Alludo USER to USER Web Board

Is proxy editing the method of editing a down sampled clone of an original higher sample, and the editing information applied to the rendering of the original higher sample video?

What are the cons to this? Is there any degrading of anything?

Proxy files are for editing video formats that normally require a more powerful PC. However as was pointed out in your post questioning this, your PC will not properly handle the AVCHD formats.

With that said, you could create proxy files, edit them, then render your edited video to the AVCHD format. Somewhere's on the forum, is posted a method for doing this, where during the render step, you link to your original source clips. Now even with the more powerful PCs, VS is reported to be exceptionally slow in creating the Proxy. Once the proxy is created you can then proceed to edit, the performance would be no different than editing DV.

There really is not any degradation in picture quality. There have been some posts concerning blips around transitions when using AVCHD. This may not be the fault of VS, as each manufacturer has their own variation of this encoding.

Pixelation5 wrote:Is proxy editing the method of editing a down sampled clone of an original higher sample, and the editing information applied to the rendering of the original higher sample video?

What are the cons to this? Is there any degrading of anything?

You have the definition of Proxy editing correct.

There shouldn;t be any degredation but by all means report it if your are getting unsatisfactory results