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Software Updates for DVFilm Maker, Atlantis, and Raylight

Upgrades may now be requested through an online system. A download link will be emailed to you.
The link expires in a few hours from the time it is created, so download it immediately.

For RAYLIGHT: use this online form for all RAYLIGHT products

For our other products DVFilm Maker and DVFilm Atlantis, use this online form here.

If you have lost your DVFilm Maker or Atlantis serial number or you never got one, click here to get it.

If you are having trouble with this system click here for help.

If you need an update on CDROM by US Mail (cost is $35), use this order form here.

Important info on Quicktime compatibility.

The latest releases are

DVFilm Maker Windows 2.4

DVFilm Atlantis Windows 2.1d

DVFilm Maker Mac 2.12

DVFilm Atlantis Mac 2.01a

DVFilm RAYLIGHT for Windows 3.01 (Installation folder 301-7)

DVFilm RAYLIGHT DECODER for Windows 3.11

DVFilm RAYLIGHT Encoder Pro for Windows 1.1

Raylight for Mac 2.07

Release notes/New info

The Raylight online documentation for Release 3.0 (for Windows) is not yet updated. Refer to the ReadMe file for latest info.

The Support Blog for RAYLIGHT is here, all other products (Maker and Atlantis) see below.

Feb 11th, 2004 - Win Maker 2.0 released. Check here for new features.


Feb 15th, 2004 - Win Maker 2.00a Check here for bugs fixed


Feb 27th,2004 - Win Maker 2.00b, fixed startup problem on CDROM version and 2:3:3:2 remove pulldown/YUV problem

Mar 18th,2004 - Win Maker 2.00c, fixed frame rate problem with some NTSC Quicktimes

Apr 15th, 2004 - Mac/Win Maker 2.00d - fixed a problem in the new motion detector in release 2.0, causing less than optimum sharpness in static areas of the screen. Film-motion look and 60i to 24P conversion was affected. With this bug fixed, static areas of the screen should pass through DVFilm Maker completely unchanged, as they should be.


Sep 20th, 2004 - Mac/Win Maker 2.00f - still a problem in 60i to 24P conversion, now fixed. Only 60i to 24P conversion was affected. With this bug fixed, static areas of the screen should pass through DVFilm Maker completely unchanged, as they should be.


Sep 20th 2004 - Atlantis 2.0 for both Win/Mac released. Many new features including NTSC to PAL conversion. Better soundtrack processing for PAL to NTSC conversions where the soundtrack is interleaved with the video to allow smoother playback on slow hard drives. Atlantis 2 also now supports drag-and-drop features similar to Maker 2.

Oct 10th 2004 - Mac Maker 2.0g/ Mac Atantis 2.0a - fixed YUV mode letterboxing problem.

Oct 23rd 2004 - Atlantis Mac 2.00b, Windows 2.00c - fixed sound missing problem with some Quicktimes

Dec 22nd 2004 - Maker 2.1 released, supports conversion of HDV 60i to 24P, see here for details.

Mar 4th 2005 - Windows Maker 2.2 released, supports HDV conversion to HD AVI as well as Quicktime.

• Apr 24th 2005 - Windows Maker 2.20b. Fixes some problems with HDV conversion: For MPEG2 conversion, deselect YUV mode for higher contrast/more saturated look. Some problems with AVI's in Vegas and other applications fixed. Adding to batch no longer displays first frame of movie.
  
  
• May 10 2005 - Updated Mac software (both Maker and Atlantis) for OS X - Tiger. Applications should now run on any version of OS X. OS 9 is no longer supported. Also Atlantis for Mac now does direct 24P to PAL conversion.
  
  
• June 27 2005 - Updated Mac Maker 2.11 to include a special version for processing FCP5 HDV capture files. This version only works with Quicktime 7 and OS 10.4 (Tiger).
  
