Could this PC handle AVCHD?

[Jeremy Rasnic]

It can, but you may experience lagging preview while working https://www.vasst.com/product.aspx?id=bf3e2d5a-7c2e-4969-a8dd-7cee2cefba30“ TARGET=_blank>AVCHD Upshift from Vasst and NewBlueFX. It will convert the files to the easier to handle M2T format and allow you to have control over bitrate and keyframes.

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[John Rofrano]

What Jeremy is basically saying is that no PC can handle AVCHD because of it’s compression algorithm (so don’t feel bad). I would plan to work in another format that is more CPU friendly and save yourself a lot of headaches.

~jr

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[Paul Gregory]

I have never heard of M2T format before. I there a quality loss in converting to this format & how does the files sizes compare?

Thanks in advance

[John Rofrano]

M2T stands for MPEG-2 Transport Stream and it is a container for several codecs. I believe what Jeremy is suggesting is that you re-encode the AVCHD as HDV because AVCHD compression is too hard for PC’s to decode (not that HDV is that much lighter weight but HD in general is a challenge to decode so every little bit helps).

You are correct that any conversion can incur quality loss but HDV is as good or better quality than AVCHD so the loss will be minimal. The filesize will be larger because HDV uses less compression. You are trading filesize for ease of decoding and smoother playback.

~jr

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