You would need a license to balance your checkbook. Think of human development if Sum, Chi Square, Mean, Standard Deviation, FFT, etc. PS: I claim codecs are math and one can NOT patent an equation. Which I suspect reflects Sony's desire to keep AVCHD restricted to consumer camcorders. Note there are two versions of AVCHD: one uses the less powerful BASE profile (Sony) and the other the MAIN profile (Canon and Pana). It might be legal to have an AVC codec that used exactly those parameters as long as you called it something else, e.g., AVCPIX. It's not clear if they only license the NAME. Sony and Pana took a license for AVC, locked certain parameters, and now had a product they could license to others. You can't, they claim, have an AVC encoder/decoder without a license. Is AVCHD a free and open standard or not? I admit, I don't really know.ĪVC/H.264 is part of MPEG-4 which owned by the MPEG group. Despite owning a 4 core and then an 8 core MacPro, I was never able to find anything remotely equal in performance on the Mac for AVCHD, given the very limited software choices of Final Cut or iMovie.īut is not AVCHD h.264? And is not h.264 an open (free) standard? I'm confusued. I have absolutely no desire to spark any Mac versus PC thread or discussion here, but I do want to make it clear that the PC has a really extensive AVCHD set of tools, and my personal mnigration from doing nearly 5 years of HDV editing is now entirely replaced for AVCHD with very smooth and rapid workflow PC software, substantially better and much faster than HDV ever was. There are also a number of PC programs which simply convert AVCHD into other formats for easier editing, including such programs as: My point with all of this is that AVCHD is fully represented on the PC with a total of 13 ways to play it, 8 ways to author and edit it, and at least 5 more ways to convert it: None of the other programs is much more than $79 with the exception of Pinnacle 12 Ultimate, which now sells for a bit over $100 but has a $30 rebate. I agree that some of this PC software is indeed a bit expensive, but the very best of them on the PC (in my opinion) is Nero Show Time which comes with an entire suite of really useful software including disk burning, AVCHD disk creation and editing, and other things and is available for $69. I know he was asking about OS-X Steve, but your comment that there "is only one PC player" for AVCHD is really quite wrong.
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