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Updated: August 23, 2010

These release notes document known issues related to the prerelease versions of the Adobe® CinemaDNG Importer for Adobe After Effects® CS5 and Adobe Premiere® Pro CS5. This is the second prerelease of the CinemaDNG Importer for CS5 and is labeled as version 1.5.2.

• Overview
• System Requirements
• Installation and Setup

Overview

The CinemaDNG Importer plug-in adds support to After Effects CS5 and Premiere Pro CS5 for reading CinemaDNG video streams in the form of MXF files and DNG file sequences. Version 1.5.2 fixes an issue that prevented the plug-in from running when a file’s name had an uppercase extension.

Installation instructions are detailed below.

System Requirements

The minimum system requirements for the CinemaDNG Importer for CS5 are:

• After Effects CS5, Premiere Pro CS5, or both on Mac OS and Windows.
• Same hardware requirements as that of After Effects CS5 or Premiere Pro CS5.
• Camera Raw 6.1 or later (a standalone installer for Macintosh and Windows is available).

Installation and Setup

Install the CinemaDNG for CS5 Importer on Windows

1. Download the CinemaDNG Importer ZIP file
2. Unzip the package and navigate to the unzipped location.
3. Copy the file CinemaDNG.prm to:
   <drive>:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS5\MediaCore

Install the CinemaDNG Importer on Mac OS

1. Download the CinemaDNG Importer DMG file
2. Double-click on the DMG item to mount the installer virtual disk.
3. In that virtual disk, copy the file CinemaDNG.bundle to:
   /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS5/MediaCore

Once the plug-in is installed, the feature is available via the File > Import… menu in Premiere Pro CS5 and the File > Import > File… menu in After Effects CS5.

CinemaDNG files may have a .mxf or .cdng (wrapper file) or .dng (frames stored in folder structure) extension.

Uninstall the CinemaDNG Importer for CS5 on Windows

Remove the file CinemaDNG.prm from:
<drive>:\Program Files\Adobe\Common\Plug-ins\CS5\MediaCore

Uninstall the CinemaDNG Importer for CS5 on Mac OS

Remove the file CinemaDNG.bundle from:
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/Plug-ins/CS5/MediaCore