AVCHD Question and Long GOP

GoldenPlates wrote on 6/2/2008, 5:59 PM
I videoed some AVCHD footage onto an SD card at Best Buy and imported it into trial version of VMS 8 (I've been using VMS 6) to test out the editing of HD files.

Knowing that AVCHD files use a long-GOP format, I was surprised that the event on the timeline looked an edited the same as an AVI file from my miniDV. Am I missing something? I thought it would be difficult to do a splice/cut at P or B frames.

Help me understand.