It is fast, accurate and has an unbeatable picture. All of the consumer editing programs I have tried for AVCHD are so bloody limited that someone with my background has a real hard time figuring our how to so the simplest things. Once the project is edited I can output in whatever format I want. I can send it back to HDV which is whet I archive my material in, and I can also output an SD version for DVD distribution and AVCHD version for distribution on conventional DVDs that play i9n HD on bluray players. @ 10 megs 60 minutes will go on a 4.7g disk. 2 hours will fit nicely on a dual layer disk. Rendering takes about 3 hours for a 60 minute production shot and edited in HDV. Now, if I had 60 minutes shot on AVCHD, take that time and multiply it by 3 and you get an idea how long it takes to render out from MPG4. Basic cuts takes less time, but if there are transitions and effects, this really drags the system down to a crawl. Another thing, I just happen to like tape
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