The New Raylight

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mvb

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Raylight 2.0 has been released at dvfilm.com

Among the new features are multiprocessor support (up to 8 CPUS)
improved resolution in Red and Yellow, a new user interface
for RayMaker, and most importantly a P2 Authoring application
called P2 Maker.

P2 Maker has the ability to create a P2 Card image with 720/24PN
MXF files for playback on the camera, which is a unique capability,

Performance-wise on our reference system, which is a 2.2 GHZ dual-core
AMD 64, the specs are (for 720/24P):

Raylight Blue (max quality) is real time at 90% CPU utilization
Raylight Yellow (1/2 res) real time at 30% utilization
Raylight Red (1/4 res) real time at 10% CPU utilization

Raylight Red is significantly better now with 2x resolution vs.
the old Raylight.

Other new features include optional native frame size, self-contained AVI's,
180 degree rotation for 35mm adaptors, and burn-in timecode.

Also Raylight Blue has been enhanced for better blue/green screen
process shots and faster rendering. On the above reference system,
rendering effects in Blue is about 2X real time.
 
Wow.

Wow wow wow wow.

What an excellent update! P2 Maker lets you author back out to the cards or to hard disk or DVD; native frame sizes in Raymaker, self-contained AVIs, multiprocessor support, and flipping for 35mm adapters... can't wait to try all this out!
 
How is this thread not at the top of the list?? This is HUGE news!


The more I deal with DVFilm, the more impressed I am. They provide an excellent product, at a decent price. They don't insult legitimate users by implimenting Product Activation. And what's more-- they listen to feedback from their customers, and impliment features their users want! This is unheard of service.

I bought Raylight back in May, back when it was around version 1.03. I fully expected to pay for an upgrade to the new 2.01 version. But when I filled out the upgrade form, they just emailed me a link with the new version. My wallet never left my pants pocket. This is incredible. I basically got a totally new product, with a long list of new features. Wow.

I really can't speak highly enough of this company. Thanks again!
 
And they're fast to do it. Marcus was the first to deliver 24p native editing support for Premiere, and he was the first to deliver DVCPRO-HD support for Vegas and Premiere, and his product was the first in the world to support 720/25p and 720/50p mode.
 
From your CPU usage I might be able to run on Yellow with my single 2.2 AMD 64 on my laptop at a ball-park 60% CPU usage... Probably significantly more, but it should defenitely be able to run in Yellow. what are the implications of the authoring additions(besides carrying a project on your camera to use as a P2 player) and the "self contained AVI"... I get the rest
 
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Got it. Marcus you are the best, Thanks!

Let us know if you ever decide to run your weekend 24P Film School course . . .
I'm looking for any excuse to get back down to Austin, Texas.
 
USLatinContent said:
From your CPU usage I might be able to run on Yellow with my single 2.2 AMD 64 on my laptop at a ball-park 60% CPU usage... Probably significantly more, but it should defenitely be able to run in Yellow. what are the implications of the authoring additions(besides carrying a project on your camera to use as a P2 player) and the "self contained AVI"... I get the rest
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The laptop should be OK for Yellow as long as the disk drive is fast enough. It may not be if you have multiple layers or rapid cutting. If your preview window is at 1/4 size the Red mode is fine for most cutting, and Red uses a small fraction of the bandwidth of HD.

The authoring will allow you to preview a cut on the camera which is the ultimate presentation method particularly as there is no recompression (except on dissolves. effects, etc). You can also use the camera to record a downconverted MiniDV copy or dub through the cables to a VCR. The HVX200 will add a 3:2 pulldown if you're going to NTSC.

The self-contained AVI is useful if you are editing always in Yellow or Blue and you want portability without copying the MXF source files. Although I always recommend backing up the MXF files even if you don't need them.
 
Can I just add my kudos to Marcus.

He's personally sorted out a couple of quirks very quickly.

You guys (here at DVXuser) ought to be so proud of this community.

It makes our (in the UK) industry shameful. I've had nothing but friendly, efficient support from the likes of the DVX battery guys, prompter people, alex dolgin and software support from Dvfilm. Not to mention Barry Green + Jarred and many others here.

Buying the DVX camera (over the betakit we had) and now the HVXs has made my business go ballistic! And it wouldn't have happened without this community.

It really is how it should be..
 
I gotta second RONE,

I'm in the UK and have struggled with which camera to buy for many years.
Knowing I was out in the cold with no avid, Beta SP and broadcast boards.

I was reading this forum when I had seen a glimpse on one of the threads showing how great the DVX was and to now be in my element with a HVX, almost got my SGPRO, indifocus, formatt matte box, Nikon lenses and spiderbrace all from the hard work thats going on in this forum.

I never would have dreamed that possible many years ago - to have this level of high quality kit, and at a fraction of the price of pro SD gear, let alone Pro HD or Film Gear.

I'm about to invest in Raylight as I want to stick with Premier over Eidus [just from what I know and adobe integration.]

I'd like to check my laptop spec and see if it can handle the highest quality raylight.

I'm running a dual Athlon 64x 3800+ with 2GB RAM, two internal 7200 RPM 100 GIG HDs striped into a RAID 0 configuration., with full 1920x1200 screen.

I can run the Eidus trial at full res no problems, but want to go back to my premier at full res realtime. Will this be possible with my spec?

On a seperate note, I still don't know how I'm gonna get round my inverted picture I'll get with the adaptor when I'm handheld but I'll leave that for another forum.

Thanks!

The Major
 
Export for Final Cut

Export for Final Cut

What Marcus left out was that the P2 writer will create a virtual folder that can be put on an external hard drive and taken to a service bureau (all of which in Denver have ONLY Final Cut) for output to HDCAM, D5, DigiBeta, etc.

They use Final Cut to do a lossless P2 import, and shazam, your edited DVCPRO HD project appears and runs perfectly in Final Cut! And with four audio channels.

Bernie Murray
 
mvb said:
P2 Maker has the ability to create a P2 Card image with 720/24PN
MXF files for playback on the camera, which is a unique capability.
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I've never actually tried this, but I believe Edius can do this as well, and will span across cards as needed.
 
I confess I never tried authoring 24PN with Edius. And what about Axio?

Raylight will spawn new virtual card images as required to hold the long movie
and also ensure that each MXF file is less than 4GB, so you can write it to a
FAT32 drive with no problem.

Also I wanted to make sure that Cineform and DVCRack users know that
Raylight can be used to get their movies out to P2 Cards relatively
cheaply. You just install Raylight and export a Raylight AVI, at either
native or full-raster frame size, and the result can then be dropped into
P2 Maker with no problem.
 
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