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Avid pinnacle studio 15 trial11/12/2022 ![]() ![]() What sort of time is involved for each minute of video? What type of processor and ram does that machine have? Are you using AVCHD files from a canon camera? I've heard it said that Panasonic and Sony agreed to the standard, but their implementation differs. You say that you're using your laptop workstation to do the job and that the time issue is not so bad. It certainly has a strong following on this forum. I did buy the full retail package, however, so if the time issue could be resolved I might use the program. Besides, maintaining an internet connection involves an unwarranted hit on system resources. For security and machine safety reasons, I am loathe to have regular working machines connected to the internet. Part of the reason I was using the 1.85 GHz x2 computer was that TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress requires internet access - apparently at each startup. To be sure, the computer I was using for the test was a 1.85 GHz dual core machine. However, extrapolating the time spent for the test file - to account for the 30 minute or so files I will be using, gave processing time in the order of days. Thank you for the information! I used the trial of TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress and it seemed to work. Of course, even sweeter would be native support. It seems to me so logical, however, that since Avid / Pinnacle advertises AVCHD support in Studio 12 and since Avid owns or controls Pinnacle, Avid / Pinnacle is in the best position to come up with a workable solution. Any advice from Pinnacle / Avid on that count would be appreciated. My unrant is that wouldn't it be sweet if Pinnacle Studio 12 ultimate could export AVCHD stuff in a format that was importable into MC? Maybe it can. As I understand it, Premier can export in the format that MC enjoys. If that doesn't work, my next plan is to get Premier and import the video via HDMI using my blackmagic card. I tried Sony Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack, which at first seemed like a piece of cr#p, but after reading an article holds some promise. Maybe tonight I'll have the answer, because I'm trying something new. but then, there's a lot of things I should be doing. someone's digging or, whatever, and hits a power line. ![]() In one case, with TMPGenc 4.0, it looked like rendering time for each clip might be as long as three weeks (yeah, yeah. What really suxxs, is that each test takes soooooooo much time. Though those solutions sometimes brought me tantalizingly close to the grail, I have yet to arrive. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again. Various members of the forum have proposed solutions. My quest for the holy grail is to import material from those cameras into MC 3.5 for use in a multicam setup. This I will playfully call an "unrant." I purchased two ACVHD cameras for reasons mentioned on a previous post. Sony and Panasonic supposedly created the format jointly, but both have different implementations.Ĭurrently there are a variety of ways to work with AVCHD if it's necessary, but they will require additional steps. Also it's another of those not-really-a-format formats. I imagine that AVCHD support will arrive in time (perhaps AMA will help in that?) but it's a complex format and can be quite demanding on system resources. I would much rather have a camera costing $1,000 destroyed than one costing $3-4,000. Since I am physically distant from 2-3 of the multicam cameras, often in an auditorium, they are subject to theft or damage. I can get a decent ACHVD camera that can record for 3 hours unattended for under $1,000. My problem is that I work solo and have become addicted to multicam stuff. Right now that appears to be TEMPenc 4.0 and MainConcept 1.1. I am offering the foregoing thought simply because I think most of us are just looking for the best possible solution. But still, presumably no one knows MC better than Avid and, therefore, Avid / Pinnacle is in the best possible position of anyone to make a suitable AVCHD "front end" to Avid. ![]() True, in fairness to Pinnacle, I am a newby and maybe I was doing things wrong. I purchased Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate figuring that since that line was owned by Avid and since Pinnacle advertises AVCHD compatibility, I could use Pinnacle as a "front end" for Avid MC. I have heard it said that AVCHD is a consumer approach as opposed to a professional one and, hence, it is not suitable for inclusion as part of MC's feature set (at this time). OK, I have made that "feature request," but I whole-heartedly agree and would add in my two cents here. The more flexible MC is the less I have to hear about that other program and what it does that MC doesn't. This may be considered a "feature request" but I'll put my vote in for it. ![]()
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