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Ulead & Early AVCHD Solution
Well, Ulead's Tobie Openshaw revealed something about Ulead's forthcoming -- early -- AVCHD support.
Question: Will Ulead software "Smart Render" AVCHD files?
Answer: No it won't AT THE MOMENT, because it will be transcoded to another
format. You can't create an AVCHD disc or write back to the camcorder. As soon as you make any edits your video will move outside of the AVCHD spec and you have to convert to the format of your choice - other than AVCHD. The most likely candidate with the least quality loss would be MPEG2-HD. So - yes, you can keep your AVCHD video in the HD realm and even burn it to an HD DVD, authored disc. It just won't be "AVCHD Video" anymore. But I emphasize again - this is the situation AT THE MOMENT. AVCHD is a very new format and we are constantly updating our capabilities on it.
Personally, I'm going to wait until the solutions for AVCHD mature to the point where one can maintain AVCHD source files in their pristine format and then be able to smart render them and then write them directly to high definition HD optical disc.
I'm in no hurry to go HD until that's possible.
Jerry Jones
Question: Will Ulead software "Smart Render" AVCHD files?
Answer: No it won't AT THE MOMENT, because it will be transcoded to another
format. You can't create an AVCHD disc or write back to the camcorder. As soon as you make any edits your video will move outside of the AVCHD spec and you have to convert to the format of your choice - other than AVCHD. The most likely candidate with the least quality loss would be MPEG2-HD. So - yes, you can keep your AVCHD video in the HD realm and even burn it to an HD DVD, authored disc. It just won't be "AVCHD Video" anymore. But I emphasize again - this is the situation AT THE MOMENT. AVCHD is a very new format and we are constantly updating our capabilities on it.
Personally, I'm going to wait until the solutions for AVCHD mature to the point where one can maintain AVCHD source files in their pristine format and then be able to smart render them and then write them directly to high definition HD optical disc.
I'm in no hurry to go HD until that's possible.
Jerry Jones
