Blackmagic will release their Media Extension...However, now that Blackmagic have access to Media Extensions, they'll be able to do things far better than what I could do with BRAW Toolbox in terms of performance, due to the fact that I was basically "tricking" Final Cut Pro into using an "effect" to draw BRAW frames.

"Until then though, BRAW Toolbox still remains the best way to access BRAW directly/natively in Final Cut Pro."

It's actually up to Blackmagic Design. To add their codec to FCP they just need to build what amounts to a sort of plug-in they can have you download and install. That's how FCP was originally made, so third parties could make their own codecs compatible with FCP.

Apple has a great relationship with BMD, don't ever doubt that. They do many projects together all the time. Why BRAW is no supported in FCP can only be a BMD issues. I see no reason (or method) for Apple to "block" it from FCP.

The fact that Apple has no issue with us discussing it here, and BMD deletes posts asking about it, I think says a lot about who's court the ball has always been in.

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The best you or any of us can do is make your voice heard by providing feedback.

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