AVCHD Editing

I am currently using a PC and can't stand editing in High Def on it
so I am considering switching to a Mac and using Final Cut Pro, but I am not sure if the laptop I am considering will be powerfully enough to handle AVCHD editing:
15" Macbook Pro
Intel Core i5
4 GB Memory
320 GB Hard Drive 5400rpm
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 256MB

If you look at the specs, you'd be safe.
However, I'd make some recommendations in order of importance:
1. Upgrade to a 7200RPM drive. It's only $50, so it shouldn't hurt too much. But you'll take a hit on battery performance, but if you're tethered to electricity, you won't be effected too much.
2. Upgrade to 8GB RAM. According to the specs, 4GB is fine, but 8GB will keep you from disk access.
3. Upgrade to the i7, if you can afford it. It has some improvements in a whole host of areas from hyperthreading to turbo speed (the ability to accelerate the processor when necessary), but the most important thing, with the 15", is that you get 512MB of VRAM with the i7 version.
If you really want don't want to go crazy with editing, do as much as you can to maximize your specs.

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  • Speed up AVCHD Editing and workflow in PP CS4

    G'day everyone,
    I want to edit and cut AVCHD footage in Premiere Pro CS4. Since my PC
    is a bit older I'd like to know what internal functions and settings can be
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    Thx! I am going to work with a new i7 soon. Just like to know a few
    good setting in advanced which improve performance.
    2009/7/4 Harm Millaard <[email protected]>
    There are no steps for an older PC that will speed up AVCHD editing
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    >
    1. Do not use AVCHD as source material and get a different camera.
    >
    2. Get a new PC, at least an i7-920 and all the other components. See
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  • Is native AVCHD editing finally working in FCP6?

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    What is the problem with using ProRes (apart from size of files)? It is an awesome codec. On my humble Mac Pro I can play back 3 streams with a couple of filters applied to clips and transitions in rt.
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  • Intel 960 vs dual Xeon E5520 for AVCHD editing

    Like many people on this forum I am trying to determine the best hardware to purchase for my use of Premiere Pro. For the last several years I have been using Liquid Edition but decided to move over to Premiere because of its support for AVCHD editing.
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    There are a number of things to consider:
    1. Price/performance
    2. Number of CPU's and cores
    3. Clock speed
    4. Memory slots
    5. Overclock ability
    What are the factors in favor of the i7-960 in comparison to dual E5520:
    1. Price/performance
    3. Clock speed
    5. Overclock ability
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    2. Double CPU's and double the number of cores
    4. Twice the memory slots (12 or even 18 versus 6)
    When looking at the PPBM results, the i7-960 @ 3.2 performs around equal to dual E5520 @ 2.26. So effectively double the cores and lower the clock speed gives around the same performance. However, overclocking can have a significant impact as you see in the top results and that is where dual Xeons have a problem. Servertype mobo's are very difficult to overclock if at all (the same applies to Dell XPS BTW, because of their crippled BIOS). But the servertype mobo's have double or triple the memory slots of an X58 mobo and with CS5 around the corner, that may be a distinct advantage, because you can at reasonable prices go for 24 or even 36 GB memory.
    However you remain limited to the standard clock speed and E5520 are not very fast. On the other hand if you were to build the system yourself, you could get an i7-930 at half the price of a i7-960 and overclock it to let's say 3.6 and it will be faster than both a single i7-960 and a dual E5520 at stock speeds.
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    My advise: Depending on your budget, calculate between 30 - 50% of your budget for disks and raid controller. That will probably limit your choices.
    If you have indefinite means available, I would go for dual W5590 or the new Gulftown hexacores, at least 24 GB RAM and an Areca 1880iX-24 with 24 Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 600 GB disks in raid30 and 4 SSD's in raid10 for boot disk. Add a nice nVidia card and a Tesla C2000 co-processor and you are equipped for the next coming years.

  • AVCHD editing in Final Cut Studio 2 vs. HDV?  Which workflow is smoother?

