Adobe Claims Nikon N-RAW Is Coming to Premiere Pro Later This Year

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by Francesco AndreolaFebruary 28^th, 2025

Adobe has recently confirmed that, after pausing their work on adding N-RAW support to their video products last year, they are finally resuming development. Support for Nikon’s RAW video format should become available for Adobe users later this year.

Based on intoPix’s TicoRAW, Nikon’s compressed RAW format first made its debut in the Nikon Z 9 with firmware V2.0 and later found its way into the Z 8 and Z6 III (which, by the way, just got a major firmware update). Overall, N-RAW has proven to be a pretty flexible format but currently suffers from one major limitation. Indeed, at the moment, the only non-linear editing software that supports it is DaVinci Resolve and Edius.

In truth, the Adobe team had already been working on integrating N-RAW support into their video products, but shortly after Nikon acquired RED, they oddly halted the development. Now, they’ve reversed that decision. Let’s take a look!

Nikon N-RAW – coming to Adobe software later this year?

Just a few weeks ago, RED included full support for Nikon N-RAW in the latest release of REDCINE-X Pro (Beta), thus allowing Nikon users to process their N-RAW clips using RED’s IPP2 (Image Processing Pipeline 2) workflow chain.

At the same time, RED updated their SDK (Software Development Kit) to include support for N-RAW. So, technically, this means that any third-party developer could now integrate N-RAW processing into their software, including – but not limited to – Adobe.

As a result, Adobe engineers picked up right where they left off, as confirmed by Fergus Hammond, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Audio & Video, in this thread:

Hi all,
I have good news for people following this thread: we have restarted work on adding Nikon N-RAW support to our video products. We expect to release N-RAW support later this year. 

For the curious, N-RAW support is coming via an update to RED’s SDK. Adobe has worked closely with RED for many years to support RED’s R3D format, so we are delighted that the purchase of RED by Nikon has resulted in N-RAW support being added to the RED SDK.

As soon as N-RAW support is available in public beta, I will update this post. 

Fergus Hammond, Principal Product Manager for Adobe Audio & Video

For more information, please visit the original thread here.

Have you ever tried shooting in Nikon N-RAW? Do you use Adobe Premiere Pro for your video editing needs? If so, are these Adobe updates relevant to you? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below!