I have a camera (Panasonic Lumix GF-1) that outputs 'AVCHD Lite' files, 720p h264 in a MTS container. I saw that said Movie Maker in Windows 7 supports AVCHD.but I just tried, and unfortunately it does not support AVCHD Lite. Are there any free or inexpensive non-linear video editors (NLE) that can natively handle AVCHD Lite files, without requiring some 3rd party driver? If not, are there any 3rd party drivers that are especially stable? (In my experience they usually have some problems.I got AVCHD Lite loading into VirtualDub using a 3rd party plugin, but it's very slow and sometimes crashes, and seeking takes ages. Adobe Premiere Elements 8 supports it.
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It's lowish cost and you can do a a 30 day evaluation if you want to test it first. I'm using it to edit Panasonic TZ7 videos (AVCHD Lite). Note that there is no difference in the actual files of AVCHD vs AVCHD Lite - it simply defines the resolution and framerate. EDIT: I was doing some more editing last night and I've found a cheaper solution which seems to work very well: This is about half the price of Premiere Elements, and although not as fully featured, it seems much easier to use.
I didn't even need to press the help key to achive everything I wanted. It seems it can also upload directly to YouTube if you want it to and I noticed no quality loss on the edited video when saving in 'HD Video 720p' DivX format.
There's a list of more editing software here. The best codec I've found so far for AVCHD is CoreAVC. It's not free, but it's quite cheap ($13), and it correctly interprets more AVCHD files than any other codec I've found (including ones that come with very software packages like Sony Vegas, Ulead Video Studio, etc.). A pretty-good one that's free is ffdshow-tryouts:.
You'll have to try it out on your camera's videos to see if it works. If your camera encodes the videos as true 720p frames, it should be fine. If your camera plays dirty tricks with interlacing the progressive content, then you may need to use CoreAVC.
If you'll be doing any non-trivial amount of editing, you might want to first transcode to a another format like huffyuv, mpeg1, or mpeg2 (all supplied with ffdshow-tryouts), using very high compression settings. It'll look awful but be fast for seeking. Create the edit list with the highly compressed video, then process the original when you're ready. If you like a basic GUI that's very robust, VirtualDub (virtualdub.org) is great. Adobe Premiere is a nice product if you really need the more advanced features it offers. If you prefer command-line tools, check out mencoder and/or ffmpeg. I think that VirtualDub is good, it just need a lot of time to understand all the options:-D Make sure you have the last version of VirtualDub: 1.9.10 - You can follow this guide: Altough the guide is for linux, you can just ignore the linux commands and execute the operations with the graphical interface of the programs (TsRemux and mkvtoolnix).
To detect the fps I suggest using MediaInfo instead of MPlayer. At the end you have an.mkv file that can be opened in VirtualDub, with this process you lost some time but less than a re-encoding. – Dec 19 '10 at 2:52.
AVCHD( Advanced Video Coding HD) A high-definition AVC video format for camcorders created by Sony and Panasonic that debuted in 2006. Designed to replace DV magnetic tape recording, AVCHD camcorders store video on hard drives or flash memory and come in consumer, prosumer and professional models. Although based on the Blu-ray format, which supports menu navigation and subtitles, not all Blu-ray players can play back an AVCHD movie. If they do, they may play only lower-resolution videos up to 17 Mbps (the highest AVCHD bit rate is 24 Mbps).
AVCHD movies use the MPEG-2 Transport Stream (MTS) file extension. Audio and Video Resolutions AVCHD uses interframe coding in the H.264/AVC video format, 5.1-channel Dolby AC-3 audio (64-640 Kbps) and 7.1-channel linear PCM audio. Camcorders support several H.264 resolutions and frame rates, which include 1920x1080 and 1440x1080 (60i, 50i, 24p); 1280x720 (60p, 50p, 24p); 1280x720x30p (AVCHD Lite); 720x480x60i and 720x576x50i. AVCHD also supports the xvYCC color space (see ).
Professional Camcorder Sony offers a full line of AVCHD camcorders from consumer to professional such as this HDR-AX2000. It records 24 fps and has XLR sockets for plugging in studio-quality microphones. (Image courtesy of Sony Corporation.) Consumer Model Panasonic camcorders run the gamut from entry level to professional.
Although this low-cost HC-X900M was designed for the masses, it includes a LEICA lens. (Image courtesy of Panasonic Corporation of North America.) Want to thank TFD for its existence?, add a link to this page, or visit. Link to this page.