    How is AVCHD editing in Final Cut Studio 2 compared to HDV?
    I am in the process of buying a new camcorder.
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    AVCHD isnt any harder to edit then HDV. We are running the SONY EX1 which is Sold State Camera. You have to use Sony XDCam Transfer software to get it into FCP.
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    AVCHD is a lot faster to ingest (ive found 4x realtime) and because you have to use the Sony XDcam Software for transfers you end up with better Loggin metadata (mostly because its easier at the time of transfer)
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    When it comes to HDV we use the HDV-Z1 cameras and the process with the Z1 is just the same as with a consumer Level DV camera. It takes longer to ingest video because its realtime. But once in it runs fine. For backup its already done by the tape and again we store all Footage on Harddisk for long term storage once the project is done with the Tapes as backups. Oh.. and also the tapes are really cheap compared to the Solid state cards.
    I have to say i was happy with AVCHD at first because the initial setup was very expensive. BUt once setup the workflow is smoother and faster the HDV tape based system. I do find the quality to be better as well on AVCHD.
    I hope that helps

  • AVCHD edit in PE10 share to DVD or Blue Ray

    I am currently editing a project in AVCHD and plan on making DVD and BR discs.  Not all the people who want this footage have blue ray players or HD TVs.   The footage is of sporting events with lots of action and camera movement.    What I have found in doing many trial samples is the DVD quality is poor that PE10 produces when using AVCHD files.   I have done some limited editing with DV from an old camcorder in PE10 and it looks much better than the AVCHD rendered to a DVD disc.  Since the AVCHD files are much higher quality I was very disappointed that I can't get the same quality as an old camcorder that was mini DV.  After reading various forums and Steve Grisetti's book I have a work around but it seem crazy to go through all these steps.   Does this make sense?
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    You should be shooting at 1920x10801 for Blue Ray otherwise you will get an unexpected loss of quality in trying to make your final BD.
    1440 doesn't correspond to any horizontal TV size (usually 680,720,1366 or 1920)
    The loss occurs because you cant fit in an exact pixel so a sharp video transition gets averaged around a few pixels immediatley halving the apparent resolution.
    To see this at it's worst, set your computer adapter card to half the pixel resolution of your computer monitor and try to read fine text compared to when it is exactly the same.
    This matching is why true full HD 1920 x 1080 observed on a true 1920x1080 big screen is so dramatically better than all others. (Few TV transmissions are true Full HD)
    There is always a loss of some quality converting resolutions that are not an exact multiple of the final result.
    You should also be cropping and converting all stills to 16x9 1900x1080 pixels (in Photoshop) before adding to the timeline
    Because HD is so much better, HD camera dont need so much "high frequency" boost or sharpening as standard cameras did,
    They are relatively soft at the point where the pixels cease in DVDs (about 640)
    The HD sharpening (or crispening) is done at a much higher pixe setting setting in HD and this is completely wiped out when you convert to DVD.
    The way to compensate is to sharpen the video to be downconverted at the 640 pixel part of the spectrum before converting which is what most standard def broadcast cameras always did to make them apparently sharp at that lower resolution (it was all done with mirrors!)
    Obviously you only sharpen the file to be made to a DVD, not to the one for BD although you can often make up for a fuzzy original even in a BD!
    See the difference only 10% makes?

  • Multi-camera AVCHD editing workflow in Premiere CS4

    I have a client project that has me wondering what workflow to use and I someone on this forum probably has the expertise to know the right solution. My requirements...
    1. Client is recording a scene using 4 cameras at once, like a live TV show is shot, all AVCHD footage, 1920x1080px 17mbs, square pixels.
    2. I must playback in Premiere the 4 video streams in real time and choose one camera to output, like a director would switch a live TV show. So, all 4 streams are playing in Premiere's multiple-camera editing windows. Each show I'm editing is about 1 hour long. The advantage of multi-camera editing of course is I can play all 4 cameras at once and live switch between them in Premiere to arrive at a 1 hour show in 1 hour of editing time.
    3. Until I can upgrade my hardware that can possibly handle 4 streams of AVCHD, I'm stuck needing a workflow to convert the original AVCHD to some  lowres format, edit those offline low res copies to get my edit decision list, and then reconnect the online HDV AVCHD clips to export through Media Encoder for a final production. My output format is Flash F4V 640x360 px square pixels for Internet playback.
    4. Hardware: I'm running Windows 7 RC using CS4 Premiere 4.1, 4gb RAM, 2.4ghz dual-core processor with 64mb Intel turbo boost on a notebook PC. I do have 4 hard drives to hold each camera's footage on its own drive, and a fifth drive to ouput the edited version to, in addition to a drive to hold my OS and Premiere. The external drives are connected via eSATA to the notebook.
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    I must playback in Premiere the 4 video streams in real time
    Good luck with that.  Many folks have trouble with even one stream.
    edit those offline low res copies to get my edit decision list
    I'm not sure offline editing with AVCHD will be possible because of the folder structure.  You may not be able to 'replace' the lower res copies with AVCHD.
    My output format is Flash F4V 640x360 px square pixels for Internet playback.
    Oh, man.  Shooting HD of any flavor is just overkill that adds unnecessary work to the process.  Have your client shoot in DV.

