RAYLIGHT workflow for PC [AVI] in Premiere pro 2.0

majormorgan

majormorgan

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hello,

does anyone have experience with using the Raylight AVI converter for Premiere 2.0? Is it quick to work with or do the initial conversions take a long time?

Do you have issues with filenames or are they retained?

Any help on this workflow would be greatly appreciated as I'm waiting for my HVX PAL version to arrive and I want to get the ground work and editing support ready.

I'm using Windows XP and Premier pro 2.0 on a fast Alienware laptop dual athlon 64.

Thanks

Richard M.
 
Raylight is pretty quick, it's not an instantaneous procedure to convert the files but it doesn't take very long. The filename will be exactly the same as what the original MXF filename was.

You can download a demo copy of raylight and try it out before buying it.
 
I use and own both Cineform and Raylight. I prefer Cineform overall.

Benefits of Cineform are...
-I can playback a full-res clip with CF, but not with RL.
-After converting from MXF, you can delete the MXF's, with RL you have to keep the MXF files.

Raylight has been sending out updates somewhat often though. I believe the next update fixes these issues.

Apparently in certain situations Raylight renders faster in your Editing/Compositing program. So there are times when I have heard people definetly prefer Raylight to Cineform. The best thing is to try out their free demos (as mentioned above), and choose one for yourself...or choose both.
 
Thanks guys. That information is cool amd very helpful.

On my budget I have about £150 left to buy my remaining equipment which is a spiderbrace as I'm hearing cool things about that and the raylight codec if the demo works out well.

Unfortunately I can't run to the cost of the cineform codec as yet but I hope to later on.

Playback isn't an issue at the moment at the highest quality as long as I can export the highest quality to a data DVD or external HD for output. Also my laptop is an Alienware Dual Athlon 64 with 2 gb of Ram and raid 0 striped twin 120gig hard drives so I'm hoping it will be fast enough to playback highest quality - but its not critical if it doesn't.

The thing I am unsure of is retaining image quality through multiple generations. I've seen with the examples on Cineforms site that the codec can handle multiple generations with no degradation. Is raylight as good? What's your experience?

Thanks!

Richard M.
 
What about DVCpro50? Will raylight handle that. as i am more interested in DVCpro50 right now.
 
Yes Raylight imports DV50 files and exports them as AVIs. You have to have downloaded and installed the free Matrox DV50 codec.
 
Thanks guys

This has been really useful as I'm keen to work with DV50 for the bulk of SD projects and shoot some variable 720p for cutting into that.

It'll be interesting to see what 1080/25p. How does that work with the PAL version as the NTSC one is flagged frames at 30fps to then be extracted to 24fps using a pulldown? Might have got that wrong, but it would be nice to know.

Barry does your book cover the PAL version as well?

Thanks again!

Richard M.
 
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