create AVCHD movie on flash memory

[sherman39]

Hopefully this may help the OP and others.
Nero 9 and I believe earlier versions includes a product called Nerovision. It's video editing capabilities are not up to VS but it does export an AVC file in MTS format. I have successfully exported a file to disc and then copied it onto a SDHC card which then played back on my Panasonic camera and through that on my HDTV.
Next experiment is to edit in X2 create a AVCHD file in X2, export/import that into Nerovision and export an MTS file.
In fact as my PC is not up to editing AVCHD in X2 I intend converting the avchd to HDV which my PC does cope with and then save the edited movie as an AVCHD file for importing into Nero.Surprisingly, at least to me, using Nerovision my PC did manage to edit AVCHD without to much problem, although it took a while 1.5hrs to encode a file from a movie that was only 8 minutes long with very little editing, and a further 1.5 hours to "burn" it to my local drive and as I said it has nothing like the editing facilities of VS X2.

Regards

Paul

[neonbob]

As IM3 does give you info on the files, I was comparing the X2 generated file to a file created by the camcorder. There are bitrate differences. I'll try tweeking render settings and see if that makes any difference.

Bill

What you have to understand about avchd is that there are 2 different types currently being used:

Main profile used by Sony
High profile used by Canon/panasonic.

Main profile has a max bitrate of around 18 while high profile goes to 24
I'm not sure which type X2 puts out but if it's main profile then it will NEVER work in a canon cam.

As for Blu Ray players....
avchd is not an official part of the spec and therefore will not work on all players.

But AVC/h.264 is supported by the blu ray spec. For those of you having issues playing avchd disks.... there is an easy remedy (albeit more expensive).... render you work to AVC/h.264 on Blu Ray and it should play just fine.