  • 5930K vs 5960X for AVCHD editing and color correction?

    ***I have also posted this in Hardware Forum because I'm not certain which forum will be the best place to ask. Mods, I apologize if this is a no-no and of course you're welcome to remove the one you deem inappropriately placed. Thanks**
    Hi guys, getting ready to have a new custom system built (probably iBuyPower, not sure yet). I would love your input on choosing the ideal processor. I have read benchmarks and forums on both the Intel 5960X and the 5930K. Most benchmarks are only concerned about encoding times, not the actual editing and color correction processes. I realize that encoding (exporting) would be generally faster on the 8-core 5960 compared to the 6-core 5930. HOWEVER, all my source material is AVCHD and for that, higher clock speed does make a big difference during the actual editing. So let's forget about encoding/exporting right now and ONLY think about the actual editing. Let's also assume I will not overclock, or if I do then never more than 20%.* I 'm not a gamer and this workstation is ONLY for editing. I use Premiere Pro CC 2014.x and always keep it up to the latest version.
    Since the 5960X is only clocked at 3.0 Hz. I'm concerned that editing and color correcting AVCHDs will be not as smooth as one would expect from a $1000 chip. The editing process is quite complex, with multiple video layers (all AVCHD, either 60p or 60i), picture-in-picture, color correction (mostly GPU-accelerated ones such as the Three Way CC and RGB Curves), and so on. It's not simple cuts and a few transitions. In fact, the work required on those AVCHD files is very much beyond what AVCHD is meant for but it is what it is.
    So, considering all that, would you STILL fork out the extra cash to get the 5960X versus the 5930K, and if so, why?
    I thank you in advance for your opinions and insight!
    Current planned system specs (highlights)
    - Win 8.1
    - 5930K or 5960X (help!)
    - Asus Rampage V
    - 32 Gb 2666 RAM
    - GTX 780 (possibly will invest in a Titan X 12 Gb if funds allow)
    - Intel 730 SSD (480 GB) for OS and programs
    - I will use my current set of 5-6 SSD drives for sources, scratches, misc pull files, exports
    Thanks again for your feedback!
    PS: I would like to emphasize again that the actual process of editing and color correcting AVCHD files is what matters most to me here rather than getting the absolute fastest encoding times.
    * I realize that both chips are unlocked and made for overclocking. I've overclocked for years but frankly, I was never that comfortable with it, lots of crashes and instability - and that was at low overlock levels of around 20% or less. I do not want manage overclocking or thermal management or worry about frying the chips. If at all possible I would like to run the chips at stock, or as close to stock as possible. However I'm also open to suggestions about that.

    Actually the 5960X will clock the turbo speed for all cores if you set it that way which is one of the things we do with our systems. All Intel chips that are not locked can clock to their turbo rating for all cores if set that way. Even without setting all cores to the peak turbo ratio they will turbo to a clock speed higher than base when all cores are active. It's just not the peak turbo ratio. That has to be manually set. Turbo occurs anytime the system load reaches beyond a low level regardless of what your doing. The system boards and bios effect that. You can also disable a setting in the bios and the system will always stay at it's peak clock ratio. The 5960X clocked at 3.9 will easily outperform the 5930K with all codecs due to the cores and cache.
    We can configure the systems with any hardware available in the market. However we cant include all those items on the website right now without making it far harder for people to configure systems. The hardware options we list are there because they are tested to work with the video and audio hardware/software and the reliability. We also support the systems as a solution for the life of the system. We have price the systems for that support which is part of the price difference. The options you are looking at wont have near the same support or expertise with the hardware and software together hence why your asking the questions here.
    Eric
    ADK

  • AVCHD editing with CS4 works fine for me

    I saw a couple of threads discussing AVCHD with CS4. I was waiting quite a long time for Premiere Pro CS4 - tried some other applications in the meantime with no success - but now I can say it was worth waiting. I have a Quad Core Intel 2,4 GHz, 8 GB RAM, Vista 64, NVIDIA 9600 and editing AVCHD footage (1920x1080 50i, PAL, captured in my Panasonic HDC-HS9 with highest quality level of ~17MBits/s) is really good, although some artifacts (some, not many) are shown in the preview monitor. But editing is really fast, preview-playback within Premiere also. I have to render effects but after rendering, they are also very smooth.
    Exporting to BluRay either with MPEG-2-BluRay or H.264-BluRay in AME/Encore results in great picture quality(!), and I mean great quality. No artifacts at all. Watching the video on a FullHD beamer on a large screen is really a pleasure. It took me (or my PC) 6:30 hours to render a 01:05 hours FullHD AVCHD video to MPEG-2-BluRay (max. quality, ~35 MBits/s), with a lot of effect-filters like cross fades etc.
    Rendering to H.264 is roughly 3-4 times slower than rendering MPEG-2, but I have only done it for a sample video of 1 minute. The resulting Blu-Ray was also perfect from picture quality point of view (no difference to MPEG-2 except the volume size of the resulting file), but my PC needed much more time to render 1 minute video using H.264-BluRay than it needs for a MPEG-2-BluRay export.

