AVCHD lite - Panasonic LUMIX

[Brozek]

Hi,
New panasonic LUMIX cameras (TZ7, FT1, FZ38... ) takes video "AVCHD lite" 1280x720 PAL model: 50p (CCD output is 25p), (AVCHD Lite, SH: 17Mbps / H:13Mbps / L:9Mbps ). When I import original clip to PC, video run perfekt, in timeline too, but when I convert clip to another format or to same format!! with VS X2, video go jerky. I think, problem must be in no. of frames.

I dont know, how translate "CCD output is 25p & video has 50p" In properties is 1280x720, 50frps, VBR ca. 17000.

I mean, that VS X12 cant work with this new format.
I have no problem work with DV, HDV or AVCHD, but AVCHD lite is problem I tried convert video to 25p and 50p too, but everythink is bad.

Do you have any expirence with AVCHD lite anybody?


Trial SONY VEGAS has no problem with this processing.

[mitchell65]

I had never heard of the Lite version but "Googling" I found this. It might help in understanding the problems you are having
http://suburbia.org.uk/blog/2009/05/19/172647.html

[Ken Berry]

There have been only a small number of users who have so far brought a similar problem to our attention. Try Search using 'AVCHD AND Lite' as the search parameter. There are only about 6 threads. But I suspect they will not help you much. The fact is that no one here really knows anything about that codec/format I am sorry to say.

[aljimenez]

I also have the new Panasonic and have been struggling to create a video that renders correctly. I think VS is going to need some patch. My behavior is that the rendered video has perfect audio but the video plays too fast and VS adds more sections of the video at the end to match the audio length. This appears to mean that it is reading the frames per second incorrectly and this does not seem too hard to fix. I am currently converting the AVCHD Lite files to Mpeg2, 1280x720, 25fps with a free program: "Free AVCHD Converter V1.0" at http://www.koyotesoft.com/ which VS handles properly and the converted video clips seem just as high quality... Al