Hi Rob -

AVCHD Lite is just the 720p variant of AVCHD, as I understand it. They both use the same MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression.

PD supports AVCHD.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Does Power Director 8 support AVCHD Lite found on an increasing number of compact stills cameras?

For sure the panasonic AVCHD-Lite.

Also samsung h.264 Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

Thanks for this. :

Its interesting because on a a few other bulletin boards, members write that AVCHD Lite is not compatible with other editing software such as Final Cut Pro, i Movie, I know these are Apple apps but before I go purchase a new camera I wanted to confirm Power Director 8 can handle the format.

Can PD8 handle RAW images?

I use PD8 with my .MTS files from my panasonic Zs3 without any problem.
(AVCHD Lite 720p)