"A rendered file should be able to preserve source TC and file names etc."

Source time code is not what's being discussed. It's time/date stamp.... different thing entirely.

As for file names... you choose it. You could choose the same one... or different one.

Hey Bob-
What other apps can preserve this through editing? Would love to know. I don't do much other than strip out the garbage segments and stitch them back together. Would love to find a reliable AVCHD "trimmer" that did not re-render. The two I know of produce garbage and artifacts in the output (Famering really does, and Elecard's HD editor does occasionally).
Shawn

Have you tried VideoReDo?

"If the file is altered or messed with in ANY way then the time/date stamp gets changed to reflect the new standing."

Does the Date/time stamp recorded in the PGS stream get altered too or are you just talking about the file date. It seems to me that part of the point of embeddint this date/time stamp is to preserve that metadata regardless of the filesystem's file date.

"Well... yes and no. Remember that vegas never actually alters the original file. It stays intact..... along with the original time/date stamp. Of course the NEW rendered file will have the date rendered as the "DATE CREATED". "

Ah. I was unclear. Vegas is nondestructive, of course. What I meant by "editing clips" assumed that you'd render a new file. And, theoretically anyway, some rendered file types could have metadata in them that could include a creation date that would remain intact regardless of the file date.

And, as Bob points out, a Quicktime Reference file wouldn't mess with the source footage's metadata (as long as it's refering to that source footage and not rendered footage, I suppose). But then a quicktime reference file isn't a rendered file.

Rob

Platinum will be equal to 11. animated text with presets protitle.

The data is not altered in the PGS stream during transfer by whatever method.

Vegas apparently ignores the PGS stream so it doesn't even make it to the timeline, so it definitely won't appear in any rendering.

Peter I just did, and there's 2 problems:

1. It does not output the pgs stream.
2. Even worse, VideoRedo has "blips" right before the scene changes. So it's useless to me.

Will look around for others. Even if I could find one with great output, I could always demux the .mts file and grab the pgs stream and remux it back together after editing. I'm just not convinced software exists that can edit / remove any frame for avchd without having to completely reencode and have the output "blip" free.

"VideoRedo has "blips" right before the scene changes"

Are you saying that you don't have one scene per clip?

If yes, how did you combine them? That may be your problem.

I made an AVCHD disc on DVD using Sony PMB, but the PGS track did not get transferred.

No Peter, what I'm saying is if I take a 3 minute scene and remove 30 seconds from it, I can see blips when using VideoRedo. Not so with Vegas and a full render. So to me the "no recompression" aspect of VideoReDo is useless if I can see artifacts where there's a cut.
Shawn