[Bill Mash]

Q:If there is not much of a difference then why would one ever record AVCHD higher than 16 Mbps in the first place?

Best Reason = Tracks with a lot of motion benefit noticeably from a higher bitrate the better the noticeable results. It’s even more relevant when you use velocity envelopes.

A Reason = Because you can and there is a perception of a higher production value with higher bitrates.

[Bill Mash]

It took a few years for the benefits of a tape-less workflow in AVCHD to be realized in the prosumer space in performance and quality output. As soon as it did I dumped my aging GL2 for an HF10 and will be upgrading to Panasonic AVCCAM shortly.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

I take a more granular, yet similar approach…

Storyboard and break my project into chapters.
Create a main folder named for the project.
Create Subfolders with content by chapter, including parsing by type (pics, video, voice-over, sound-effects).
Create a separate Veggie file associated with each chapter/sub-folder.

By design this approach categorizes content and makes it easier to find. It also eliminates the possibility of mistakenly reusing content. It’s also proved invaluable in flushing out and improving my story as I do the work of segregating the material.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

Call two friends with a car

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

If I drop a 720X480 picture onto my 1920X1080 timeline with default settings, perform a screen shot, open in my PSP, crop the alpha at the edges I get 1616X1080. This is the same aspect ratio that I started with. What you describe is nonsensical to me as I have never experienced the problem you describe with media set to lock-aspect-ratio.

I’m also confused as to WHY your speaking about a HD aspect ration only to describe cropping the image to 480 in height. If what your REALLY looking for is a widescreen look 16X9 gives you the key… for every 16 wide it’s 9 tall.

160 90
320 180
480 270
640 360
800 450
853.33 480
960 540
1120 630
1280 720
1440 810
1600 900
1760 990
1920 1080

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

I played around with the trimmer more on my last project when I had lengthy clips that were well suited for subclips. It also use it quite a bit to select either Audio/Video followed by insert from cursor to timeline. Like many in this thread I saw no need, yet the more I use it the more valuable it becomes.

The biggest wall to using the trimmer more is the inability to set the quality of the display so I can play my AVCHD files without stuttering.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

I personally wouldn’t render 400-pictures where each and every one was on the screen the same amount of time. Be creative once you get them on the timeline and mix things up a bit.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

I used this trick once, ahhhh the fond memory.

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

Perhaps you can get VLC to enter the NLE business. While your waiting for that shoe to drop, chill-out and use Vegas:-)

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

[Bill Mash]

Download an older version of quicktime, aka the one that is stated as the minimum required revision in the version 10 release note.

Running ver 8.c requires me to have 7.1.6 on my system, version 10 has the same minimum requirement, 7.1.6

https://support.apple.com/downloads/QuickTime_7_1_6_for_Windows

Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.