Is it possible to smart-render AVCHD from the AG-HMC40?
Is there any software that will allow me to smart render the AVCHD from this camcorder? With the Cacnon HF100 I'm able to do that with the bundled software, Pixela Imagemixer, but that software won't accept files from the HMC40, probably because of the higher bitrate that is not consumer grade AVCHD.
The consumer AVCHD Panasonics came with HDWriter, which was awful but at least allowed smart rendering. The AVCCAM Viewer is even more pathetic than HD Writer, it barely allows to put clips together but it won't even allow cutting parts of them. The only NLE that I know has AVCHD smart rendering is Cyberlink Powerdirector 8 but it also doesn't allow it for the HMC40 footage. |
I don't really know of anything yet. AVCHD is still pretty young, and software tools for handling it aren't nearly as plentiful or robust, as for handling HDV, at least not yet.
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Sony Vegas will as long as you don't alter the clips in any way. Just drop on the time line so they touch each other and render out to Sony AVC M2ts 1920 x 1080 50i. Two 1 min clips will render in under 5 secs. I just tried it to make sure with HMC 152 and Canon Hf10 footage.
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Fortunately, at least with full bore AVCHD, smart render isn't nearly as significant as it is with HDV. I'm pretty sure Barry Green did some careful testing and found that in-camera AVCHD (again, at full bore) is very close to as good as the 35Mbps MPEG-2 from an EX1 (about the same), which essentially tells you that there just isn't going to be a whole ton of visual fidelity lost on a single generation of re-compression (not even close to as much as with HDV, 24Mbps MPEG-2). You can even tweak up some compression settings (if you are willing to slow the encode down a bit), to get compression that's a bit more efficient (same bitrate, while achieving slightly better image quality fidelity) than the camera likely can do in real-time. You probably wouldn't want to use AVCHD for multiple (several) generations of re-compression though.
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For what it's worth, visually i cannot tell the difference between the smart rendered footage and original. You could also try Tsmuxer to join the clips almost instantly, you have more options for AVCHD selection there. I use this to join clips for playback in WD Media player hardware box direct to HDTV.
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This is the version i use.SmartLabs tsMuxeR Rambo |
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