Comments on: Buying HD Video cam? You need to know AVCHD!

By: None

None — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:30:03 +0000

If you have to transcode, you degrade the video.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:07:42 +0000

Oh, yeah, with regard to x64, Sony Vegas runs fine as a 32-bit app on Windows XP X64 (I have a Vista-free household).

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:28:11 +0000

I made the same mistake–acquired an HG10 thinking I would get ahead of the power curve, but not realizing just how far ahead of the power curve I would be getting.
My solution was Sony’s Vegas Studio Platinum (roughly $100). It reads the MTS files downloaded from the HG10 and transcodes them into any of a variety of (admittedly lower resolution) common A/V formats.
This works for me, because my actual application is to get hour-long videos onto my company’s internal network for viewing by employees.

By: Eelco van Vliet

Eelco van Vliet — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:53:23 +0000

Hi,

I had the same problem with my HF-100, that has the even newer 1080×1920 AVCHD format.

I use a tool called VoiltecHD (www.shedworkx.com) to transcode my files from the HF-100 to AVI or WMV format. These files can imported into Premiere Elements 4.0. It works just fine and you do not need a big machine to edit.

By: Chief Geek

Chief Geek — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:13:25 +0000

No Macs will not play the file that I know of. I was wrong about storing the files in a Mac. I think I found the directory where the file is stored, you can copy the file to your Mac to store them. Plug in the camcorder into your Mac, in the HG10, open the BDMV folder which is in a folder AVCHD, then stream. The files named .MTS are the video files I assume. One thing you cant do is import the file from your computer to iMovie that I know of. This means you have to move the file back to your camcorder and import the files that way. This is a way to store the file but pointless because you have to import the files to iMove eventually to view them.

By: vilajs

vilajs — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:48:12 +0000

i agree. you have to have a software like the one witch came with HG10 to have it stored on pc, but with macs you cant store it as AVCHD file. its compressed to Apple Intermediate Codec, thats why it takes much more space on your hard drive. or are you saying that new macs will play it as a AVCHD file?

By: Chief Geek

Chief Geek — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:36:21 +0000

Henry Welch – I don’t think so unless you have a pc too and format the drive in Fat32 so both computer can read it. Actually Im not really sure but my Canon HG10 came with a Windows only disc that will copy the raw AVCHD files to your computer so you can back them up or transcode them later. I don’t know if software like this exists for a Mac, if anyone knows, please let us know.

By: Chief Geek

Chief Geek — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:28:23 +0000

vilajs – I would actually argue the opposite. New Macs with iLife 08 support AVCHD, if you buy a new Mac, it will work. There is nothing in Vista or XP that can read AVCHD that I know of, you will have to buy software to read the format.

By: vilajs

vilajs — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:16:10 +0000

correct me if im wrong..

By: vilajs

vilajs — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:23:03 +0000

as far as i know thats possible only with windows computers. they natively support AVCHD. with apple this is not possible yet..