Experiences PE7 with AVCHD
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:07 pm
Hi, Just got PE7 and have a Canon AVCHD camcorder. I'm going to list some issues, concerns and workarounds:
SLOW. My machine is fairly fast 2.16GHz multicore, 4GB RAM but video is very choppy in editing mode. Probably better if I let it render first (Enter key) but it was going to take 3.5 hours to do it.
Canon camcorder when recording for a long time breaks the file into 2GB chunks. If load the chunks one after another into PE7 there is an audio glitch between sections. Works perfect if use 3rd party tool called FFSJ.exe which I found at http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hoangle/filesj/index.html (used the light version) but it can also be gotten from http://the-fastest-file-splitter-and-jo ... tonic.com/ but you have to rename the files so they all have the same filename but have different extensions e.g. 0001, 0002 and then name them back so PE7 can use them (this program does the join FAR faster than any other program I tried but still a hassle with the file renameing).
i didn't find an obvious way to use PE7 in 1080p.
Burning to DVD works for me ONLY if already have the blank DVD loaded, if try to load later says burner not available and only restarting the system solves it.
Haven't figured out best way to make a quality regular DVD from AVCHD 1920x1080 recording: picked normal DVD project type and was ok with clipping off left and right portions but video quality was poor.
One output option in PE7 is to create a file (instead of a DVD) but not clear what option I could pick that would create a file with 1920x1080 resolution.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated?!
Thank you, Brent
SLOW. My machine is fairly fast 2.16GHz multicore, 4GB RAM but video is very choppy in editing mode. Probably better if I let it render first (Enter key) but it was going to take 3.5 hours to do it.
Canon camcorder when recording for a long time breaks the file into 2GB chunks. If load the chunks one after another into PE7 there is an audio glitch between sections. Works perfect if use 3rd party tool called FFSJ.exe which I found at http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hoangle/filesj/index.html (used the light version) but it can also be gotten from http://the-fastest-file-splitter-and-jo ... tonic.com/ but you have to rename the files so they all have the same filename but have different extensions e.g. 0001, 0002 and then name them back so PE7 can use them (this program does the join FAR faster than any other program I tried but still a hassle with the file renameing).
i didn't find an obvious way to use PE7 in 1080p.
Burning to DVD works for me ONLY if already have the blank DVD loaded, if try to load later says burner not available and only restarting the system solves it.
Haven't figured out best way to make a quality regular DVD from AVCHD 1920x1080 recording: picked normal DVD project type and was ok with clipping off left and right portions but video quality was poor.
One output option in PE7 is to create a file (instead of a DVD) but not clear what option I could pick that would create a file with 1920x1080 resolution.
Any and all suggestions are appreciated?!
Thank you, Brent