Does it make sense to record video in AVCHD on Sony HDR-SR11 if I will need to create standard (not Blue-Ray) DVD?
Should I edit AVCHD video clips in AVCHD mode or convert them to MPEG2 before editing for the standard DVD end product?
What are benefits and disadvantages of both ways?
Thank you.
uhill
Have AVCHD but will need standard DVD
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It really all turns on whether you don't think you will ever want to create a Blu-Ray disc, and that is probably a big assumption as prices of both Blu-Ray burners and discs continues to fall steadily.
Personally, if your computer is powerful enough, my own preference would be to edit in the native AVCHD format and produce a final AVCHD file of your project. You can store that on an external disc and eventually use it when you do acquire a Blu-Ray capacity. And then you can convert that file to a standard definition mpeg-2 for burning, as an interim measure, a standard definition DVD.
The negatives of doing so are relatively obvious: you need a fairly powerful computer, and we only have partial details of your own system. But it will probably be a bit jumpy and slow to respond during the editing process. You could, of course, use SmartProxy, but while that is smoother, it is also quite slow to generate the proxy files.
Converting the AVCHD to mpeg-2 before doing any edits will overall probably be less time-consuming and the editing smoother. But again, doing it this way would rule out any use of that particular project for layer Blu-Ray use. You would thus need to keep the original AVCHD against the day you eventually do acquire Blu-Ray capacity.
But ultimately, if you were not interested in high definition/Blu-Ray technology, it would seem a little excessive to have purchased an AVCHD (with the most difficulty consumer video format currently available) only to use it for standard definition work...
Personally, if your computer is powerful enough, my own preference would be to edit in the native AVCHD format and produce a final AVCHD file of your project. You can store that on an external disc and eventually use it when you do acquire a Blu-Ray capacity. And then you can convert that file to a standard definition mpeg-2 for burning, as an interim measure, a standard definition DVD.
The negatives of doing so are relatively obvious: you need a fairly powerful computer, and we only have partial details of your own system. But it will probably be a bit jumpy and slow to respond during the editing process. You could, of course, use SmartProxy, but while that is smoother, it is also quite slow to generate the proxy files.
Converting the AVCHD to mpeg-2 before doing any edits will overall probably be less time-consuming and the editing smoother. But again, doing it this way would rule out any use of that particular project for layer Blu-Ray use. You would thus need to keep the original AVCHD against the day you eventually do acquire Blu-Ray capacity.
But ultimately, if you were not interested in high definition/Blu-Ray technology, it would seem a little excessive to have purchased an AVCHD (with the most difficulty consumer video format currently available) only to use it for standard definition work...
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