Marcus Van bavel
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Yes Raylight/Mac will remove pulldown, and you have manual control over that.
For 60P material, you specify whether to remove pulldown or not, and by telling Raylight what
your target frame rate is (29.97 or 23.976 for example) it removes either 2:2
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There’s a DirectX component which will not work with Vista but the other components (the quicktime codec) which should, and it will still be usable, although you will not get fullscreen real-time playback in HD. I would try the installer for the Encoder product as a test.
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You will definitely need FCP 6 to edit 720p50, to get both the Quicktime codec that works with 720p50 and the Easy Setup for 720p25/720p50.
Also check into DVFilm Raylight/Mac which will speed up your workflow for editing 720p50. You can skip the Log and Transfer step and go straight into editing. https://dvfilm.com/raylight/mac
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DVFilm has the Raylight DVCProHD codec for Quicktime Windows that can play back and also encode DVCProHD and DVCPro50 Quicktimes.
The decoder only: https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder
The full codec: https://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro -
Raylight/Mac can remove the 3:2 pulldown and create a quicktime link file in one step. Only takes a second.
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/mac -
Yes, but with an uncompressed capture card such as a Decklink using SDI or component. They’re only $295.
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DVcpro (25) has the same quality as dv.
What you might try instead is capture uncompressed and export to dvcpro50 quicktime. After you have checked the quality of the quicktime, delete the original uncomrpessed files. Then the dvcpro50 quicktimes can be edited and exported in the same format in Windows using Raylight Encoder ( https://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro ) which is a DVCProHD/DVCPro50 component for Windows Quicktime.
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DVFilm makes 2 products that may help you, Raylight Decoder which is a DVCPROHD decoder for Quicktime/Windows and Raylight Encoder Pro which also does DVCPRO50 and can encode (author) DVCPROHD/DVCPRO50 Quicktimes as well. See
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder
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[jimdumm] “Does anyone have any idea of some software which can unpack MXF files, without unnecessarily being able to understand their contents?”
Raylight Mac will have support for AVC-Intra. Not sure exactly when, though. Just as you suggest it may initially present it as an I-frame only H.264 quicktime.
You might need a quad core+ to play it back real time, since the H.264 gets a lot of its speed by not having to decode a full frame each time.
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You might look at DVFilm Maker 2.4 https://dvfilm.com/maker which can remove 3:2 pulldown from raw HDV clips and convert to 23.976 using an intermediate codec such as Raylight or Huffyvuv. See for example
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/raylightTutorial7.htm
Raylight also has a 1/4-res built-in proxy (called Raylight Red) which can make it easier to edit HD 24P and then switch to high-quality for rendering.