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I have just purchased a new Sony HDD Handycam. Please can anyone suggest a editing sofeware that I can use to edit this format (AVCHD) has the ones I have will not open, import and let me edit the work I have done recently.
Many Thanks for any help given.

Gary

Which Sony is it. I have the HVR-A1E and use Adobe Production Studio. Mind you that was bought for me and tends to be a little expensive. I thought the Sony came with Vegas which, I gather although have not used, is good software.

Its a Sony HDV SR7E

Adobe Premiere Pro

I bought a macbook recently to do my editting on, as when I was watching the guys at the apple store they made it look soooo easy using final cut pro, needless to say, the macbook is still in the box heheh, which is a shame since its got a better spec than my new PC laptop.

Currently use Vegas for half the stuff and Abobe Premier for the other half

Hi Gary

You can use HD writer which usualy comes with AVCHD camcorders, but it's rubbish when used for editing.

The only other editing software you can use is Pinnacle studio 11 pro, but you may not be able to output HD content, unless you have a blu ray burner. Outputting to DVD (mpeg2) or AVI still gives realy clear and crips footage.

The other software you can use is Nero 7 ultra which has nero vision 4 as part of the package, this lets you output HD content as files or disc but you may need a lot of RAM, 2GIG is best.

Adobe premiere 3 will not read mt2s files, and neither will alot of other software, it's because AVCHD is so new.

Hope that's helped you.

James

Thanks to everyone so far who has offered me some advice, I have found a software which converts AVCHD into a DV format so it can be opened in any audio/video editing application, but I am not sure if there maybe a lost of quality.