Edited AVCHD from Canon HF10/100?

GoldenPlates wrote on 5/31/2008, 10:31 AM

Has anyone had success editing the AVCHD files from a Canon Vixia HF10 or HF100 SD flash memory camcorder yet with VMS 8?

If so, will you please describe your workflow?

Also, can you burn the output to an MPEG-2 file for burning to a standard DVD?

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Eugenia wrote on 5/31/2008, 1:43 PM

You need the latest Platinum version/update installed, and then it works. You copy the m2ts files on your hard drive, you use the "match media" icon on the project properties and then you edit. There is no special workflow. Yes, you can burn a DVD.

GoldenPlates wrote on 6/5/2008, 8:57 AM

Will you explain the comment to "match media" more fully? What am I matching the media to?

Also, I still don't understand why each frame looks like an "intraframe" when AVCHD is in a long-GOP format?

Eugenia wrote on 6/5/2008, 1:28 PM

Follow step #1:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/

I don't understand what you mean by intraframe. Are you sure what you are seeing is not just some interlacing? Because most consumer AVCHD is interlaced you see, with horizontal lines.

GoldenPlates wrote on 6/7/2008, 4:52 PM

When I read about the frame structure of how AVCHD records in a long-GOP format with an I-frame, followed by B-frame and/or a P-frame, I don't understand how all frames of an event look like an I-frame (with full picture information).

Look at this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_pictures

Eugenia wrote on 6/7/2008, 6:44 PM

Do you really need to know? I mean, it works and it looks as it's supposed to. What more do you need to know if you are not a developer who writes encoders?