Serif RAW engine vs Apple RAW engine

[Hans Hoogerhuis]

Hi All, 

There is a significant difference in how the RAW file looks when imported into AP if you use the Serif engine or the Apple engine. That is no news I guess. Apple RAW engine has some default settings that makes the opened RAW file a lot more in the direction of the end result that I like it to be. It is a tat warmer, a bit more pre sharpened and it looks a little more crisp, probably because of some black point and applied curves. 
 

I fiddled a bit with these settings to get the look I want, but it is just not getting there. My question is, whether someone else tried this and came up with some settings Apple applies to the RAW file by default. 
 

I want to use the Serif engine because it gives me the opportunity to have non destructive RAW processing. 
 

I use Canon 80D with CR2 files, but I have the same effect with my faithful Nikon CP P7100 and NRW files. 
 

Grtz. H. 

[NotMyFault]

Neither Apple nor Serif RAW can read the picture profiles from Canon RAW files. For optimum quality, you need to use Canon DPP for RAW processings. Results differ in many aspects, e.g. white balance, noise reduction, lens correction for Canon lenses etc, and last but not least CA correction which is far superior in DPP.

Canon has encrypted some of the metadata, making it impossible for 3rd party apps to access them. 
The differences are non-linear, meaning you can’t use e.g. a LUT derived from several developed version of the images to mimic the look.