ChrisEssex
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Hi
I have a Canon HF100 camcorder which produces some great AVCHD footage at 1920x1080 resolution. Until recently I have been editing this and down-converting to DVD.
I have now invested in a high end Dell laptop (fast Core i7 quad, 8 meg RAM, 1 tb drive) and a Sony BluRay writer and have Adobe Premiere Elements, Windows Movie Maker and Cyberlink suite (including Power Director 9) installed. I have also tried an evaluation copy of Vegas Pro.
I have been trying to edit my original AVCHD files and burn them to BluRay, but am getting a noticeable deterioration in the quality of the final image. I appreciate that AVCHD is highly compressed and that editing and re-rendering will always reduce quality but any advice on how I can minimise this deterioration would be welcome. I am willing to buy another software package if necessary, up to £300 or £400 max (so long as an evaluation copy is available to make sure it works!!).
I am not attempting anything particularly complex. All I am trying to do is copy my SD card directly to my hard drive, import the AVCHD files into the editing program, clip a few files, including just a handful of basic transitions, change the exposure of one or two scenes and then produce/burn to BluRay.
My specific questions are:
1) Is there any product out there which has noticeably better AVCHD rendering than Cyberlink, Adobe or Vegas, because none of them seem great at the moment.
2) I know Cyberlink can keep the original quality of AVCHD files if they have not been manipulated, but it seems to re-render every file that has been changed, no matter how minor the change. Is there an editing package that would re-render only the parts that are changed, eg the first second or two of a transition, and keep the rest of the file in tact?
3) When I produce and burn the disk, am I best to burn to MPEG2 or AVCHD? Cyberlink offers a 1920x1080 24fps option in MPEG2 format but only 1920x1080 in AVCHD. Is there going to be any difference or am I asking for trouble anyway by converting from AVCHD to MPEG2?
4) Will there be any compatibility issues with standard BluRay players if I save in AVCHD format?
5) How does the 24fps option differ from the standard files recorded by my Canon?
I'm sure these are really dumb questions, but I'm struggling in a major way at the moment and wasting a lot of time! Any assistance or advice on the above, or any suggestions as to what else I should be trying, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys
I have a Canon HF100 camcorder which produces some great AVCHD footage at 1920x1080 resolution. Until recently I have been editing this and down-converting to DVD.
I have now invested in a high end Dell laptop (fast Core i7 quad, 8 meg RAM, 1 tb drive) and a Sony BluRay writer and have Adobe Premiere Elements, Windows Movie Maker and Cyberlink suite (including Power Director 9) installed. I have also tried an evaluation copy of Vegas Pro.
I have been trying to edit my original AVCHD files and burn them to BluRay, but am getting a noticeable deterioration in the quality of the final image. I appreciate that AVCHD is highly compressed and that editing and re-rendering will always reduce quality but any advice on how I can minimise this deterioration would be welcome. I am willing to buy another software package if necessary, up to £300 or £400 max (so long as an evaluation copy is available to make sure it works!!).
I am not attempting anything particularly complex. All I am trying to do is copy my SD card directly to my hard drive, import the AVCHD files into the editing program, clip a few files, including just a handful of basic transitions, change the exposure of one or two scenes and then produce/burn to BluRay.
My specific questions are:
1) Is there any product out there which has noticeably better AVCHD rendering than Cyberlink, Adobe or Vegas, because none of them seem great at the moment.
2) I know Cyberlink can keep the original quality of AVCHD files if they have not been manipulated, but it seems to re-render every file that has been changed, no matter how minor the change. Is there an editing package that would re-render only the parts that are changed, eg the first second or two of a transition, and keep the rest of the file in tact?
3) When I produce and burn the disk, am I best to burn to MPEG2 or AVCHD? Cyberlink offers a 1920x1080 24fps option in MPEG2 format but only 1920x1080 in AVCHD. Is there going to be any difference or am I asking for trouble anyway by converting from AVCHD to MPEG2?
4) Will there be any compatibility issues with standard BluRay players if I save in AVCHD format?
5) How does the 24fps option differ from the standard files recorded by my Canon?
I'm sure these are really dumb questions, but I'm struggling in a major way at the moment and wasting a lot of time! Any assistance or advice on the above, or any suggestions as to what else I should be trying, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys
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