@ simsaladzimbamba you are missing the point Instead of challenging me you need to focus your attention on demanding apple support AVCHD. Stop the lies about it not being editable or you need a super computer to edit .I edited AVCHD fine on a pentium 4 with 1 gb of RAM about 5 years ago yes it took a little longer but it worked perfectlly. The Intel processors in MAC today are maybe 10 times faster so it is not the hardware and neither the software cause there are expert programmers working at Apple.....STOP THE LIES NOW...... Demand native AVCHD in it's full input / output resolution not the striped down crap imovie produces that is of less quality than a DVD, why will anyone buy a HD camcorder only to have the photage striped of it's resolution in Imovie how rediculous!!!!!
Thanks for responding.
I know, that current Macs and even past Macs are able to edit AVCHD natively, just not in iMovie, FCP and FCE. FCP X is the first Apple application to allow that.
Avid Media Composer and Premiere Pro can edit AVCHD files natively, and while the CPUs are capable of doing so, one still experiences lags.
I simply speak from an editing viewpoint, having edited for several broadcast shows and using editing in a "professional environment" (making my money with it), thus my experience is, that AVCHD is a ****** format to begin with.
Most editing professionals prefer their footage in an editing compatible format, nowadays using the DV, DNxHD, ProRes or similar codecs. AVCHD is too compressed, it does not store every frame, only keyframes and the change between those keyframes, thus frame precise editing is cumbersome and introduces lags, therefore editing codecs are there to help. AVCHD footage also does not store that much information to make good colour corrections with it (it can be done, but one is limited).
For a consumer, AVCHD footage is probably ideal, it does not take up that much storage space as using an editing codec and it still looks good to the untrained eye.
To avoid lag during editing, Apple probably just wanted to be on the save side. Or not. Maybe they were too lazy. And those are not lies. And those are not facts.
Maybe ask Apple directly or one of its programmers, or find an article or two about the absence of AVHCD native editing in iMovie, FCE and FCP 7 and earlier.
What you do, is just repeating the same argument over and over, with no valid proof. You sound like a conspiracy advocate, but still in training, since your arguments are still flawed and have no substance and repeat themselves.
Though I repeat myself in your replies too. Maybe we are at war? The big Shadow vs Light battle is upon us. I want to be a shadow, they have the cooler ships and can go into Hyperspace immediately. Those other ones still need jumpgates.