Getting an edited movie back onto the camera?

Just wondering if anyone has had any success editing a movie, then somehow getting it back onto the camera for playback on an HDTV.

From what I understand, which is admittedly not much, the typical way to see an edited HD movie is to burn a DVD and watch it on a Blu-Ray player. Being that I have no Blu-Ray player, or a PS3, I'd love to be able to at least hook up the camera to the TV and watch my edited movies.

Thanks for any advice.

A movie is just a disk file. Can't you just save it to the camera using camera as an external HDD?

A movie is just a disk file. Can't you just save it to the camera using camera as an external HDD?

I should have mentioned this in my OP...I had no problem getting the movie (.mov made on a Mac) onto the SD card, but the camera doesn't recognize it for playback. I guess I'm asking if there's a different format I needed to make it, or a special folder to put it in. I put it in the /STREAM folder, but no dice.

Just wondering if anyone has had any success editing a movie, then somehow getting it back onto the camera for playback on an HDTV.

From what I understand, which is admittedly not much, the typical way to see an edited HD movie is to burn a DVD and watch it on a Blu-Ray player. Being that I have no Blu-Ray player, or a PS3, I'd love to be able to at least hook up the camera to the TV and watch my edited movies.

Thanks for any advice.
For SD5 and its software (HD Writer) for PC. I don't think you "really" need the PS3 or BD for watching your edited movie (AVCHD) after you burn it into a DVD, and later you can watch it via your PC's DVD with HD Writer s/w or PowerDVD it's all depend on how fast your PC is and which Graphic card and monitor you have.

Has anyone used a DVD player with a USB port? I've been looking into them lately...if I could back everything up to flash drives, then just plug it right into the DVD player, I'd save a lot of DVDs.

This won't help you get the video to your camera, but it could be another option. I think a lot of the new HDTVs have a USB port as well.

Has anyone used a DVD player with a USB port? I've been looking into them lately...if I could back everything up to flash drives, then just plug it right into the DVD player, I'd save a lot of DVDs.

This won't help you get the video to your camera, but it could be another option. I think a lot of the new HDTVs have a USB port as well.
My player has an USB port, but it is USB 1, so it is slow and anything with relatively high bitrates is not played smooth. One has to look for high-speed USB 2 ports. Also, AFAIK this year's Panasonic plasma can play movies from an SD card. My last year's Panasonic displays pictures only.

mcdj wrote
"I should have mentioned this in my OP...I had no problem getting the movie (.mov made on a Mac) onto the SD card, but the camera doesn't recognize it for playback. I guess I'm asking if there's a different format I needed to make it, or a special folder to put it in. I put it in the /STREAM folder, but no dice."

I've also tried to get an edited movie back into the camcorder by copying an AVCHD file back into the Stream folder on the SDHC card - the camcorder doesn't see it. Only HD Writer will allow me to copy the mts clips onto the PC and back again, and HD Writer won't recognize anything other than an SD5 produced clip. HD Writer seems to convert the mts clip from the SD5 to an MPEG2 m2ts file on the PC - anyone had any success in getting an edited movie back into the SD1 or SD5?

I noticed that even when I add earlier stream files (only stream files, but not edited) to SD files the SD1 doesn't recognize them. It must have something to do with "the table of contents" or so. Does anyone know how to resolve this issue?

If you haven't used HD Writer to copy clips to the PC (I didn't), you won't be able to copy the originals back unless you copied the whole file structure in the AVCHD folder. The camcorder seems to need the other files for thumbnails views, clip information, indexes, etc. This copy back will work unless you have altered one of the files. If you try and "fool" the camcorder by substituting one edited clip for an original, it will see a clip but not play it, and then delete the thumbnail. HD Writer must also write new files for thumbnails, indexes, etc, when clips are edited, deleted or combined, such that the camcorder has all the correct information to see thumbnails and then play them. I cannot get HDWriter to "see" another MPEG2 clip edited by a third party editor, presumably because HDWriter needs the same index and thumbnail files that the camcorder uses - its a chicken or egg situation.