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Can Adobe Premiere CS4 edit AVCHD from a Sony HDR SR1?
Can Adobe Premiere CS4 edit AVCHD from a Sony HDR SR1?
I have been wanting to edit the AVCHD video from my Sony HDR SR1 video cameras so bad for so long that I didn’t think it would happen until I was dead an in heaven. But, now Adobe says CS4 will edit it!!! So, I downloaded the trial and wahlah, it would NOT import it. I watched a video on Adobe.com and there it said it would edit it, it even showed an AVCHD preset that wasn’t in my trial. Confused, I called Adobe and one person said that the trial doesn’t allow you to import certain formats because adobe doesn’t want you to make a movie using the trial and then sell it and make money, for some reason. I think this is STUPID, this inhibits a viable way to enabling me to try the software, and even more obvious, it inhibits me from making money from the trial to buy the software, which I think is STUPID if Adobe wants people to buy their software they shouldn’t make it hard for them to legitimately make money and do this, duh!!!
So, I have no way of knowing before I buy the software if I can actually use it for what I’m wanting to do, edit AVCHD from my Sony HDR SR1 in CS4, can I ? Is there any problems that anyone knows of doing this? I have an awesome PC to do this on, very powerful, just need the right software!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Due to licensing issues the trial version lacks the ability to import or export any Mpeg variants like AVCHD.
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Over a year later this issue is still extant. I wanted to try out Premiere Pro CS4 with my new Canon VIXIA HF S11 to see whether or not it would work as advertised. The trial version does not come with the AVCHD presets that are shown in the Dave Helmley video.
I wonder if Apple’s Final Cut Studio is the better choice for me.
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For anyone still in doubt, Premiere CS4 does in fact work very well with AVCHD. I use CS4 both in WinXP and Vista (32bit) with a Canon Vixia HF20 and it works quite well. I just installed Win7 (64bit) and am excited to try it out. I have read there is a 250% performance increase when using a 64bit OS. But because of the lack of AVCHD support in the trial version, I too am frustrated. I have to deactivate my Adobe suite on Vista so I can test it out Win7.
Anyway, my system is an Intel Core2Duo 2.66GHz with 4GB RAM and nVidia8500GT video card and I can edit AVCHD without dropping frames. I do have dynamic quality playback so the quality drops most of the time but it doesn’t really tax my system on playback of the timeline.
Side note…when exporting an H.264 for playback on your computer or upload to YouTube or Facebook, definitely download VLC player to play the QuickTime files back. QuickTime player taxes the system heavily and does not play back at the full frame rate. VLC player plays perfectly, full res, full frame rate and has a very light load on the system.
-Matt
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