Software for AVCHD?

December 27, 2007 3:06 PM

Please recommend consumer level video editing software for working with AVCHD in Windows Vista.

My friend was using Pinnacle Studio 8 previously and was reasonably satisfied with it. He's now looking at v. 11 which supports AVCHD but is wondering what else is out there.

posted by sockpup to computers & internet (2 comments total)

Sony Vegas. There's probably an LE version of it, which'll be even cheaper. I use Vegas professionally, after having fought with Adobe Premiere for years. Hate Premiere, hate FCP, but Vegas is easy to use even for non-video-dweebs.

I've made departments switch to it, I've had advertising folks get it to check content correctly and professionally.

It's cheap.
It's easy for non-video-dweebs to use (not "learn" but "use").
It has all the under-the-hood coolness for me to do a ton of stuff for a ton of money (vector&waveform&histo and color/gamma/luma corrections and scripting and command line everything).
posted by lothar at 6:57 PM on December 27, 2007

Pretty much all the editors have either announced or shipped support for the PITA that AVCHD is.

Final Cut, Premiere, Avid, etc. You'll likely need the latest version.
posted by filmgeek at 6:43 PM on December 28, 2007