Raylight 3.0 Beta

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Registered users of Raylight can try out the Beta for Raylight 3.0:

http://dvfilm.com/update/Beta.htm

New features include:

Raylight Green

New Quality level Raylight "Green" uses DirectX technology to improve playback speed. Full-screen 1080/24P realtime playback on most Intel P4- and AMD 64-based systems.

New codec options:

Suppress Recompression - Creates non-recompressed Raylight AVI's from either AVI's or MXF files.

Fast Render mode - 2x faster rendering

Auto Mode - In this mode Raylight automatically switches itself between Blue, Green and and Yellow quality modes, so there is no need to fiddle with the control panel.

RayMaker options - RayMaker now allows you to set a fixed, selectable playback rate for silent footage (typically time-lapse or variable speed slow or fast motion).
 
Sweet new release!

Is there a way of losslessly converting a serious magic avi (captured in DV rack 2 HD) to a stand alone raylight avi?

I was hoping the new supress compression thing would let me do this.
 
mvb said:
Registered users of Raylight can try out the Beta for Raylight 3.0:
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any news on Raylight for Mac? you mentioned back in april that you had a version running on a G5 with FCP HD...
 
danny dale said:
any news on Raylight for Mac? you mentioned back in april that you had a version running on a G5 with FCP HD...
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That work had to be put off until I had this other release done but it's next on the list.
 
David Jimerson said:
Wow.
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I hear you had some problems. This is the first version of Raylight that uses Direct X so the installation process is a bit more complex, it has to install two DVFilm DirectShow components in addition to the P2 Viewer components (hopefully already installed) for the Green mode to work. Then there is a long chain of events that has to occur to connect all the components together when you actually use Green. If anyone has trouble, please contact DVFilm Support.
 
Works great on my system (Although blue always worked quite well for me as well). Question: What's your anticipation working with Adobe CS3? Any kinks on the horizon as I'll be switching most likely the day it's available.

Thanks,
John
 
dotconnproductions said:
Works great on my system (Although blue always worked quite well for me as well). Question: What's your anticipation working with Adobe CS3? Any kinks on the horizon as I'll be switching most likely the day it's available.

Thanks,
John
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I've had reports that Raylight works with the CS3 Beta, but you may have to copy the plugin (raylight.prm) to the Premiere plugins folder yourself.
 
This Beta by the way has a conflict with the Raylight Decoder product (the quicktime decoder and DVCPROHD decoder that substitutes for the Panasonic Decoder in HDLink.) Until that is worked out you have to remove Decoder to use Raylight Green.
 
Just installed this on Vegas 7. Now I've got full realtime 24p playback at 720 at best/full, and even (under best circumstances) full realtime 1080/24pa playback in a reasonable-sized preview window.

This is awesome.
 
Is there a way to view Raylight compressed files via SDI from a premiere pro or vegas timeline? I'd like to monitor what I'm doing out to an HD video monitor.

-Tom
 
tomk358 said:
Is there a way to view Raylight compressed files via SDI from a premiere pro or vegas timeline? I'd like to monitor what I'm doing out to an HD video monitor.

-Tom
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Yes, we have a Decklink HD extreme card here with a dual AMD 64 and it plays back Raylight Green from MXF files direct to the card without rendering. Premiere is set up with the Decklink presets, either 1080 or 720p, 23.976.
 
Will the mac version be a seperate product, or if I buy the windows version now will I get the mac version also?
 
Fornero said:
Will the mac version be a seperate product, or if I buy the windows version now will I get the mac version also?
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It will be a separate product, and the plan is to charge $95 to all purchasers.
 
DVFilm has once again surpassed my expectations. I was sure that implimenting DirectX acceleration would kill Raylight's ability to function in Linux.

I was incorrect.

I was able to install and run Raylight with no problems in Wine. It converts the MXF files without incident to standalone avis. One small "bug" though -- the drag and drop support doesn't work anymore, you have to go to "file ->open" Big deal.

DVFilm Maker will install in Wine as well, provided you have first installed the Quicktime 7 player from apple.com. You can then use DVFilm Maker to convert to standalone, uncompressed avis. They take up a ton of space, but they play fine in Linux, without any proprietary codec installs. From there I was able to convert to Ogg Theora, all while running Ubuntu.

I'm going to be posting a step-by-step turorial with screenshots for the whole offloading and editing process under Linux this coming week. Stay tuned...
 
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