Thread: Editing video

My camera (panasonic lumix FZ100) takes video in AVCHD format,


when I edit it with windows movie maker I lose the sound, Windows media player won't play the sound of the AVCHD files, VLC media player plays the sound but loses the video.



Is there a free editor that will handle AVCHD? Failing that, can I convert it to another format to edit without losing quality?

Have a read of this.

Get a free converter for AVCHD files -> .avi and you can continue to use the free Windows Movie Maker . It does mean converting the files twice (once to .avi, again when rendering the final clip) so if you've got a few clips to convert, select them and have it do it overnight. I'm not sure how crippled the free version is compared to buying the full pgm though.

I told you I have good software for editing videos. The offer is still there.

Have you tried videoredo, used to use it a few years ago, it handles mos format from memory,
Adode premier is good also

Originally Posted by Josh

I told you I have good software for editing videos. The offer is still there.

Your house is in a suburban maze (I'll come over some day)

Have you heard of bit torrents? Premier is ok, Sony Vegas is better. Final cut pro for Mac is just ok. Pinnacle do a good entry level one. But don't expect much from the free ones..................

I use Premier Pro CS5.5 (Editing), After Effects (Colour Correction), Magic Bullet Looks (Styles) and Twixter (Slow Motion sequences). All found with free trials online and easy to learn with tutorials on youtube.

Beware that you'll lose quite a lot of quality converting to .AVI (at least I did)

Originally Posted by Norway

Beware that you'll lose quite a lot of quality converting to .AVI (at least I did)

I find converting to mkv ( x264) give me the best balance of quality and size, I have also had good success with .avi (divx) but have had to tweak settings to optimise quality but needed more messing about.

I use handbrake these days for converting files, and imovie for editing videos.

Theres bucket loads of programs out there you can use, but handbrake seems to be good for me

Chris

Originally Posted by gimp

My camera (panasonic lumix FZ100) takes video in AVCHD format,


when I edit it with windows movie maker I lose the sound, Windows media player won't play the sound of the AVCHD files, VLC media player plays the sound but loses the video.



Is there a free editor that will handle AVCHD? Failing that, can I convert it to another format to edit without losing quality?

Hello, there are a lot of software to support these format conversion, I suggest you can try this software that I am using, can solve your problems, but this software is very powerful, supports many format conversionyou deserve, free download, free trial, the first trial, satisfied to buy, and the price is very cheap.
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I hope you can help you better

Buy an Apple and use the iMovie software that comes with it. Once you go Mac you never go back!

BAN ^^^^^^^

ifreak

Originally Posted by Pnumatix

Buy an Apple and use the iMovie software that comes with it. Once you go Mac you never go back!

Way ahead of you...

I just got the GOPRO3 Silver addition and am after some software also .The software that comes with the gopro I cannot understand and want something that is easy abc stuff .Is the MAC program easy to use ? I down loaded the AVI and will have a play with it also --help much appreciated