AVCHD Users new help--Neo Scene

All you AVCHD users with processing problems maybe this is your inexpensive solution from CineForm.
"That's why I'm so excited about the new "NEO Scene" plug-in from CineForm. It allows you to edit HDV and more importantly AVCHD much more efficiently, without the need for a super fast computer. For $99 (intro special) you can add it to Adobe Premiere Pro or Sony Vegas and your editing of AVCHD footage becomes much smoother and easier. Hopefully well see CineForm add support for more applications in 2009, and perhaps we'll even see the software vendors integrate this type of technology directly into their products."
http://www.videoguys.com/cineform.html
And no, I am not connected with either firm. If you get this software plug-in and try it let us know your results.
I just read the fine print--CS4 support WILL be available second half of January 2009!!!

Seems great in theory, but it still doesn't offer an efficient editing workflow. You still need to transcode the AVCHD, or HDV files to Cineform AVI, which will take some time, and the resulting AVI files will be "larger than your source camera files," to quote Cineform directly. Sounds a lot like the free application that MainConcept offers for AVCHD transcoding, which in turn converts the video to DVCProHD, also a 4:2:2 video format.
So, unless you are doing some intensive color correction and can benefit from the added color space, AND you have the time to transcode all of your footage, I personally would rather invest in hardware which will allow me to edit the video formats natively. I have no problems what so ever editing native AVCHD in CS4 with bit rates 17mbps and lower. It's only when I attempt to edit footage shot in the 21mbps bit rate that it begins to react more sluggish, but in time that will improve within Premiere, just as it has with HDV.
You also have to remember, conversion does not equal acquisition. In otherwords, if you are shooting something in HDV, or AVCHD 4:2:0 and convert to a format like DVCPRoHD 4:2:2, you aren't all of a sudden going to have magical 4:2:2 image quality. The image is still 4:2:0, it's just now a file format that has 4:2:2 color space. It would be the same as shooting something in SD and then uprezzing to HD. Yeah, I now have a true HD image, but the video sure looks soft.

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After some discussion in a previous thread, it looks like Neo Scene would be a good addition to my AVCHD workflow in general. I've done some reading on Cineform's site, and it's clear that the first step is using their app to convert from AVCHD to Cineform AVI prior to editing in PPro. What I'm not sure about is output.
Does installing Neo Scene add that as a file format option when rendering in PPro via Adobe Media Encoder? While final output for most projects would be in the appropriate compressed format for web, DVD, etc., there may be times when I want to edit footage and render it out to Cineform so that I can use that footage in future HD projects.
In other words, their site seems to focus on getting it from the camera into Cineform format. Is that its only function, or can I render from PPro to Cineform as well?
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Will do. And maybe I need to get you down to Atlanta to build some sets for me. Or is that sort of thing beneath your pay grade?
What ? You want me to sweat bullets swinging a hammer ? !
hehe, kidding...
This might help you someday...
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Aw, c'mon James. Chill it a bit.
Yeah. You continually throw around your little personal jibes, and then if someone calls your bluff, you think you can back out of it with the old "can't you take a joke?" comeback.
In my previous work environment where everyone used Illie, Freehand was a word to be used cautiously – a bit like Macbeth in the theatre.
Well, I didn't work in your previous environment. And FreeHand specifically had nothing to do with this thread until you brought it up. Seems to me it's you who has a FreeHand chip on his shoulder.
I thought you knew my way of expressing myself better...
What, you think I keep a personality registry of regulars here or something? I'll tell you what I don't do: I don't engage in personal insults here. Yet your personal jibes are frequent enough for me to have grown weary of them.
I think I was not dismissing bounding boxes as useless...
Excuse me? "There's absolutely no need to use bounding boxes"?
You are probably right that bounding boxes came with Illie 9.
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I hopped straight from 6 to 9 and that was the first time I had seen them outside of Freewotever.
I'm not familiar with "Freewotever." But if you're again trying to be funny, you are also again revealing your near complete unfamiliarity with it. FreeHand is not the program that continually cluttered the interface with bounding boxes. In fact, for many years that is exactly one of the distractions FreeHand users complained about re Illustrator.
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...bearing in mind that I have been at this job since the days of Rotring pens with nosebleeds.
So? I was using Rapidographs and constructing compound rotation in isometric on the board for about a decade before I came to prefer Staedtler pens because I found them less prone to clog. What does that have to do with anything?
Obviously newcomers should be encouraged to use new features, but preferably not before they have grasped the basics thoroughly. How basic bounding boxes are is perhaps a moot point.
Nonsense. Other self-proclaimed "experts" in Illustrator would no doubt argue that bounding boxes were added for the benefit of "beginners." Again, this is not a "new feature." And yes, it is bare-bones basic; just implemented in a half-baked manner in Illustrator.
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