WOOT Raylight is finally up!!! (PC solution for the HVX)

Jarred Land

Jarred Land

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hey everyone, well DVmaker has come through for us, and have released a pre-release version of Raylight, which takes P2 DVCpro-HD 1080 files and converts them to an editable AVI file. Vegas and other NLE's finally have a solution to cut chop and paste.

Thanks to Markus and Soarprod for the news.

http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/
 
Yo? Did you delete my post? Jarred - you always have to be first :-P

http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/index.htm


Limitations

The demo version supports only 1080 line HD movies. The Raylight product, once
is becomes available for sale (15 January 2006) will support 720 line movies
as well.

The demo version places a watermark on each frame in high-quality mode.

The demo version of RayMaker will not encode MXF files for playback on the camera,
but the release version will have this capability.

The demo version of the codec will encode back a cuts-only edit to Raylight AVI format, but any
dissolves or effects, etc will render as black frames. In the release version
you will be able to make a Raylight AVI with both recompressed and
non-recompressed frames.

YUV playback is not yet supported.
 
sorry soarprod i tried to merge and something went wrong... Dont worry dog, i gave you credit :)

There was a question on 720 as well, and as Soarprod mentioned it will come on the release product.
 
Jarred,

Following the readme text file, I get nothing after ignoring the Windows logo prompt. I'm in Vegas 6.0c, but don't have an MXF to test with - might you furnish a short piece of media? I'd be glad to host it!

Cheers, and thanks to DVFilm for this timely solution!

e
 
It's good news, but it sounds like the way the Canopus codec works with DV.
If you move the files, you lose the ability to play them back.

If anyone has ever used the canopus files, and lost access to their edited footage, that can really be upsetting.

Also if it converts the Panasonic video to their own format, does that mean it takes up twice the area on the hard drive (having 2 files for the same thing).

It is good news for sure, if you edit with a PC, but I would prefer something that does not limit my use of the files.

Here is an example:
say you just converted your files, edited the footage, and then wanted to save the files to DVD-R for later use.

If you move the data, you lose the data.
How will that be a good thing?

I can not afford to have a 500 gig drive for every project I work on, I need the ability to save the files to low cost media such as DVD-R
 
Green Hornet said:
If you move the data, you lose the data.
How will that be a good thing?

I can not afford to have a 500 gig drive for every project I work on, I need the ability to save the files to low cost media such as DVD-R
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Does Raylight do this? I hope not.
Steve
 
Sorry to insist, but do you know where I could get some MXF's to try the new software?

Thx in advance
 
Green Hornet said:
I can not afford to have a 500 gig drive for every project I work on, I need the ability to save the files to low cost media such as DVD-R
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You're going to face that problem no matter what if you're working with HD -- the files are just BIG, and DVD isn't going to store more than a few minutes per disc (especially 1080p) no matter how you edit it.
 
Wow, hope Raylight works as well as we hope. Much more affordable to plunk down 200 bucks for Raylight and use your current editing system instead of switching platforms. Anyone gotten this to work yet?
 
Isaac_Brody said:
Anyone gotten this to work yet?
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I think so... Kaku had put up two raw MXF shots some time ago, both locked off shots of buildings so it's difficult to judge motion, etc.

I followed the instructions, put them in folders and did the conversions, assuming 60i video instead of using any 24 option. Sure enough, small sized "header" avi files are created, and play back audio as well as video. Quality of these files can be switched on the fly from a little pop-up control panel with low, medium, and high buttons.

Using Vegas 5, I was able to import the proxies, and edit with them as normal. On my older dual Xeon 3.0 I was able to get full frame rate only from the lower quality setting, and when using Vegas in draft and auto mode.

Exporting them as a photojpeg at full resolution worked, but was very slow (one frame a second), as were all the other exports I checked. You can also export as the Raylight codec avi, and it responds as the clips do when played individually, ie based on the quality setting of the checkboxes.

My understanding so far is that the avi's created by Raylight are "header" files, probably containing audio and they reference the original files for actual picture information. Maybe they contain low rez video for the lower quality mode, not sure. They won't eat up your hard drive space, I don't think, along side your raw files.

Exporting as a full Raylight movie of your edit will be a referenced proxy, probably only creating new material where there is a dissolve or effect applied to the source. Of course that would include all color correction, etc.

Anyway, that's the first look... make sure you read the docs on site and give it a try. Sure would be nice to have some Advanced pulldown raw 1080 MXF's to work with though...

Jim Arthurs
 
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