12/01/2026
Why did we make Color Finale Transcoder and why could it be of great help for you?
We’re a small group of people who shoot, edit, and occasionally disappear into Xcode when something in the workflow annoys us enough.
Transcoder 2 is very much that kind of project. It wasn’t born from a product plan. It came out of the same conversations you probably have with your own friends — the “why is this still so painful?” kind.
For most of us the pain point was the same: shooting raw is brilliant, but the moment you dump the cards is where the fun dips...
So we built a tool — something that lets us plug in a card, browse raw clips instantly, and sort out ISO, tint, temperature and all the usual mess before anything touches the timeline.
The app reads proper camera metadata so we’re not guessing, and once things look right we can either send the clips straight into Final Cut or make ProRes files.
With the native raw workflows we added for FCP, we suddenly realised we were transcoding far less. Being able to cut BRAW, N-RAW and Canon’s CRM directly on the timeline, with all the raw parameters exposed, made editing feel smoother and closer to how we work with stills.
No compound clips, no sidecars, no half-broken audio paths. Just one clip with everything inside it.
The Canon Log handling for CRM was also one of those “this should’ve always been here” fixes...
Read the full story: https://colorfinale.com/blog/post/cft-transcoder-in-2025-11-25
Get Transcoder at a special price till the end of January: https://colorfinale.com/transcoder?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=smm
Instantly preview and adjust settings of N-RAW, Blackmagic RAW, ARRIRAW and CinemaDNG media. Import results right into the Final Cut Pro timeline.
