Tag Archives: High Definition

High Definition Non-Linear Editing Part 2

Well, I gave the ArtistX 0.7 Live CD a try.  This had Cinelerra, Kino, and Kdenlive on it.  Cinelerra and Kino both did not have AVCHD format handling.  I found some methods out there to effectively transcode the video into formats that can be consumed by those editors, but the overhead (in terms of time and [...]

High Definition Non-Linear Editing

Well, I recently purchased a Sony HDR-XR500V HandyCam.  This little unit is tricked out with a hard drive for recording full 1080i (at 30 frames / 60 fields per second).  It also is able to capture 12.0 megapixel stills (very nice for some of the other projects that I’ve got going on).
The unit works will [...]