    >> Rendering to H.264 is roughly 3-4 times slower than rendering MPEG-2
    ...hmmm... this brings me back to the question I just asked elsewhere, which is: How does one properly export AVCHD to H.264 for Blu-Ray without loss of quality? Being as AVCHD *is* H.264, shouldn't the "transcoding" here basically amount to copying the existing data? I'd expect it to be WAYYYYY faster than exporting to MPEG-2 :-/
    3-4 times slower than MPEG-2 would basically be a non-starter for me; I have a quad-core box with 4Gb RAM, and it took nearly 8 hours to turn 45 minutes of AVCHD (no effects) into DVD MPEG-2. Source and target were both interlaced. Strangely, exporting the interlaced footage as progressive cut the time by more than half :-? I didn't care for the choppiness of the result, however.
    Cheers,
    Aaron

  • AVCHD Editing - Export - Best possible quality?

    Hi there,
    I own the panasonic hdc-sd9 (avchd). I´ve read millions of words regarding the quality, problems, exports, interlace and so on and (although I understand the details very well) after all I´ve been confused indeed.
    What I really want to know (a nobody could answer in a clear and simple way) is the following:
    1. I´m able to import 1080p-movies into iMovie 08. Since iMovie only works with 540 lines, what happens to my video files? Does iMovie cut away every second frame? (1080p is not interlace!)
    2. If I use FCE or iMovie HD 06 and do an export of 1080i, applying an deinterlace-filter, how much lines will be exported (1080 or 540) ?
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    airbusjoerg wrote:
    .. What would you suggest ..
    buy a different camcorder... NO! Kiddin'!!
    .. flashmem devices as yours are only supported by iM08..
    and AVCHD is of no use for iMHD6 too..
    we noticed on araise of iM08 some weird effects on export of 'video' from within iM08 Projects (me old dv user, so forgive my ignorance making my test with that old Standard-standard): http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1090633
    afaik, AVCHD gets automatically converted to AIC to make it editable (=no 'native' AVCHD editor on Mac). what happens to progressive footage on export? No idea.. (lack of AVCHD files......)
    that 'cheap' deinterlacer was meant for the QT-Deinterlacer feature: you can double any odd line to create 'progressive'; or, on professional equip, a DI would 'blend' the odd and even lines into two 'inbetween' lines..
    Don't hesitate to perform your own tests, free tool JES Deinterlacer http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html - it uses that 'blending' techniqué.. does NOT rely on the Quicktime engine..
    so, iMHD6/FCE3.5 is of no use for your device; iM08 could probably do weird things on export.. test it and share your insights, screen shots preferred..

  • Optimizing for AVCHD editing

    I am trying to switch to Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 4.0.0 for my editing from Final Cut Pro but working with AVCHD files is a real bear. I don't mind so muc having to initially Render the Work Area in order to make editing smoother, but every minor edit requires you to re-render the clip, which for me averages 10 minutes. If I have to do this 5-6 times per video, I have added an hour of waiting around to my workflow. Are there any settings, preferences, or best practices for working with AVCHD files that would help make this process closer to the experience I have with Final Cut Pro? I am not opposed to even converting the videos to a different format if that would help so long as it doesn't dramatically affect the workflow time. Right now we would rather spend money on a high end PC than on a high end Mac, but if we can't make editing easier on a PC we will be forced to stick with Final Cut Pro.

    Look at the system configurations at http://ppbm4.com benchmark to see what is in your terms high end. Do the benchmark yourself and submit the results to Bill (you can also send them to me by private mail or here if you want).  That way you will know how your system performs and whether further tuning is needed to handle your AVCHD material.

