Camera and Camcorder AVCHD Video Converter

If you have bought a Full 1080p Plasma TV, no matter Panasonic, Samsung , Vizio, Pioneer, or Sony, and got a Sony AVCHD camcorder like Sony HDR-TG5V, Sony HDR-TD10, Sony DSC-HX5V, Sony Alpha NEX-5, Sony NEX-VG10, Sony HDR-XR520V, Sony HDR-XR500V, etc with 1080p or 1080i AVCHD recording in 2011, you may like to connect your Sony Camcorder to Plasma TV for sharing precious videos at home, but before enjoying, you may like to join the related videos and create home movie for series.
The windows version of PMB (Picture Motion Browser) for Sony camcorders doesn’t work well, and there is rare satisfied AVCHD merging software on the market, after searched, I found a professional AVCHD Joiner, which can be used as Sony MTS Joiner for Plasma TV. With only three steps, the videos could be combined into one single file, keeping the original 16:9 aspect ratio, video format, video codec, bitrate, etc for HD playback on Plasma TV. Read The Full Story

The Sony DSLR-A580 was announced, together with the SLT-A55, in August 2010. In Sony’s slightly convoluted DSLR line-up it is firmly located in the mid-level bracket, competing with cameras such as the Canon EOS 600D/Rebel T3i and Nikon D5100.Sony DSLR-A580 cameras can record 1080p full HD movies and deliver 7 fps in continuous shooting mode. (1920×1080/30p and 1920×1080/60i ).
For edit Sony DSLR-A580 1080p AVCHD footages on Mac, you will use Final Cut Express. But when you log & transfer and import the Sony DSLR-A580 1080p .mts, you may face incompatibility with Mac programs. It is really a distracting and annoying thing for Mac users. So you need a Mac Sony DSLR MTS Converter for convert A580 1080p AVCHD to MOV for Final Cut Express without rendering. Read The Full Story

The Netgear EVA9150 is the successor to the EVA8000, which won a Best Buy award in our last group test. The new model has some significant improvements, including an easily accessible 500GB hard disk and support for an even wider range of HD video formats and protected WMA-DRM10 files. Netgear EVA9150 offers equally strong video support as follow: Read The Full Story

Nowadays there are many camcorders with powerful Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound system enabling consumers to record their home movies in dramatic 5.1-channel digital surround sound. Such as camcordersSony HDR-CX550, HDR-XR520, Panasonic HDC-TM700, Panasonic HS700, Panasonic SD600, Panasonic TM900, Panasonic SD800, etc. For such amazing footages with 5.1 audio from your camcorder, you may like to put them to your 5.1 audio supported media players like Popcorn Hour A210, WDTV, Xtreamer, Egreat, DUNE HD Player, D-Link Wireless HD Media Player, GO Media HD Player, Xtreamer, TVIX (HD M-6500), AC Ryan PlayOn!HD, PSP/PS3, etc for enjoyment. But the camcorder may give your 100-200 files for three hours’ recording. If you just put all of them to your media player, you may find you had to manually change to next clip when playing, or it can not play successively. So joining all MTS files into One and Keeping 5.1 audio is necessary.
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I purchased Sony CX700 for shooting family videos. When looking into the files, there are a lot of files with different folders. I got multiple files when taking the mother’s day video, as I clicked the pause button on camcorder. I plugged the SD card to Popcorn Hour A-210, and it plays pretty good, expect that there is about 4-second delay when it goes to another clip. Read The Full Story

Sony HDR CX700V High Definition camcorder is listed as one of the most expected camcorders from Sony handycam line since Sony CX550 is released last year. Sony CX700V features with 1920 x 1080 Full HD  60p/24p recording, 12MP still images, wide angle G lens, “Exmor R” CMOS  sensor, enhanced manual controls and advanced controls.
The following is a list of pros and cons of Sony CX700V:
Sony CX700V Pros
- Wide angle which may avoid having to use a wide angle lens for many situations
- Full HD 1080/60p video recording for best quality of your memories.
- Compact and easy to use, great for people who like to walk and record a lot.
- Enhanced manual controls make video recording easy and smooth.
- 96GB of internal memory
- Expanded focus
- Multi-color peaking


Sony CX700V Cons
- Viewfinder is borderline useless. It has a micro wheel for diopter adjustment (viewfinder focus). This wheel moves anytime you open the viewfinder or move the camera. So you must use your shooting hand to manually refocus viewfinder every time you use it.
- Can’t shoot in full manual mode from exposure standpoint, i.e., can’t manually set shutter, iris, exposure all at the same time.
- 1080/60p AVCHD footage generated by CX700V is difficult to play and edit on Mac OS X

About CX700V 1080/60p AVCHD MTS footage
Although Sony CX700V provides really impressive video quality when we view in camcorder screen, 1080/60p AVCHD MTS clips is not easy to handle on Mac without bundled software Picture Motion Browser. Based on my personal experience, “Log and Transfer” in Final Cut Pro 7 does not recognize the 1080/60p footage from Sony CX700V. It seems that if Sony wants to force us to use third party transcoding software. Read The Full Story

After shooting video with the digital cameras like Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5, Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS8/TZ18, FP7/FP5, you may find it easy to organize and catalogue the clips in iPhoto. However, if you decide to upgrade your camera to camcorder for shooting family videos, you may find it difficult to manage camcorder clips in AVCHD format. AVCHD camcorders are more and more popular, and you can find Canon HF R200, Panasonic HDC-TM900, Sony HDR-CX700 as the 2011 new models. Neither iMovie or FCP could process the MTS/M2TS files from camcorder natively, as the files will be transcoded into AIC or ProRes. Read The Full Story