Sadly Morgan - I think not. But it's not all bad - you're not in the boat alone.

Sorry - no help.

Tony
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Hi Morgan,

This has been covered before. The limitation is due to the AVCHD spec, but RD plans to change this in a later update release.

You can read more here. I will let you know once it is released.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/7484.page

Regards,

David

David,

Do you have any idea when the next patch will be released? Q9300 2.5 GHz
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Hi James,

I just asked RD and I was told that the AVCHD enhancements won't be included until GM3 now, due to the special parameters in the newer Canon AVCHD camcorders. They are still working with your samples to perfect it.

Unfortunately you'll have to wait longer, since GM3 is not scheduled for release until December.

Regards,
David

Hi Morgan,

I was misinformed. The ability to output AVCHD at 24mb/s will be available in the next patch release, which should be available within the next day or so.

Apologize for the misinformation. Good news it will be available sooner!

David

That is good news!

I had a chance to test the updated patch and try combining two clips recorded in the Canon AVCHD format. Although SVRT still did not work, I was able to rerender the clips at 24 MB/s as MPEG4 files. I tried playing the rendered files on Windows Media Player, VLC player, Splash Player, and in PD. I found that smoothest playback was on the Splash player, but I noticed a slight amount of distortion along the very bottom edge of my video. Splash uses NVIDIA pure video for hardware acceleration and converts interlaced video into progressive. I tried rendering these files with CUDA turned off in PD, but I got the same results.

In WMP and VLC there was no distortion along the bottom edge, but the video itself was interlaced and choppy. Neither one of those programs use hardware acceleration so that may explain the choppiness (although my CPU usage was only 34%).

In PD, the playback was smooth and looked fine for preview quality. Q9300 2.5 GHz
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Seems promising, but do I understand correctly.. When rendering 24Mbps AVCHD files, SVRT doesn't work, but when rendering 18Mbps it does?

Excellent information James - and great news about the patch Kudos for your part in providing clips for testing and communication with R&D.

Cheers - Tony
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I never tried 18 Mb/s with the recent update. It never worked for me with the previous versions. It may be a Cannon vs Sony issue, but that is purely a guess.

I do all my recording at 24 Mb/s AVCHD so I have no desire to encode at a lower bitrate unless I have good reason to. Q9300 2.5 GHz
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