Step-byStep guide wanted for noob.

[MichielP]

I¡¦ve bought a Sony HD camera (using, ofcourse, the AVCHD format). I¡¦m used to work with both Pinnacle and Magix software for editing my videos, but both products are not quite suitable for HD editing (Pinnacle tends to crash very often and Magix get¡¦s very slow even though I¡¦ve a brand new pc with quite good specs). So now I¡¦ve switched to VideoStudio.

So far I¡¦m really pleased with the software. Ofcourse, HD editing is a real challenge for any computer system but VideoStudio performs much better than Pinnacle of Magix. But I¡¦m a noob as far as VideoStudio and AVCHD editing is concerned (not that I¡¦m an expert in video editing what so ever¡K.).

What I¡¦m looking for is a step-by-step guide for 2 things:

- Importing, editing and burning AVCHD on DVD in the best quality possible
- Importing, editing and burning AVCHD on DVD in best possible balance between performance and quality.

Sometimes I want to have the best quality (for example movies of my children) and sometimes I¡¦m willing to get a little less quality (movies of parties etc) if this speeds up editing and rendering.

So many formats, so many ways of editing and burning, what is this smart-proxy etc. I¡¦m not quite sure how to use this.

Does anyone on this forum know a good guidebook or how-to article on this subject? Or maybe someone can give my some AVCHD for dummies introduction? The help function in VideoStudio is a little short....

Your help is much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Michiel.

[sjj1805]

The actual mechanics of adding video files, pictures, sound, titles etc are the same when using SD, HD or AVCHD. The only major difference is that the screen dimensions and bit rates are different.

Proxy files are used to ease the burden on the computer, it creates smaller resolution copies of the large files so that you can tell the program where to make cuts, joins, add music, titles etc. It then transfers those decisions to the original larger files.

Please view
From Camcorder to DVD
and also
From Camcorder to DVD with Video Studio - Editing Phase. (I must get round to completing this second one - just don't seem to have much time nowadays!!)