Converting AVCHD footage

[Foster Kane]

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I have some footage from my Cannon HF 200 which uses a 32 SDHC card.

The footage is now an external drive in the MTS format and my Adobe Premiere 8 is also on that same drive. I am looking at this program called AVCH converter but unsure if it is any good and I have been told that something called a video splitter would also work. I have tried other trial converters but the results are unsatisfactory.

I just want to convert the footage into a format where the video does not skip. All help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Huy Vu]

Well, AVCHD is an interframe compressed format which requires a lot of processing power. The only real way to edit it in real time is to get better hardware or to do a preview render of file in Premiere during ediitng. Also getting the footage off the external and into an internal SATA drive might also help. There's no other converter out there right now for Premiere that would make this task easier.

 

[Foster Kane]

Well, AVCHD is an interframe compressed format which requires a lot of processing power. The only real way to edit it in real time is to get better hardware or to do a preview render of file in Premiere during ediitng. Also getting the footage off the external and into an internal SATA drive might also help. There's no other converter out there right now for Premiere that would make this task easier.

I really appreciate you responding to my questions and to make things more interesting, I have some more for you. Please be gentle.:violin:


Upon I opening up an MTS files, a window popped up asking what program do I want to use to open the files and I chose Windows Media player. It is still an MTS file but will this have any effect during the conversion process?

You said that there is no software for Premiere that would make the taks easier but what about the following programs?




http://www.newbluefx.com/avchd-upshift.html



http://www.koyotesoft.com

 

[zeroblank]

Adobe media encoder works to convert the footage, There is also a program called "avs4you" which can handle AVCHD however you will loose some quality working with it.