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Hi Randy,<br>
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If you don't mind spending money (and time to use a new program),
you could go for Adobe Premiere, which has native AVCHD editing
since CS4. However, you need a lot of hardware. I tried it on my
Win7 laptop with 4GB of RAM and got so annoyed by the choppy
real-time editing that I ended up transcoding everything to AVI. For
the latest version of Premiere (CS5.5) you also need a 64 bit
computer.<br>
<br>
Cinelerra CV, an open-source video editing program, is supposed to
have AVCHD support. I never used it, but you can download it for
free.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Rik<br>
<br>
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On 29/05/2011 14:16, Randy LaPolla wrote:
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:
12pt;">Hello,<br>
Before my recent fieldwork in NW Thailand I bought a Sony
SLT-A55V (a very high end digital SLR), and its paired mic
Sony ECM-CG50 (a directional mic that mounts on top of the
camera). I was told by the salesman that it would film for 29
minutes and then you could start again. It takes HD video of
amazing quality. It worked fine in the shop and in trials at
home, but in the village in Thailand it failed miserably,
overheating after only 5-7 minutes (it was about 33 C in the
shade). The manual does say that in 40 C it will only last 5
minutes, and the 29 minutes is only in 20 C, but the salesman
never mentioned that, and I wasn’t aware of it until after I
bought it. So one point of this message is to warn anyone
thinking of using an SLR for video to think again. (Btw, in
contrast a cheap Nikon Coolpix camera that we had had no
problem shooting 29 minute videos with clear sound in that
heat.)<br>
<br>
A second issue is the format Sony uses: I was warned about the
proprietary software and format that Sony uses, but assumed it
wouldn’t be a problem. Wrong again. The software they give you
for working with the videos does not work on a Mac, and the HD
files created seem to not be openable by any other software
currently available on my Mac other than VLC (which only is
for viewing, not editing). From a check of the Web it seems
iMovie’08 (which I don’t have) and certain other types of
software might be able to play them, or convert them, but
there are problems with some of them. Does anyone know what is
the best software for working with .MTS AVCHD files (ideally
without converting them, if possible)? (There is the choice to
create MP4, but I want to keep the HD quality if possible.)<br>
<br>
Thanks very much.<br>
<br>
Randy<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Randy
J. LaPolla, PhD FAHA<br>
Professor (Chair) of Linguistics<br>
La Trobe University<br>
VIC 3086 AUSTRALIA<br>
Tel.: +61 3 9479-6402 (RCLT) / 9479-2555 (Ling)<br>
FAX: +61 3 9467-3053 (RCLT) / 9479-1520 (Ling)<br>
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