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Best AVCHD editing package for me?

Hi,

I've just got myself a Panasonic HDC-SD10 and need a decent editing package. On my old non-HD camcorder, I used Windows Movie Maker, which was simple enough and did everything I needed. I tried the Windows Live version of the same program, but it was slow and jerky, and didn't have a timeline like the old program. I also tried the software that came with the camcorder. It plays clips smoothly, but it's not very good.

Basically I'm looking for a user-friendly system that will run smoothly on my laptop (which is a few years old now). I don't necessarily need millions of fancy features, although a step up from Windows Movie Maker would be nice. I'd also like to be able to burn DVDs from the same piece of software.

Here is the spec of my laptop:

Intel Core Duo - 1.87Ghz

1GB RAM

60GB hard drive

Windows Vista

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You are not going to get one, your computer it far too underpowered, you will need at least 4gb ram, probably a faster CPU, if you look at any of the editing packages system requirements you will see what the minimum is, you could have a look here to see if there is anything that will run on your laptop,

    Editors

    http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-edit...

    converters

    http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/all-in-one...

    but I think you are going to end up with loads of issues, such as sync picture/audio. you best bet as you are going to put the video onto a DVD as you cannot put high definition on DVD is to convert it to a standard format, such as MPG, then edit it that way.

    The only way to get HD onto a disk is to use blue ray, if you try to do that your laptop is going to cough and die, far to much work for it.

    RR

    Source(s): Camera man
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    AVCHD from canon, sony, panasoinc etc can not be import to video editor directly, often ,,,,you need to convert it to common formats like mov, avi,wmv, mp4 etc, in order to get the best quality etc,,,,,i just know a good helper, with it, you no any problem edit you video on any editor and import to burn dvd with handbreak etc freely,,,,,,,it also can edit video through merge, crop, split, cut, trim, apply effetc. snapshot ,,,,etc freely

    http://www.iorgsoft.com/article/avchd/Import-avchd...

    hope it help

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