I've started grading iPhone 17 Pro Max footage like cinema camera footage, and ProRes RAW is why

Every year, Apple adds a handful of camera features to the iPhone Pro line that sound impressive on paper but change almost nothing about how the phone is actually used. ProRes RAW is not one of those features.

It's the first time a smartphone has shipped with true RAW video capture, and after spending real time pulling iPhone 17 Pro Max footage into DaVinci Resolve, I don't think that claim is marketing spin.

What ProRes RAW actually gives you

Every video an iPhone has ever recorded, including previous ProRes modes, has baked-in decisions the camera made at the moment of capture: white balance, exposure curve, and color rendering.

Once that's baked in, pulling it back apart in the edit only gets you so far before the image starts falling apart, blocking up in the shadows or clipping in the highlights.

ProRes RAW skips that step entirely. It preserves the sensor's...

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