AVCHD problems

NS wrote on 1/27/2010, 3:03 AM

I have a SONY AVCHD Handycam and is using Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Edition for movie production.
After having created a movie I want to maintain the AVCHD quality (1920/1080) and I want to save the movies on my PC so that I can see them on my 42inch TV.
Saving the movie on the PC takes hours.
I can not play the movies on my PC.
What PC requirements should I be look for?
Do I need a special graphic card?
What program should I use when playing the movie?
Thanks

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 1/27/2010, 3:40 PM

You don't maintain the quality by exporting back to a Blu-Ray/AVCHD format, since Vegas re-encodes. Not being able to view it is somewhat normal, since the format exporting is not straight .m2ts like the one in the camera.

And since you're losing quality, export in another format. Either WMV at 1080p at 16 mbps VBR, or at Sony AVC 1080p MP4 at the same bitrate. WMV will playback even on older PCs, but for the MP4 version you will need either a faster PC, or the CoreAVC decoder, which is the fastest h.264 decoder on the planet (to be used with a media player that supports it, there are tutorials online to set it up).

Irbis82 wrote on 1/28/2010, 2:24 AM

Doesn't VMS9PE install own SonyAVC codec into the system that can be played back via the WMP or other media players? My old cheap VAIO CR1x series laptop plays 1920x1080 AVCHD perfectly with that codec/filter. Also BRAVIAs 5500 series successfuly play rendered with template 1440x1080 AVCHD 16m video even from USB media (ensure that file has *.m2ts). Unfortunatelly videos saved with 1920x1080 AVCHD 16m template at BRAVIA and PS3 may become choppy and out of sync for some reason. But I can't see noticeable difference in quality between 1440x1080 and 1920x1080. Let's be honest - we watch TV not from 30cm but from 2-3 meters usually - so the loss of quality hardly noticeable.