AVCHD Support in MSP8

[robtywlak]

I am considering going down the HD path with a 3CCD HD camcorder from panasonic... but it uses AVCHD and not MPEG-2 which MSP does not yet support AVCHD.

Does anyone know when it will be supported?

I saw on the AVCHD website that Ulead has pledged to support it in April 2007.... well it is near the end of April.

Regards,

Rob

[sjj1805]

AVCHD is supported in MovieFactory 6+ and the soon to be released VideoStudio 11+

I do not know what plans are afoot for the other Ulead range of products.

[robtywlak]

I am also considering the new Canon HV20.... MPEG2 allready supported in MSP

The video samples I ahve seen are very impressive even after being re-compressed to Quicktime7. The native footage must be even better.

I am not totally sold on the 1/2 pixel shift for the green CCD to generate 2x resolution in both directions on the Panasonic camera....

Still pondering which camcorder. Tape is easier to work with than SD cards and the DVD cam's have too little recording time. Then there is the AVCHD codec issue.

HD soon

Rob

[cgould]

I am also considering the new Canon HV20.... MPEG2 allready supported in MSP

The video samples I ahve seen are very impressive even after being re-compressed to Quicktime7. The native footage must be even better.

I am not totally sold on the 1/2 pixel shift for the green CCD to generate 2x resolution in both directions on the Panasonic camera....

Still pondering which camcorder. Tape is easier to work with than SD cards and the DVD cam's have too little recording time. Then there is the AVCHD codec issue.

HD soon

Rob

Rob, I'm biased in owning a Canon HV10 (may switch to HV20), but I have the same concerns re non-miniDV tape format... would be nice to have instant direct access to video, eg disk not tape format, but don't think technology is there or cheap or reliable enough yet, vs just another cheap reliable tape to swap in when I need more space and given that I can just flip a switch and downconvert to SD DV output if stuck... nice.
Have to see if AVCHD support expands to more NLEs, or if miniDVD disks get cheaper etc, but... HDV works great for me so far.

Given that, I heartily recommend the Canon HV's for HDV recording. Picture quality especially in good light is simply outstanding. Look on http://dvinfo.net for lots of threads/sample movie links comparing the cameras. I would love MSPro8/Ulead to better support HDV MPG2 editing (timestamp/scene-detect splitting), but the PQ is there and you can edit.

[GeorgeW]

I was playing around with the HV20 yesterday at Bestbuy. It had a "cheap" feel (the whole thing was some sort of plastic). But I don't care about that if it can record outstanding video. I'm also considering this one as my first HDV camcorder. I almost pulled the trigger last week when I could have had it from CircuitCity for about $850 (maybe I should have done it...)

Regards,
George

[Jerry Jones]

Well, the fact of the matter is that AVCHD is barely supported in VideoStudio 11 Plus.

And the same is true of competing products... such as Pinnacle's Studio 11 Plus Ultimate, which I also own.

The *current* paradigm supported by virtually all of these cutting-edge consumer-level AVCHD video editors is to convert AVCHD to HD MPEG-2.

Then the HD MPEG-2 essentially has the same characteristics as HDV and is edited in the same way.

So -- if you can find a program that will convert AVCHD to HD MPEG-2 -- then MediaStudio Pro 8 is fully capable of editing the resulting high definition MPEG-2 video.

That's about as good as it gets right now for AVCHD.

Not one consumer-level video editing application -- yet -- can currently edit AVCHD with smart rendering and then EXPORT it -- as AVCHD -- to a high definition DVD disc type.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

I am considering going down the HD path with a 3CCD HD camcorder from panasonic... but it uses AVCHD and not MPEG-2 which MSP does not yet support AVCHD.

Does anyone know when it will be supported?