Good HD Video Editing System?

[Jon Wisnieski]

I know there is another thread similar to this but I am looking to buy video editing software that can handle HD video, specifically AVCHD. I have a Canon Vixia HF100. I would like to be able to burn my videos onto DVDs and also to be able to upload them at rv.net at relatively high quality. Anything helps.
Thanks,
Jon Wisnieski :)

[UCRP93]

I know there is another thread similar to this but I am looking to buy video editing software that can handle HD video, specifically AVCHD. I have a Canon Vixia HF100. I would like to be able to burn my videos onto DVDs and also to be able to upload them at rv.net at relatively high quality. Anything helps.
Thanks,
Jon Wisnieski :)

My favorite video editing software is Cyberlink Power Director Express. It came with my JVC Everio GZ-MG330 camcorder, but I believe it can be purchased separately. It does an outstanding job at keeping the quality high, while being very user friendly in the process. The title templates and transitions are worth writing home about.

If you would like to see the software in action, visit my Youtube page and watch some of the latest videos (ones with lower quality were shot with my Kodak camera, I apologize):
http://www.youtube.com/CSXno601

[Christopher Muller]

I just picked up Sony Vegas Movie Studio Plantinum Pro - works really good. However, even with 4GB of RAM on my computer, it still takes 35 minutes per 1 minute of HD video. A 30 minute video takes the better part of a day. Glad I have my laptop to do other stuff with when my desktop is processing video.

[FastFlyingVirginian]

Jon: I've used Ulead VideoStudio for a few years now, but having recently sampled Sony Vegas Movie Studio (both the Pro and Platinum version) I'm looking to upgrade as soon as I can save enough pennies. It's a close call, but personally Sony's interface tilts it in their favor.

Chris: 35 minutes for 1 minute of video sounds like something other than RAM was the bottleneck unless your output was some outrageous frame size and quality level - what kind of processor do you have and what kind of settings were you using? When I ran the trial versions of Vegas Pro and Platinum on my machine, which hasn't been top-of-the-heap for a while (dual-core 2.4Ghz Athlon 64 X2, 2GB RAM) I was rendering 1440x1080 HDV to 1280x720 MPEG-4 clips (5mbps video, 128kbps AAC audio), and I think my worst case scenario was a 9:14 clip that took maybe 30-35 mins. No denying that HD takes a lot of oomph to render...often I just queue up 5 or 6 clips and let them render overnight while I use 'awake time' for other pursuits. :-D