HVX200 and PremierePro

[Marcus Van bavel]

[BConover] “What is the workflow with this camera and Premiere Pro 2.0?
What extra drivers/plug-ins are required?

Thanks!”

You’ll need Raylight https://dvfilm.com/raylight

The MXF files from either the P2 cards or a Firestore are converted to
Raylight AVI. The Raylight AVIs are then brought into Premiere
for editing.

A tutorial on using Raylight+Premiere with the HVX200 is here
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/raylightTutorial1.htm

[Bart Conover]

Thanks . . .I’m trying that out right now. It also appears as though Cineform may have a solution soon.

[Uli Plank]

Raylight plus Premiere Pro works pretty well for me, as opposed to Final Cut Pro, which is not supporting European framerates (yet?). The big davantage is the possibility of working with proxies, so you can edit HD even with a relatively decent PC.

If Apple is not giving us 25/50p soon, I might change to this workflow, and I’m saying this as a diehard Apple user. No that we have double-boot 😉

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Richard Sutcliffe]

Can anyone tell me what the effect of working with Raylight is on the files? To clarify, does raylight leave the mxf untouched and convert them to some sort of a proxy? What size is the raylight created file?

TIA

[Marcus Van bavel]

[pom_boarder] “Can anyone tell me what the effect of working with Raylight is on the files? To clarify, does raylight leave the mxf untouched and convert them to some sort of a proxy? What size is the raylight created file?

TIA”

Raylight creates a lo-res proxy (the Raylight AVI) and the MXF files are untouched. The frame data in the AVI also contain a link into the original frame data in the MXF file.

For 1080 line format the AVI is about 1/4th the size of the MXF file, for the 720 line format it’s about 1/2.

There is detailed info at https://dvfilm.com/raylight under “Raylight Documentation and Support”