AVCHD Converter

[GrassValley_CP]

There is also our newest product, the ADVC-HD50, which is an HDMI to HDV hardware converter. It will let you get around the issue of AVCHD compatibility by letting you play the AVCHD clips off of the camera's hard drive or optical disk and transmit it to EDIUS as HDV via firewire.

[UlfLaursen]

Thanks both of you - I'll test myself when I com arround a camera.

/Ulf

[Ron Evans]

Do a search on this forum for AVCHD and you will get a lot of threads. I have found it easier to use Elecard converter to HDV and then edit in HDV. Takes about 2.5 times realtime on my AMD X2 4200 dual core ( slow by todays standards!!!) but was about 3 times faster than the AVCHD converter and of course did not take up as much disc space after conversion as does HQ files. So it is actually a lot slower than capturing from tape which ever way you convert!!!!!! Will get my new PC in a few weeks so will then see how a quad core does. I am getting a Q9450 and Gigabyte DQ6 board which should be about 4 times faster than my present setup and this may make all the difference to using AVCHD.

Ron Evans

[vienna1944er]

it is slower than capture time......

10min AVCHD Clip convert to HQfine = 20min \ 25min time to convert.....

only faster way is per HDMI over "Pegasus" ... in this way it is 1:1

greetings from europe\austria\vienna ....old (but not dead) Hans ...
(with Sony AVCHD SR11)

[UlfLaursen]

Hi

Has anybody tried the AVCHD converter tool that comes with Edius, and maybe have some perform. result on certain hardware?

For now I have only found some very tiny clips that I think will not give a very good picture. I hope to be able to test a Canon HF10/HF100 soon.

Will it be quicker to convert 1 hrs. AVCHD on a decent dual or quadcore that to capture 1 hrs. HDV f.example?

Thanks.

/Ulf