Video Conversion / Editing Workflow Issues

[sanlyn]

Your "other capture" probably wasn't AVCHD, so you probably didn't have the same issues.

I was under the impression that if you set the Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 to record AVCHD .TS, that's what it records. I downsampled a relative's graduation video from BluRay disc to DVD. It looked just as clean.
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If that soaring bookshelf video is what real AVCHD looks and works like, I'll stick with other formats.

[poisondeathray]

Your "other capture" probably wasn't AVCHD, so you probably didn't have the same issues.

I was under the impression that if you set the Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 to record AVCHD .TS, that's what it records. I downsampled a relative's graduation video from BluRay disc to DVD. It looked just as clean.
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If that soaring bookshelf video is what real AVCHD looks and works like, I'll stick with the "other" BD and AVCHD formats. Better yet, I'm glad I didn't give in to impulse buying and sink money into any of the consumer HD cameras whose work I've seen here during the last year or so.

The bookshelf video is AVCHD, and yes, HDPVR records in AVCHD, but remember there are a wide variety of AVCHD implementations . Just like there are crappy MPEG2 encoders , there are good MPEG2 encoders as well . There are crappy h.264 encoders, and good ones as well.

Did you not understand the comments about bitrate and content differences ? That's the biggest difference

Even a pro XDCAM-HD422 50Mb/s recording will fall apart the way that bookshelf video was handled and lit . A pro videographer wouldn't be a pro for long if he did that . That video isn't necessarily representative of AVCHD in general i.e. I wouldn't make blanketed assumptions based on a few observations

[sanlyn]

I believe you, pdr, Slow down. I guess I'll have to put a laugh emoticon on my last post.

I think the zooming bookshelf vid was done that way on purpose, and a clever, calculated purpose at that. But...that's just MHO.

[Starbuck2010]

I'd be interested in the result of deinterlacing with DVDx 4.1 transcoder (free) because it uses yadif from FFMpeg and I always got good result with AVCHD camcorders:https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdx/files/4.1/4.1.1.0/


And you can cut/paste the FFmpeg command from DVDx 4 console and try other filters (kerndeint, mcdeint, w3fdif):
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html