Worse, the AVCHD conversion feature in Toast 10 DOES NOT WORK. The company came out with a 10.0.2 fix release five months later but much is still broken. ![]() ![]() UPDATE 2009: The Toast 10 product has been riddled with bugs (defects). You do lose some quality (but not very much that most people would actually notice) by re-encoding into HDV. Toast can import your AVCHD files directly from the camera and then re-encode into HDV file format. Toast 10 from Roxio is the only product that has successfully done the transcoding from AVCHD to HDV (for me). If you do not need to merge with HDV footage, then you will not want to do this at all! If you must edit both original AVCHD video and HDV video into a single time line and do not want to spend lots of time rendering video clips from AIC into your HDV timeline, then it may be useful to convert AVCHD direct to HDV. You can now edit copy your clips direct to the time line, edit as much as you want. Set your timeline sequence encoding to the Apple Intermediate Codec. ![]() If you wish to edit in older versions of Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro, you can import the Quicktime. If you want, you can then edit in iMovie. ![]() The easiest way to deal with AVCHD is to let iMovie (latest version) import and transcode to the Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC). I do nearly all of my video editing now on a Mac so this post is about processing AVCHD files on the Mac.
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