  • AVCHD Editing 1920 vs 1440

    I've been having nothing but trouble with AVCHD clips in Adobe PRE7. I've finally tracked down what clips it can handle and which it can't. Any AVCHD that's 1440x1080, regardless of project settings, regardless of sound and sound settings, regardless of bitrate, is fine. Performance with AVCHD clips shot at 1440x1080 seems fine.
    Any clip shot in 1920x1080, slows PRE7 down to a crawl (usually). It becomes UNUSEABLE. You can import those AVCHD clips but you can't practically edit with them in the project, it simply can't render them and becomes a slideshow, again regardless of sound settings or bitrate or project settings.
    I have a quad core system, and on SOME projects, it will use all 4 cores to render the 1920 clips. Most projects it will not. When it does use all 4 cores to render it renders smoothly. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to "force" it to render using all 4 cores. Once I have a project saved that does this, it seems to always work, but I cannot figure out why it sometimes will only use 2 cores to render, and sometimes it will use all 4.
    The problem I have is with the Sony SR12, the max bitrate you can get with 1440x1080 clips is 9mbps. You get 16mbps with 1920x1080 clips. But it looks like I am forced into shooting 1440 whether i like it or not. It may not be so bad, I don't know how bad motion artifacting will be at that low bitrate with the SR12 at 1440 maybe it's ok, but 9mpbs seems low.
    I just wish PRE7 handled AVCHD clips that are 1920x1080 better. It seems it should, it handles avchd 1440 clips fine in any project.
    Seems like its a bug in the way it handles avchd that it would choke so hard on 1920 input, and perform so well with 1440 clips, from the same camcorder.

    I have used all project settings, and I have a sample clip from an SR10 as well and it also is very slow. It has to render it on playback, there is always a red line above the clips in the timeline since it doesn't handle AVCHD natively. I'm confused by your statement that you can load AVCHD files into PE7 and have it not render them, it renders all AVCHD clips regardless of project setting or resolution of the clip, unlike HDV which it can handle natively. I always see a red line above all my AVCHD clips in the timeline regardless of project settings or that clips resolution.
    Basically I do sometimes get smooth editing with 1920 clips but it seems almost random. If all 4 cores are utilized it plays back in the project smoothly, if not its a slide show. [edit] I found a way that appears to get all 4 cores in on timeline/sceneline rendering. If I bring up the windows task manager while its playing back the project, the 2 cores that were idle seem to kick in right away. I have no idea why they don't just kick in regardless, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I
    Perhaps some conflict with a codec pack is biting me? I'm tempted to get an old hard drive out, do a clean install on it, and see if it gets rid of the problem. It just doesn't want to use all 4 cores reliably unless I do the task manager thing.

  • AMD Bulldozer avchd editing

    anyone using a new FX- 8150 8 core cpu?
    Its time for me to upgrade. I currently Edit AVCHD footage, from Sony CX line of cameras and buring dvds using encore.
    I am looking for increased Performance when transcoding.
    Its the great debate, intel vs amd. I can read benchmaks all day but i am wondering if anyone has real world expirence with these new processors.

    HI Bill,
    We just got windows on it yesterday I am assuming its ready for benchmarking now..
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  • Difference between miniDV and AVCHD editing

    Hi.
    My main question here is that when I'm applying the slow motion effects on footages captured using my new flash-based camcorder, the video appears jerky. [Footages without slow motion appears clear]. Some background info below:
    I've been using Premier Elements 4 and recently version 7 to do all my video editing work. My old videocam used miniDV tapes and when working with these footages I can simply download the footages using Premier Elements using the PAL-DV project settings. I can work on the footages adding effects such as slow motion and the final DVD appears clear, smooth and fine.
    HOWEVER, I recently bought the new Canon HF11. When working with these footages, I select the PAL-AVCHD project settings. Almost all the final footages (output to DVD) appears very clear and smooth with the exception of the footages in slow motion - it appears very jerky.
    I thought that the jerkyness is caused when you choose the wrong project setting (ie. upper vs lower field first) - by choosing the PAL-AVCHD project setting, I would've thought that it should be fine.
    The way I'm able to get around this is to deinterlace the footages with the slow motion effect. My question is why do I need to deinterlace the footages when working with AVCHD, considering that I do not have to do this when working with footages from miniDV tapes? Am I doing something wrong or is this how AVCHD works (ie. have to de-interlace slow motion footages?)
    Just trying to understand how this whole AVCHD format works, etc. Thanks in advance.
    Regards,
    Stein

    Here's the specs of my camera:
    http://canon.com.au/products/digital_video_cameras/home/HF11_specs.aspx
    Looks like it's AVCHD at 25p (or 50i)
    I'm copying the files directly to the computer - ie. plug the camcorder to my PC, an external drive appears in Windows Exploer - I just copy the MTS files to my PC.
    I just did some more testing and even de-interlacing it doesn't fully fix the jerkyness of the final footages on DVD.

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