I will be content if S12 adds the ability to burn HD videos to real Blu-Ray disc media with menus, fixes bugs in prior versions, and still works on a 2.4 ghz core 2 duo. Otherwise, I'll have to flip. The bugs in S11 that cause most trouble are the occasional ''silent'' DVDs owing to some glitch in the sound format specifications, plus the ...

Marc P. writes that ''more possibilities will be made available in 2008. IMHO the end of the media war will be the start of the new generation of HD playback, capture and authoring.'' How splendid if true.  However, please keep the key advancements (BD discs with menus) within the processing capacity of a core 2 duo.  A quad core ...

Studio allows for export of AVCHD source material to numerous formats and custom specifications other than h.264 AVCHD.  For exports to AVCHD, the only present option is to create the disk image, whose bitrate and pixel specifications can be customized only a little. Nero 7 already allowed for export to numerous AVCHD alternatives, even the ...

  Ian S writes that, ''Using DVD dual layer blanks, high definition video compatible with Blu-ray players lasting over an hour are easily achievable.''   I created a 7 GB, 9mbps, 1440x1080i AVCHD disk image which plays back fine via a media player on the PC.  But Studio will not allow me to burn it to a DVD-DL-W or ...

I recently assembled about 200 30fps 640x480 MPEG1-VX clips into a video.  The clips were generally between 3mb and 10 mb apiece.  Only a few were over 20mb.  After about 30 clips were on the board, it began to take about 15 seconds to add each additional clip.  I had to click the desired clip, and then wait 15 seconds or ...

Reply to Mr. Koehler: I bought Nero 7 a year ago and installed it on a 2.39 GHZ mono P4, but later learned that AVCHD needs more CPU and graphics ''umph.'' When I bought a faster core 2 duo PC, I first tried Roxio's Easy Media Creator 10, because it claimed to support h.264. However, I quickly found out it could not import AVCHD, so back ...

1) ''Retarded'' transitions: These have never obstructed my work. The most common transitions are probably the fade and the cross fade. These are right at the top of the options I see on S 11.11. Studio provides a lot of others, which I seldom or never use, but I do not begrudge them and recognize cases where they could be cute for some ...

PS 11.12 can burn an AVCHD format video to a normal DVD disk which plays back on a Blu Ray player or PS3.  However, the qualify of that video will not be high definition unless the source video (whether AVI, MPEG2, or AVCHD) was in that format and edited as high definition.  Of course, even though the disc is the same medium as one ...

Studio 11.1 does handle m2ts files, but best with a system that has a fast core 2 duo or quad CPU and a top grade dedicated graphics card.  Slower systems require workarounds of the sort described by the prior poster.  

Every 90 days or so, the manufacturers roll out new models or options.  Procrastination rewards the person who cannot make up their mind.  I bought a Sony FZ-190 last September, but would probably have been better off waiting two months for the FZ-290. Don't bite on any 2008 offers if they do not include: quad core processing, ...