Hi all:
How is the following laptop going to hold up to editing AVCHD from a SONY HDR-SR11? Software wise I have SONY Vegas Pro 8 as well as PowerDirector Ultra.

Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz Front Side Bus 667MHz, L2 Cache 4MB, 2GB DDR2SDRAM (PC2-4200)

NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 7400 and Intel® Graphics Media
Accelerator 950

Video RAM: 335MB Total Available Graphics Memory , NVIDIA®
GeForce® Go 7400 notebook graphics processing unit (GPU) and
224MB Total Available Graphics Memory , Intel® Graphics
Media Accelerator 950

Technology: Hybrid Graphics System
Chipset: Intel® 945GM
Any and all comments appreciated!

That laptop should work fine for editing. You should have 2-3GB Ram. It will not be a speed deamon with AVCHD but nothing is. If you have not bought the machine yet, I would look for one with the nvidia mobile 8400 or 8600 graphics cards as they help out with the decode of video during playback better.

Thanks Jaymode...I already own the laptop and it is maxed out at 2gb memory. I was wondering if I needed to upgrade the system when I upgrade the camcorder to the SR12 (currently have the hdr-hc1) or if I could get by with the laptop and then move later. Sounds as if I can get by. Now I'm worried about which software will keep my AVCHD in HD! I am reading that Vegas reads AVCHD but converts it to SD...but that's another thread. This newbie stuff sucks...! Thanks..

What thread is that about Vegas? I have not seen it yet and am very interested in that.

Let me see if I can find it..been reading so much and so many places I forget where it is...

Here is the link to the thread.

http://www.camcorderinfo.com/bbs/t141039.html


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Originally Posted by leothelion
Vegas Platinum with the most recent upgrade does read Canon AVCHD. I believe it also reads Panasonic AVCHD but I can't test it as I don't have a Panasonic cam.
Keep in mind though that Vegas Platinum 8.0 only "reads" AVCHD. It does not "write" AVCHD. It only edits and converts your AVCHD video to Standard Definition. AVCHD output is not possible with it. __________________
Ernie
Sony HDR-SR1 AVCHD HDD User

I see. I am using Vegas 8 PRO and was able to output in AVCHD format. So I guess that is a limitation of the Platinum version only. Vegas 8 Platinum should still be able to output HD, but just in another format than AVCHD.