I picked up a copy of Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate with some add-ons to mess with the video coming out of my Sony HDR-SR12 AVCHD format camera.  I was using the slightly higher-end tool Avid/Pinnacle Liquid to edit with my Sony FX1, but for the meantime Studio 12 will suffice for testing purposes since Liquid didn't support AVCHD, only HDV.  I'll post some observations and how well it outputs to Blu-ray and other formats in future blog postings.  Also I am going to take note about how often it will transcode and when it won't transcode -- i.e.

Looks like the weather is finally starting to become nicer in the northeast! Starting to look for some fun projects to tackle in my spare time. Everyone knows curiosity killed the cat, so one must approach this with moderation and care, especially in today's environment.

So I picked up a Sony HDR-SR12 camcorder the other day and am starting to use it. I've owned the first small Sony HDV camcorder, the HDR-HC1, when it first came out in 2005 but sold it later since I felt the low light performance was lacking as compared to my other Sony HDR-FX1 (larger) 3CCD cam. The SR12 is the smallest of the three, and now I only have the AVCHD-based SR12 and my 3-year old FX1 HDV2 [tape] format camcorders. For editing I have been using Avid Liquid, though it supports the HDV workflow very well, it does not yet support workflow for AVCHD (it probably won't until the next gen version). Read more below...

I have finally had some time to update my site to a new look and migrate some of the old content to it. Hopefully will get some more time to add stuff. Read more below...