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Preparing Footage For Import

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Next, choose your default playback quality level: Raylight can play back your footage in one of three quality levels; lower-quality modes are provided for faster playback performance on slower computers. If you're using a fast computer, you should probably leave it selected on Raylight Blue. If performance on Raylight Blue is too slow for satisfactory editing, try Raylight Yellow. Raylight Red is a very low-quality proxy file, which should only be necessary on the slowest of computers. Note: if importing MXF files directly into Vegas, Raylight Red will not be available; Raylight Red is only available when using converted .AVI files created by Raylight's RayMaker application (see the "Preparing Footage For Import" section for more details on RayMaker). You can always change this playback setting later, even while running Vegas, so what you choose here is not a permanent decision. Finally, select the Advanced Options you want to use: For simplicity and ease of use, we recommend to select only the "Make self-contained AVI" and "Mark Frames Red/Yellow" as shown in the picture above. Raylight has many options and powerful features; these two options make the footage easier to work with and easier to avoid mistakes. For information on the other options, visit www.dvfilm.com/help. Preparing Footage For Import: Raylight provides several ways to work with footage from P2 cards. Primarily you can choose to either: 1) edit the MXF files directly from the cards 2) edit the MXF files directly from a hard disk 3) convert the MXF files into standard Windows-compatible .AVI files. The easiest, simplest, and fastest way to work with the footage is to keep the footage in its native MXF format. However, pre-converting your MXF files into .AVI files can offer one rather significant benefit: .AVI files can be used in applications other than Vegas, whereas the Raylight plug-in only brings support for MXF files within Vegas. If you wish to use your footage in other applications (such as Adobe After Effects for additional compositing, or for integration into a 3-D program such as LightWave) you may need to convert the footage to .AVI format first (since .AVI is a more universally-understood file 

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Next, choose your default playback quality level:
Raylight can play back your footage in one of three quality levels; lower-quality modes are provided for faster playback
performance on slower computers.
If you’re using a fast computer, you should probably leave it selected on Raylight Blue.
If performance on Raylight Blue is too slow for satisfactory editing, try Raylight Yellow.
Raylight Red is a very low-quality
proxy file, which should only be necessary on the slowest of computers.
Note: if importing MXF files directly into Vegas,
Raylight Red will not be available; Raylight Red is only available when using converted .AVI files created by Raylight’s
RayMaker application (see the “Preparing Footage For Import” section for more details on RayMaker).
You can always change this playback setting later, even while running Vegas, so what you choose here is not a permanent
decision.
Finally, select the Advanced Options you want to use:
For simplicity and ease of use, we recommend to select only the “Make self-contained AVI” and “Mark Frames Red/Yellow”
as shown in the picture above.
Raylight has many options and powerful features; these two options make the footage
easier to work with and easier to avoid mistakes.
For information on the other options, visit www.dvfilm.com/help.
Preparing Footage For Import:
Raylight provides several ways to work with footage from P² cards.
Primarily you can choose to either:
±)
edit the MXF files directly from the cards
²)
edit the MXF files directly from a hard disk
3)
convert the MXF files into standard Windows-compatible .AVI files.
The easiest, simplest, and fastest way to work with the footage is to keep the footage in its native MXF format.
However,
pre-converting your MXF files into .AVI files can offer one rather significant benefit: .AVI files can be used in applications
other than Vegas, whereas the Raylight plug-in only brings support for MXF files within Vegas.
If you wish to use your
footage in other applications (such as Adobe After Effects for additional compositing, or for integration into a 3-D program
such as LightWave) you may need to convert the footage to .AVI format first (since .AVI is a more universally-understood file