DV Rack or Raylight

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Kissaki

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Hi guys

Any advice welcome - DV rack or Raylight? forgetting cost differences. - Any preferences and why please? Not necessarily just for laptop but any PC. Which will give best results importing to Prem.Pro 2 for best HD results eventually mastering down for sports DVDs.

Any help appreciated
 
Raylight would be my first choice for DVCProHD and MXF support in Premiere.

However, if you want or need direct-to-disk recording, then DV Rack 2.0 HD is your only option, and you get MXF-to-AVI conversion support for free. Raylight can't add support for DVCProHD capture to Premiere.
 
The codecs have slightly different effects on the way the video looks, but I 'd base the decision on whether or not you need the red/yellow/green modes of Raylight or not. Unless you have a very fast machine, that may come in very handy... personally I need Raylight for editing for that reason, but need DV Rack on my laptop for recording/monitoring. Both have their uses.
 
I think he's referring to the audio handling bug in the original DVCProHD Decoder / Batch Converter. Those have been fixed in a patch released on February 7th, 2007.
 
Raylight, hands down. Not only is it an excellent piece of software, the developers actively listen to their customers and actually impliment requested features. So far, all updates (including those that add massive new features that almost make it a new program) have been free!

Moreover, Raylight's licensing is excellent, with no Product Activation or other such schemes. DV Rack, on the other hand, uses activation, and many have experienced issues (see this thread for more info: DV Rack Activation Issues)

DV Rack does give you the ability to capture directly to your laptop. Which is certainly a very useful feature. But unless that is something you absolutely must have, Raylight is the superior choice.
 
I vote for Raylight, but also agree with srfjm vbmenu_register("postmenu_892854", true); .

Both have free trial versions I believe. . .

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