AVCHD tool

How would this be distributed?

Cost?

Implemented? (e.g. scripts for a third party product, plug-in, etc.)

Go for it i can´t wait your codecs are great!

Thanks in advance manu

 

keep liquid up and running

can this tool also transcode .mxf  hdcam 4:2:2

 thanks keep on your good work

Sometimes when I start editing I loose track of time and forget to call my wife. Could it please call her when I'm going to miss dinner? That would be great.

Thanks

mmyers:

Sometimes when I start editing I loose track of time and forget to call my wife. Could it please call her when I'm going to miss dinner? That would be great.

Thanks

I could make it send her flowers as well.

 

By the way this tool would be free for those who would like to know.

DropIn-Tv:

can this tool also transcode .mxf  hdcam 4:2:2

 thanks keep on your good work

 

This format doesn't already work in Liquid? or do you mean transcode XDCAM into 4:2:2?

Hi

what i mean is would it be possible to transcode XDCAM HD 1920x1080 into an liquid friendly .m2v one of your codecs ?

Because liquid only supports xdcam hd 1440x1080 over xrecieve or import!

 

Thanks manu

Yes, yes, yes, please.

That is GREAT!

I'm presently using some self-made Auto-IT scripts to convert the HF10 clips and to insert handles. very cumbersome!

would love to get that.

thanks for asking

Lembit

yep. sounds good

Hi Smetvid

you posted a wail ago that there might be an chance to capture in your codecs!?

Do you see an chance there? Would be great to capture over hd-sdi in one of your codecs they are all really good in quality and size 

 

respect and thanks for that

manu

I have been working on capture for a long time and I never could get it to be very stable.  There is a possibility to license a API that may make it work very well but it is expensive and I would have to charge for such a tool.  I'm not even 100% if that would even work well enough so as of right now sadly there are no plans for a capture tool.  I really wish I could do it but it just isn't possible right now.  There was once a chance to piggy back on the directshow version of the mpeg2 encoder that comes with Liquid.  There were two problems however.

1.  The encoder as we all know is single threaded which means it just isn't fast enough for realtime HD capture.

2.  The encoder only works if you have Liqid installed.  While this may be fine for most people it doesn't offer a perfect stand alone solution.

 

The other encoding API that is open source has no way of feeding through capture hardware and Directshow so I can't use that.  That is why the only way to do capture may be to use a commercial encoder which will not be cheap.  I will of course keep searching for a solution but after two years of searching I'm afraid it may never happen.  I'm sorry.

I voted for "Oh Yes!", but was dismayed to see that there were 0 votes for the "Pub" choice.  Are we all editors with no outside life?  A visit to a pub once in a while, whether accidentally through this forum or in real life, should enrich any video editor's life!

Oh, you mean THAT kind of Liquid.

 Actually, allthe folks who lurk here know where their local pub is, and would never make that mistake.

It's finding your way home after the visit to the pub that is the trick.

As the saying goes, I was doing OK finding my way hiome, until someone stepped on my hand .

By the way I wonder if the person who voted for "What is AVCHD" was spending a bit too much time at the pub.

Sounds good to me.  Would find it very useful

Since I voted, I've had a couple of occasions where I had very practical need for this tool.

the latest I shot the opening of a new medical facility but didn't get the actual ribbon cutting. Not a problem, a person videotaping for the facility shot it. I give him a call and he sends me an SDHC card. Guess what format? Rather than using the AVCHD > P2 > XSend > rerender method I instead used Microsoft's Expression Encoder to output a 1440x720 WMV file which, surprisingly, imported fine. Some obvious desegregation and very slow but it did work.

I'm serously thinking about buying one of Panasonic's prosumer AVCHD cameras for personal use. I'd love to keep Liquid going.

I personally have switched 100% to AVCHD and tapeless opting to keep only one HDV camera around for awhile to convert all my HDV to digital files then it will go also.  We are now telling our clients we only deliver in DVD or BluRay even our "shoot and ship" clients and we offer them free conversion software from Panasonic on the data disc that converts the material to DVCProHD.  Oh and as the latter infers, we only shoot in HD widescreen; if they want elstwise (ooouuuu, i like that word) they can get someone else cuz the hassle of working with tape has taken use over the edge.

If anyone wants our workflow just give us a shout and we'll advise thusly.  And if Smetved has a plan on how to get AVCHD into Liquid I'd love to see it especially if it was inclusive in Liquid instead of the converter way and/or more control features.

Voting is closed, do we have a verdict? Enough people? Enough interest? Still a commitment?

See the 8/19/2009 post. Sounds dead until something significant changes.

Oh well, hoped there had been an inspiration in the meantime.......

The post on 8/19 was a response to somebody asking me about a capture program to capture high bitrate "mpeg2" video from a uncompressed capture card.  That response had in no way any relation to AVCHD support.  It was an off topic post responding to an off topic question.

Then the question stands. AVCHD is Liquid's bête noire. With a solution it has a second life. Without? Well..........................not good.