Panasonic AVCHD

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Panasonic AVCHD

Posted by Roger Read on May 9, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Having just upgraded my camcorder to a Panasonic HD model, I note with horror that, according to the Vegas site, Vegas Pro 8 does not support Panasonic AVCHD files. (I have not yet tried to see if this is true)

Does anyone know of a work-around?

The camcorder came with a trial version of Pinnacle Studio Plus (spit!), so can I import using that, then re-import from there into Vegas for editing? I don’t want to have to buy the full version of Studio just to import if I can help it, as I gave up on it some time ago in favour of Vegas.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Sebastien Gravel replied 17 years ago 6 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Allen Zagel
May 10, 2009 at 12:28 pm

Hi Roger

What you’ll need to get AVCHD files into Vegas is Upshift from Vasst.

https://www.vasst.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=134&category_id=9&manufacturer_id=2&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=66

Make sure you get the entire link. Otherwise just go to https://www.vasst.com and click on Software. scroll down a bit till you see it.

Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
http://www.asxvideo.com
NEW DVD – Europe, Trains-n-Trams
John Rofrano
May 10, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Hi Allen, When you make your post, there is an icon above the edit box with a blue ‘L’ that is underlined. That will make a hyper-link from the selected text. So in your previous post, you could have typed VASST Upshift, then highlighted it and pressed L and then replace the part that’s between the single quotes in href=’xxxxx’ with the actual link. This would avoid the long link you posted. 😉

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
Sebastien Gravel
May 10, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Well, Vegas 9 Pro has “Comprehensive AVCHD and HDV Support”. Not sure what the comprehensive really mean… Hopefully it will support AVCHD natively since I’m looking into the HMC150.

I’m on it like a fat kid on a twinkie
Gilles Pialat
May 10, 2009 at 8:41 pm

Vegas Pro 8 support Panasonic AVHD files.
Make sure to have the last update: 8.0c
John Frey
May 10, 2009 at 11:05 pm

I shoot AVCHD with Panasonic cameras. Vegas 8.0c handles it fine on my fastest workstations – Vista 64bit, Quadcore, 8GB ram, internal Raid 0 drive arrays. Hopefully, the upcoming Vegas 9 will do even better!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore
Allen Zagel
May 11, 2009 at 1:10 am

Thanks JohnR Didn’t know that as long as I’ve been here! 😉

Thanks
Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
http://www.asxvideo.com
NEW DVD – Europe, Trains-n-Trams
Roger Read
May 11, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Thanks everyone for your input.

I have upgraded to 8.0c, and everything is now working well.
Sebastien Gravel
May 12, 2009 at 12:45 am

I just went to a presentation from Panasonic featuring the HMC150 which records to AVCHD. With a lower bitrate, AVCHD has a better image than HDV. So at 17-18Mbps it would actually be superior to the HDV at 25. The HMC150 goes to 21Mbps under certain settings.

I’m on it like a fat kid on a twinkie

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