Choosing a Panasonic for Low-budget HD films

To edit it nativly you do need CS4.

If you don't want to upgrade (The interface is almst identical), then you can transocde your footage to DVCpro
 
Smifis said:
To edit it nativly you do need CS4.

If you don't want to upgrade (The interface is almst identical), then you can transocde your footage to DVCpro
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so if i was using cs4, I can throw the footage straight off the cam and start editing, no hassle no fuss?

*Do you need a dedicated firewire port to transfer the footage or can it go through a USB port on the comp?
 
Firewire and AVCHD don't go together.

You copy the files from the camera via USB, or with a card reader.

So you do not need a firewire card but it's usefull if you end up get a HDV camera and it's only an extra £15 so why bother not putting one there?
 
Smifis said:
Firewire and AVCHD don't go together.

You copy the files from the camera via USB, or with a card reader.

So you do not need a firewire card but it's usefull if you end up get a HDV camera and it's only an extra £15 so why bother not putting one there?
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Cheers for the info, you're a big help. Granted im new to all this....

So cs4 is what i need to go with the hmc151, and ill have HD footage and no fuss?
 
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probably. Just a case of buying it when i fulyl decide
 
I fail to understand how people can keep saying that Premiere can edit AVCHD natively??? Yes you can get it on your timeline, but as soon as you do anything to the footage you will have to render.
 
Grass Valley recently released EDIUS Neo 2 with AVCHD Booster that can edit native AVCHD in realtime. If you want to use Premiere, transcode the AVCHD with something like Cineform NeoScene. It's fairly painless.
 
I can do transistions but i cannont color correct without rendering, but thats the same as SD video.

REndering isn't exactly time consuming on an i7 prosessor.

Are you saying you can add filters and do color correction with normal SD footage and not get a red render bar?
 
In Premiere yes on most SD stuff. But I use Edius most of the time so I rarely have to any rendering. I thought Premiere would do the AVCHD footage since they advertise so much about being able to do it. Imagine my disappointment when the least little thing needed rendering. It really was useless for real world editing. It saved me no time at all from transcoding. I have a very powerful i7 system from edithd.com http://www.edithd.com/series_extream.html Basically their high end system shown there.
 
It depends on your editing style i suppose.

Transcoding never bothered me as i would do that overnight but having native support is a bonus on the power bill more than anything =]

So lets say, you can do editing without color correction and most transitions without the need to render every 5 mins.
 
I can edit AVCHD in Sony Vegas 9.0b just fine, performing color correction and adding multiple effects without rendering. I get a crash about every 12 hours (would probably help if I rendered once in a while), but I haven't lost any edits yet. Could also edit in Premier CS3, but all it wanted to do was crash - my understanding is that CS4 is much more stable. Not fond of Premier anyway, though Vegas' interface is borderline cartoonish.
 
It's all down to your preference.

There is not "best" editor out there, just use whatr you like.
 
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