  
• July 3, 2005 - WIndows Maker 2.20d. Fixed missing audio problem with mpeg to avi conversions
  
  
• May 1 2006 - Updated Mac Atlantis and Maker. The downloads are now in dmg (disk image) format for easier installation. Fixed a minor bug in Maker regarding audio for HDV quicktimes. Clarification on the two versions of Maker (which used to be in the "HD" and "SD" folders). There are two versions of Maker: one version runs under QT7 and OS10.4 (Tiger) and is required to read HDV quicktimes. It's in the "QT7" folder. This version can be used for any type quicktime including non-HD movies like PAL/NTSC. However it will not run under older Mac OS's due to changes Apple made to the OS X system libraries. Older OS X users must run the "QT6" version. If you think that's confusing, imagine what it was like to figure all this out! Thanks Apple.
  
  
• May 11 2006 - Updated Maker for Windows to 2.3. Many new features including HVX200 or Firestore MXF translation to Quicktime or AVI, 2-pass pulldown removal, ability to read DVD MPEGs, JVC HD100 MPEGs, and capability to resize the frame so you can go from HD to DV or vice-versa. Problems with Quicktime 7 have been solved. Consult the ReadMe file included with the download for details.
• May 24 2006 - Updated Maker WIndows to 2.3b. Some memory leaks fixed for converting Mpeg2 files that were causing long batches to fail. Also fixed potential problem with converting 50i HD files resized to 720 x 480. Also a watermark was removed in the release version for some types of file conversion.
  
  
• June 6 2006 - Updated Atlantis WIndows to 2.1. Atlantis 2.1 can read VOB files (DVD's) and other mpeg-2 files, as well as a wider variety of AVI's. It can also do HD 50i/60i conversions.
  
  
• Jul 3 2006 - Updated Maker WIndows to 2.3d. Some improvements to AVI reader to allow decompression to 32 bits/pixel.
  
• Aug 2 2006 - Updated Maker WIndows to 2.3e, Atlantis Windows to 2.1a, fixed problem with licensing and with film-originated VOB files.
  
• Aug 11 2006 - Updated Maker Windows to 2.3f, fixed some problems with MXF to Quicktime with user-selected compression.
• Aug 30 2006 - Updated Maker Windows to 2.3g, fixed some problems with some AVI codecs crashing, and soundtrack problems on 720/60P MXF files. Also some improvements to upres function from DV to HD resulting in smoother color.
• Sep 7, 2006 - Updated Maker Windows to 2.3h, fixed a problem with 3:2 and 2:3:3:2 pulldown remove and added capabilty to convert Apple DVCPROHD quicktimes to either Avid or Raylight format.
• Jan 15, 2007 - Updated Maker Windows to 2.3i, fixed a problem with exporting long AVI's and AVI's with still frames from Premiere.
• Aug 1, 2007 - Updated Maker Windows to 2.3j to correct problems in the mpeg task. Release 2.4 will be out soon which adds 3:2 pulldown removal from HDV mpeg2 (HV20) files.
• Updated Atlantis Windows to 2.1c. Fixes problems with reading and writing uncompressed AVI's and output to compressed AVI's such as Huffyuv.
• Updated Atlantis Windows to 2.1d. Fixes problems with writing long AVI's.
• Updated Maker Windows to 2.4. Adds 3:2 pulldown remove from HDV (HV20) mpg2 files.

Quicktime notes:

• For Windows DVFilm Maker and Atlantis: Quicktime 7.1.6 for Windows is supported. Older Quicktime for Windows from 5.0-5.x and 6.1 through 7 also work OK. Newer versions may work as well. Hower if you have an nVidia-based graphics card, set quicktime to GDI Safe Mode by clicking Edit->Preferences->Quicktime Preferences, Advanced, Select "Safe mode (GDI only)". This is not necessary for Raylight, only for DVFilm Maker and DVFilm Atlantis.
  
  
• No known problems with Macintosh Quicktime but try to upgrade to Mac QT7 and at least Mac OS 10.4 as soon as you can, for compatibility with HDV.
  
  
• Quicktime is not required for WIndows DVFilm RAYLIGHT