Crunch -

This will be of no help to you, because I have similar issues... and your set up would leave my PC gasping for breath!

Do the video clips play correctly outside PD7 - in a separate AVCHD player?

Sorry - a million dollar question with a $1 answer but someone will have some good advice for you.

Cheers -

Tony
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This is the first post I have seen someone using level 5 profile. It is just possible that PD7 cannot cope with all that bitrate

PD8 needs to come sooner rather than later to deal with all the escalation in consumer product specs.

Crunch,
I've sent you a request for a sample of the video file and where to upload it. I think CyberLink will need the video to run a few tests.

many thanks

Dafydd

PD7 will not render anything above 14800 kbps. It is a real problem if you have good quality HD video.

I did find PD did have some stability after installing the ffdshow codec wrapper, you can download at:

http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDshow_download.htm

Well had some issues with my login here. Seems my old profile got upset about me trying to change Email address... As new user my username now CrunchMDK

Have sent off clip and details to "Dafydd"

To answer some other questions.

The file plays fine straight from camera on kids machine which is windows 7 RC with WMP 12. I was quite surprised at that.
Also plays fine on my machine in 'Super' build36. So need PD to use whatever Super is using as player.

No good in Qtime and WMP 11.0.6001.7000 jerky.

Not yet tried ffdshow

If you want to play with the file you can get the 10 second clip (64MB). This is straight 10 second clip recorded on camera, it is not cut from longer clip. Will leave link up for a few days. www.momdadkids.com/bits

I had a chance to test your file using Window Media Player Classic which comes from downloading the K-Lite Codec Pack (uses ffdshow codecs). The video is a little choppy, but the sound is fine. Using my C2D 2GHz laptop my CPU usage maxed at 15%, but was usually lower than that. I also tried playing the clip on VLC player and the video does not come in at all. VLC uses its own codecs and not ffdshow. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

Has anyone else tried my video file and had luck?
Currently via 'Super' I am downgrading the file to edit.

Been using two 'BluRay' setting options depending on where I am using video. 1280x720 and 1920x1088

SUPER © v2009.build.36 (June 10, 2009)
Multimedia Analysis Box by http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

Detailed Analysis of: zzzzzzz.M2TS

General ID : 1
Complete name : C:\Users\xxxx\Documents\My Video Projects\xx\zzzzzzz.M2TS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 58.4 MiB
Duration : 19s 561ms
Overall bit rate : 25.0 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps

Video ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 19s 561ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 23.7 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 24.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 088 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.472
Stream size : 55.2 MiB (94%)

Audio ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 19s 520ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 915 KiB (2%)

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SUPER © v2009.build.36 (June 10, 2009)
Multimedia Analysis Box by http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net

Detailed Analysis of: uuuu.M2TS

General ID : 1
Complete name : C:\Users\xxx\Documents\My Video Projects\xxxx\uuuu.M2TS
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : BluRay Video
File size : 35.3 MiB
Duration : 19s 561ms
Overall bit rate : 15.2 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps

Video ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@High-1440
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 19s 561ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 14.2 Mbps
Nominal bit rate : 24.0 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.641
Stream size : 33.0 MiB (93%)

Audio ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Duration : 19s 520ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 915 KiB (3%)