Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 10th, 2009, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Mike,
I tried the "Movie Studio" version of...
Mike,
I tried the "Movie Studio" version of Vegas after using Vegas for several years and found it lacking. Had I started with it, I may have not been so disappointed by its limitations.
I...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 9th, 2009, 06:40 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Thanks Bob for making a very important...
Thanks Bob for making a very important distinction.
Cineform's intermediate format is quite different from the method used by Vaast Upshift, Voltaic, and other programs which transcode from AVCHD...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 9th, 2009, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Mike,
Sony Vegas Pro is stable, full of...
Mike,
Sony Vegas Pro is stable, full of features, and produces very good output and I particularly like their excellent forum and support. Unlike the cheaper programs including Pinnacle, Ulead,...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 9th, 2009, 06:43 AM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Ron,
Regarding Nero, my experience was the...
Ron,
Regarding Nero, my experience was the same as yours. Nero, if forced to render, has low quality codecs and the results are indeed poor. Their smart render is my only reason for using Nero,...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 8th, 2009, 02:49 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Just to throw in my 2 cents....
Re-rendering...
Just to throw in my 2 cents....
Re-rendering as we are discussing it here is the process of taking a file captured in one format (AVCHD) and transforming it into another format (HDV), and, in some...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 6th, 2009, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
Allen,
Adobe, for whatever reason, does not...
Allen,
Adobe, for whatever reason, does not offer the ability to only do rendering when neccesary, and therefore re-renders all AVCHD content. The consequences are considerable processing time as...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 6th, 2009, 01:41 PM
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Replies: 66
Views: 14,655
No major news of any new AVCHD editing /...
No major news of any new AVCHD editing / authoring software I am aware of.
I share the same disappointments with Nero and Pinnacle, but consider Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 Ultra to do some things...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 3rd, 2009, 12:10 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Jim,
AVCHD disks can be played on many but not...
Jim,
AVCHD disks can be played on many but not all BluRay set-top players, Sony Playstation 3 consoles, and computers which have appropriate AVCHD playback software from such companies as Nero,...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
May 2nd, 2009, 11:36 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,843
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
May 2nd, 2009, 06:57 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Jim,
Glad to help you Jim and no apologies...
Jim,
Glad to help you Jim and no apologies needed. I am a silver haired retired guy myself and went to work "all those years" myself starting in the 1960's......
All of the video editing...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 30th, 2009, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Brian,
Upshift converts AVCHD to an mpeg2 file...
Brian,
Upshift converts AVCHD to an mpeg2 file format. This conversion / transcoding suffers from some losses going from one lossy compression format to another. In order to retain the original...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 30th, 2009, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Jim,
Yes, if a drive is reading it cannot be...
Jim,
Yes, if a drive is reading it cannot be writing, and vice versa. Two drives thus improve performance over one, and it is common for work files to be placed on one drive and rendering done to...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 30th, 2009, 09:03 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Ron,
I too edited HDV for several years on a...
Ron,
I too edited HDV for several years on a relatively low power single processor 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 class Dell machine, and found it to be entirely adequate. Not until I moved to AVCHD/h.264/mp4...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 29th, 2009, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
My experience with editing and authoring using...
My experience with editing and authoring using any recent vintage computers and software is that disk performance is a non-issue so long as directly connected SATA drives are used, and only 2, at...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 28th, 2009, 06:40 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
Jim,
As you have others have alreasdy...
Jim,
As you have others have alreasdy commented, your computer hardware is very adequate for AVCHD editing. Although I too have extra eSATA ports added with another controller card, I seldom if ever...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 26th, 2009, 06:20 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,447
My experience has been the same as yours and...
My experience has been the same as yours and Bruce's. Not until I got this QX9650 3.0 quadcore did AVCHD from my HF100 edit properly and play properly.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 14th, 2009, 10:45 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 8,565
Very glad to hear that some of my earlier posts...
Very glad to hear that some of my earlier posts regarding Nero were helpful. It's a pretty remarkable little program considering that it is almost "hidden" in the dozen or more apps which Nero sells...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
April 5th, 2009, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,479
Thanks Aaron. Unfortunately your Quicktime .mov...
Thanks Aaron. Unfortunately your Quicktime .mov files at 1280 by 720 low bitrate transcodings sent to Vimeo have a small fraction of the oiginal video, way lower in bitrate and with over 50% of the...
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Forum: AVCHD Format Discussion
April 4th, 2009, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 6,154
Just to throw in my 2 cents....
The native...
Just to throw in my 2 cents....
The native format of the video (and audio) material contains the entire record of the event which was photographed as captured by the camcorder, with whatever...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
April 3rd, 2009, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,479
Buba,
Your clips are really impressive, and...
Buba,
Your clips are really impressive, and show some clear advantages over the HF100 I have been using. The extra bit rate, better sensor, better lens, and better encoder are really beautifully...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
April 2nd, 2009, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,479
Thanks Luis for your prompt reply.
I am...
Thanks Luis for your prompt reply.
I am indeed looking for one or two short sample files in the very place you have been looking, the files numbered 0001.mts, 0002.mts, etc. These are placed in...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
April 1st, 2009, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 7,479
HFS10 Sample clips
Has anyone seen / posted any sample clips from the new HFS10 in the original .mts format?
I am anxious to see how well this camcorder does, particularly in low light. I would especially prefer to...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
March 20th, 2009, 01:12 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 12,478
Mike,
I have never used Nero Vision for my...
Mike,
I have never used Nero Vision for my earlier HDV editing, but if I were trying to solve the problem you are stating I would:
Use an HDV capture program like HDVSplit (freeware) to capture...
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
March 20th, 2009, 01:05 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 12,478
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Forum: Canon VIXIA Series AVCHD and HDV Camcorders
March 19th, 2009, 07:51 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 12,478
I have not had the large file problem you...
I have not had the large file problem you describe Silvio.
Nero Vision does smart rendering especially quickly and well. If you do decide you want to add titles, do clor correction, and make any...
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