intermeditate codecs free &/or $$ - AVCHD

dburke wrote on 2/26/2009, 6:49 AM

As to Eugenia's advice for intermediate codecs I'm seeing:

Huffyuv good for free..
Avid DNxHD not so good for free..

Cineform NeoScene best for $130...

My question is anybody use:

SheerVideo($150) or

Raylight Ultra($150)

Possibly outsides the boundaries of this forum?? I've read for 'post' Sheer is good, VJs like it too...

Anybody use Raylight Ultra?

Thanks.

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Eugenia wrote on 2/26/2009, 3:34 PM

I'd go with Cineform. Vegas already has a way to export in Cineform (older version), without having to buy it.

EDIT: But if you want it for AVCHD conversion (your comment was not clear at all about it), then yes, you better get Neo SCENE. However, if you already have a Quad Core PC, you don't need it at all, Vegas will be able to edit AVCHD in real time.

dburke wrote on 2/27/2009, 5:36 AM

E.
Many personal thanks for your blog, immeasurable help over the last few months.

I was unclear, yes I want to convert AVCHD to an intermediate:
Priorities below.
1. for editing... no quadcore here yet :) ie offline for now.
2. then schlep around in other programs like AE or to get to the the Magic Bullet Looks suite in Studio 12.

Cineform is stable and works well with Vegas, but conflicts with Studio 12. Sheer is suppose to be good for post, ie AE, file size smaller. Raylight is a mystery to me, although I have an old rev of the de-intelacer on the Mac that was great. For now experimenting with HuffYUV.

If I stayed in Vegas Cineform would be a no-brainer.