My Videos Render Sowly with AVCHD

[John Rofrano]

Yes. AVCHD is challenging to render on the most powerful computers. If you look at the system requirements for Sony Vegas you’ll see it says “(2.8 GHz recommended for HDV and AVCHD)“. And they’re not kidding. A 1.59GHz processor isn’t anywhere near enough power.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Tony Archer]

I purchased a Quad core and 4 gig of ram, specifically to be able to render and work with AVCHD video, I would suggest you do the same. With that setup I am pleased with the render times (Of course I’m not working on 2 hour-long videos, but even so)

[Steve Rhoden]

Exactly John Carold,
As John Rofrano highlighted, your computer is way under-powered for
handling processing power efficiently. Especially ACVHD format which
is processing intensive.
If you are gonna want to continue editing your AVCHD without stress,
you need to upgrade accordingly, or if its out of your budget at the
moment, you can grab a copy of “AVCHD Upshift” over at ‘vasst.com’
to make editing it a bit more tolerable…its going for only $49.00

Steve Rhoden
Creative Director
TNX EFFECTS STUDIOS.
sample bits at
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[John Rofrano]

I don’t even think AVCHD UpShift will help because it turns AVCHD into HDV which still requires a minimum 2.8GHz processor. Not even GearShift will help because it will still take forever to create the DV proxies. All of these solutions are for people who don’t want to go dual core or quad core yet but this person doesn’t even have a single core capable of the job. He really needs a new PC for working with HD video.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com