Video Editing AVCHD

[sheffieldeagle]

Hi

Just been on UTUBE watching some clips shot on the Pansonic HDC-SD9 and caught this clip of a guy editing some AVCHD footage.

Hope it's of interest!

[sheffieldeagle]

I was very close to buying the Panasonic HDC-SD9 but now I'm very concerned. Editing is very important to me and it seems from these videos that it is just not going to happen. Any thoughts anyone?



Cheers

[rogs]

The least 'CPU intensive' way I've found of editing AVCHD, is to turn it into Canopus HQ. Takes about 3 x real time to transcode using a 2.4GHz P4. Files are about 3 times the size of DV files.
These are intraframe files, which you can edit using Edius.

OK,the files are a bit big, but because they are 'intraframe' they don't need that much computer 'grunt' to play well.

You can use Canopus HQ outside Edius, and there is a free AVCHD2HQ converter, which you can get from the Canopus (Grass Valley) site, which uses the Canopus codec to create Canopus HQ files.

The cheapest way of getting the 'legit' Canopus HQ codec is to buy Edius Neo - which you can trial - although it's not very difficult to find 'freeware' versions of the Canopus codec online. Whether they're supposed to be there as 'freeware'?.......

Only way I've found of dealing with AVCHD on an ancient P4!

[Tricky-Ricky]

Thats interesting, will have to look into this, after buying a Sony HDR SR10 and rendered five minutes of AVCHD which took an hour on a dual core 2gig laptop, i have come to the conclusion that the only sensible way to go is find a multimedia player that can handle raw AVCHD and store on that, if it exists? hence my post here Media player/hard drive supporting AVCHD?
In the meantime the only long winded and not ideal solution i have found is to play back via my PS3 and feed the signal into a Sony DVD/hard drive and do basic edit via that, not exactly AVCHD but not to bad.

[senu]

Originally Posted by sheffieldeagle

I was very close to buying the Panasonic HDC-SD9 but now I'm very concerned. Editing is very important to me and it seems from these videos that it is just not going to happen. Any thoughts anyone?
Cheers

You did not respond to my reply to your post in the Sd 9 thread.. Did you not see it?

[toffee_andy]

I have seen a few videos similar to this and pinnacle seems to take a LONG time to render content using avchd

Vegas faired a bit better in the examples i have seen