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Choices for video editing blossom into some nicely workable options
USA TODAY, August, 2007 by Jefferson Graham
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LOS ANGELES -- If you have one of those new high-definition camcorders that records directly to a hard drive, you've surely been frustrated.
Editing high-def clips into your own personal mini-masterpiece has been nearly impossible. The video footage has not been compatible with popular consumer video-editing programs, nor could it be used on most Apple computers.
That's now changed. Apple just rejiggered its popular iMovie program to accept video from these camcorders. And longtime Windows software favorites Pinnacle, Sony Vegas and Ulead VideoStudio have been upgraded as well.
The new high-def format is known as AVCHD -- Advanced Video Codec High Definition. It was created to offer high-def video in smaller digital files. It's quickly becoming the standard, even though Adobe's No.1-seller, Premiere Elements software, doesn't support it, and Adobe says it has no plans to in the near future. ...
