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Raylight,P2, + FCP
Is this the way to go (raylight)? I know you have to convert the files inorder to edit with out raylight. What other options do you have if you don’t ahve raylight?
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Raylight lets you edit directly with mxf files without capturing /converting them to QT files with FCP. It very quickly creates small QT files on your hard drive that you simply import to your FCP project and use to edit.
Normally, I do capture P2 files with FCP since I only capture the scenes and takes I want, and the capture is faster than my ability to review the clips, so it doesn’t cost me any time. And it creates another level of backup. I archive all the original mxf files from the P2 cards and the QT files created by FCP during capture.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
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So FCP makes a QT out of the mxf file? But raylight does the samethinig but in a faster way?
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Yes. When FCP captures the MXF file it writes a QT on your drives roughly the same size as the MXF data. However, Raylight rights small files (about 4k, I think) that link to the MXF media. Speed and quality are the same as using the FCP-captured media. The difference is you’re not taking up a lot of disk space with new full-size QTs.
However, always be sure to backup all your MXF data before editing just in case. We do that in the field when we shoot. The P2s are off-loaded to a mirrored RAID and all clips are checked before the P2 is re-formatted. At the end of the day we copy the mirrored RAID to another hard drive as a backup. That backup drive ultimately becomes the archive drive for the project.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.8 QT7.1.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5 (FCP5.1.2, DVDSP4.1.1, Comp2.3, STP1.1, Motion 2.1.2)
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neuman U87s, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN -
Thanks a lot John… U helped me understnad a lot of this… u gave more info then the raylight site it self…. Thanks a lot…ONE
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