Marcus Van bavel
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You can use Raylight to import the video into After Effects in windows, then when its done use Raylight again (P2 Maker) to author MXF files for import into FCP.
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DVFilm will shortly release a native DVCPROHD MXF file plug-in based on Raylight
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For our DVCPROHD transfer to film customers we recommend they export a 10-bit 4:2:2 (YUV) quicktime, and we then convert that to RGB frames or other format for the film recorder. If you have further image processing it may still require chroma smoothing and you have watch out for gamma changes which are possible.
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The latest version now online installs and runs well with Vegas 7.
There was a problem with interference between the Raylight MXF file
reader and the Sony MXF file reader, so the new installer locates
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It was developed for Vegas 6, has not been tested with 7 yet, maybe later this week
Also I believe since the plugin is a file format plug-in it’s not registered
with the plugin manager, so it will not show up there. The only place you will see it is
in the system registry under HKLM/Sony Media Software/File Formats 2 -
Yes, DVFilm Maker (2.3h) will convert Apple DVCPROHD quicktime to Raylight AVI
without recompression, and then you can playback or edit the movie using
Raylight. It is also possible with Raylight to then convert
it to MXF file or other formats.DVFilm Maker is included when you buy Raylight ($195).
See dvfilm.com/raylight
Here is a brief description of the steps that you take
1. Export a DVCPROHD quicktime from FCP
2. On a Windows workstation, install the demo versions of DVFilm Maker for Windows (version 2.3h) and DVFilm Raylight (version 2.01).
Configure the Raylight output folder to an empty folder on your media hard drive (see the Raylight tutorial at dvfilm.com/help).
2. Open the DVCPROHD Quicktime exported from FCP in DVFilm Maker. Maker will not be able to play it back (or will play it back with a white screen) but just ignore that. In Maker select “Deinterlace” and then unselect “Deinterlace”, to turn off all 24P and other processing.
3. In the advanced options select “User selects compression.” All other advanced options should be OFF. Click OK to close the advanced options window.
4. Click on Start. You will be prompted for the AVI codec. Choose DVFilm RAYLIGHT. Click OK.
5. When the process is finished, you will see the movie in the AVI playback window. The AVI viewer in Maker does not play back sound. Use File->SaveAs to save the AVI with an appropriate name. You can check the AVI with Windows Media player, and control the playback quality with the Raylight control panel (see the Raylight tutorial).
Converting Raylight to MXF file:
1. Start Raylight P2 Maker and drag the AVI into the P2 Maker window. See the instructions in the Raylight tutorial on using P2 Maker. The P2 Card images are stored in the “P2Cards” subfolder in the Raylight output folder.
2. P2 Maker can also write directly to a P2 card.
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Raylight (dvfilm.com/raylight) has a free demo and has some key features missing
in Cineform and DVCRack, for example the ability to author a P2 card with the
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Raylight can convert apple or avid DVCPROHD quicktime to Raylight AVI
without recompression, and then you can edit in Permiere or Vegas.
see dvfilm.com/raylight and also dvfilm.com/maker (which comes with it).
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[Lyon Films] “1. Above you said if I shoot 30p in a Canon XL2 I should capture the footage in a 60i project? If so, will motion graphics imported from AE 7.0 still look OK? Also, will cross fades, disolves look OK?”
[Lyon Films] “2. Someone on the DVI thread for a similar question also stated that for those of us shooting 30p in a Canon XL2 that we should be able to capture in the 30i lower fields project setting and then just make sure to export the final file for web, dvd, whatever, as “progressive”. Is this also true? Will motion graphics and transitions look OK?”
I’m going to defer these questions to experts on Premiere.
But except for the 30P setting in the camera, capture, project and export settings need to all agree to avoid unintentional effects.
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[andre] “One last question Markus, if I may… When I capture clean progressive DV footage, it streams as interlaced,
No, all NLE’s store video on a frame-by-frame basis. Not field by field, not even if it’s interlaced.
but doesn’t need to be de-interlaced in order to get progressive DV back I suppose.
Deinterlacing progressive footage would not be good.
Does the NLE still throw away one field or does it detect the frame cadence in order to keep the fields belonging to the same frame, together? Or is the field order to be specified in this case.”
Doesn’t need to do anything because the 2 fields are always stored together.