I'm looking to buy a new HDD camcorder. My computer is a Dimension XPS Pent 4 3.2GHz with 1G memory and a 128MB DDR ATI Radeon graphics card.
If I buy a HD camcorder for the future (as many have recommended here) and transfer into the computer to edit and record in SD onto a DVD, will my computer be able to handle the AVCHD files?
Should I just buy a HDD SD camcorder now (Panasonic SDR-H200) and upgrade later (in a couple of years) when I upgrade to a new computer?
Thanks in advance
slimoli
10-09-07, 11:02 AM
Your best choice is to buy a HD camcorder , keep the HD file for future editing when you get a more powerful PC and edit your HD footage downconverted to SD on your existing PC. Any HD camcorder can allow capture of a SD file even if the original footage is in HD. Shoot HD, edit SD and you will be fine with your PC.
I am using a PC similar to the one you have and a 20 minutes HD tape takes more than 5 hours to render with Ulead Videostudio 11. Downconverting the file to SD reduces the time to less than 1 hour.
Sergio
So when you transfer the file to the computer, it's AVCHD and in the computer you downconvert to SD to edit?
slimoli
10-09-07, 02:13 PM
So when you transfer the file to the computer, it's AVCHD and in the computer you downconvert to SD to edit?
Yes.
One last question:
How do you downconvert the ACVHD file to SD? I currently have Studio 9 on my computer. Do I have to upgrade to Ulead 11 or Studio 11 or is there another program that will do the downconverting?
Thanks
bigbarney
10-09-07, 05:14 PM
One last question:
How do you downconvert the ACVHD file to SD? I currently have Studio 9 on my computer. Do I have to upgrade to Ulead 11 or Studio 11 or is there another program that will do the downconverting?
Thanks
Yes... one of those 2 programs will do it. Studio 9 does not work in HD at all