Camera and Camcorder AVCHD Video

I have been using Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 for years. Since my business starts with JVC Everio GZ-HD7 to shoot videos for wedding, sports events, promotional videos, how to videos for clients, Adobe Premiere CS3 is not my favorite then. It is a pity that CS3 does not support directly import JVC GZ-HD7 videos. I turned to Avid Liquid 7.2 as my preferred editing tool, as it supports the .m2t file. I just need to change the file extension from JVC .tod video to .m2t. Every video from JVC GZ-HD7 could be imported to Avid Liquid 7.

However, Avid made the Avid Liquid end-of-life announcement with upgrade offer to Media Composer 5 in March, 2010. I upgraded to MC5, but only to find that it does not recognize my JVC GZ-HD7 videos either in .tod, or .m2t. I use Aunsoft Video Converter as the JVC GZ-HD7 to Avid converter. This converter transcodes TOD/M2T to MOV, which is compatible to Avid MC 5. It keeps the high definition of the Full HD JVC GZ-HD7 in 1920×1080. There is also a quick option to merge videos on the main interface. It is the best solution I find so far for JVC videos to Avid MC 5.

However, I also notice that Media Composer converts the QuickTime MOV files to MXF as intermediate file. The conversion within Media Composer is fast, but the MXF file occupies a lot of space. For example, a short clip with 2 minutes at 1920×1080 is around 500MB, and the conversion to MOV with Aunsoft Video Converter reduces the file size to less than 200MB. After importing the output .mov to Media Composer, I find a file with .mxf extension for 2GB. It is a pity that Aunsoft Video Converter does not convert to Avid intermediate codec yet. However, if it supports the intermediate codec, I think the output file size will be extremely large like that in Media Composer.

After all, I could edit JVC GZ-HD7 video in high definition on Avid Media Composer, with the help of Aunsoft Video Converter. It is currently good for me.