Opinions on AVCHD

PeterWright wrote on 1/4/2009, 12:31 AM

I've been struck by the number of times that people having serious problems editing recently have been using AVCHD and would like to hear some other experiences to get a perspective on this.

I've only encountered AVCHD once so far, about a year ago - a request to edit a wedding shot by a rich novice in Bali, and editing was so lumpy that I immediately rendered it all to DV avi and life became normal again.

I can understand that this is a cheap way for folks to enter the HD world, and I agree that it looks great played straight from the camera, but don't you think that purchasers should be advised that satisfactory editing involves the creation of proxies - or is that out of date?

I look forward to being placed gently into the light ...

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jabloomf1230 wrote on 1/6/2009, 1:00 PM

"Perhaps someone using the new NEO Scene can elaborate if this helps with any of the issues of AVCHD in editing."
JJK

NEO Scene is just NEO HD (which I have), with a number of the "fancier" options disabled. If you just want to do a straight conversion of HDV or AVCHD to Cineform, it works perfectly fine. CFHD AVI files also work nicely in Vegas, as long as you have at least a dual core CPU. Then again, don't expect to edit any HD files, without at least a dual core CPU (and live to tell about it). ;-)

Note that NEO Scene is a new product, so don't expect it to be absolutely bug-free, until a large number of people (with a wide variety of hardware) have tried using it. It comes in a time-limited full featured demo, so the risk of trying it is only to your wallet, assuming you buy it.

jwcarney wrote on 1/6/2009, 1:27 PM

For the price, NeoScene looks promising.

btw, I've been getting Transcend Class 6 16gig cards from Amazon for less than 40.00 USD for my DLSR, should they be fast enough to capture avchd at 24Mbs?

jfpearson wrote on 1/6/2009, 2:51 PM

I have recorded at 24 Mbps on a Canon HF11 to the same card (Class 6). Works fine.

David Newman wrote on 1/6/2009, 5:54 PM

Just post a minor update to Neo Scene to remove some 1.0 bugs. Please try a preview of Neo Scene 1.0.2

Temporary Link : http://miscdata.com/cineform/NeoScenev102b105-090106.zip

David Newman
CTO, CineForm

TeetimeNC wrote on 1/7/2009, 7:16 AM

Panasonic says class 4 is good for 24Mbps. I bought PNY class 4 16GB cards and they work fine in my HMC150.

Jeff9329 wrote on 1/7/2009, 1:08 PM

Teetime:

I have my first class 4 cards coming for my HMC150. All class 6 until now.

The Sandisk Video HD SDHC cards (class 4) were on sale and I got a few. Glad to know they will work. Sandisk says they will work with any AVCHD camera.