Panasonic HMC 150 and Vegas Pro 9 (AVHCD)

[Stephen Crye]

Lee, thanks for taking the time to write a thoughtful reply.

I agree that Vegas can be used, and although I have never tried to use my Vegas for that, I’m assuming that the raw files on the SD card are saved at the proper GoP boundaries and that there will be no audio or visual glitches at the seams between clips.

But, PMB does a lot more that just stitch together clips. It has a lossless, fast trimmer function that can be used to grab any section of the camera video (after it has been imported and “stitched” into PMB. The output of the trimmer can be greater than 2 GB. It also has a great frame-grab that will produce an image that is substantially larger than 1920×1080, also seems to combine interlaced frames. Not sure how it does it, but the resulting frame grab is far higher quality than the frame grabs that Vegas produces.

Finally, the stitched together clips are named using yyyymmddhhmmss.m2ts convention (this is the time the video was taken, not the time it was copied) – this is fabulous, and really helps organize things. One does not have to rely on the time stamp of the file(s), which can change on the computer.

I just don’t understand why Canon and Panny let Sony trump them on this. Surely they could write their own equivalent utility!

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T3400, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM Vegas 10e (and 11) x64 DVDA 5.2(build 133) Sony HDR-CX550V