Treasured's Movie Repair Guide -- Canon RAW Light


Canon RAW Light is a RAW digital cinematography format, unveiled by Canon in 2017 on new C200 camera.

This video codec intends to provide the flexibility of a RAW format in terms of color grading and dynamic range, while keeping storage and transfer demands reasonable.
Compared to Canon Cinema RAW codec introduced in 2013 on then flagship C500 camera, the new RAW Light format addresses the issues that have prevented its successor from taking off:



Detection

Treasured can detect Canon RAW Light footage in corrupted files since version 4.4, and also in cards and in hard disks.
Treasured has a built-in preview function, and shows Canon RAW Light thumbnails that help identify the content of the corrupted media..


Canon Cinema C200, first camera to record in Canon RAW Light format

All flavours of Canon RAW Light (12bit and 10bit), and all resolutions are supported.

Failure modes

The causes of failure reported by Canon RAW Light users are:

Repairability and Pricing

Corrupted Canon RAW Light media can usually be repaired without major problem.

Huge CRM files (hundreds of GB) are not a problem for Treasured and our remote repair system, since only around 200 MB of data need to be sent via Internet. With a small sample, we can figure out the repair technique and send the repair program to the customer.

Aero Quartet engineers develop a Repair Kit with the following features:

Canon RAW Light repairs are only available through our 4K and Cinema plans.

Bitstream Analysis

Little is known about the internals of Canon RAW Light encoding. Although Canon provides a SDK to developers, the codec remains proprietary.

Free Preview of corrupt Canon RAW Light videos with: