Thronsen wrote: 'No, that is not true. AVCHD is just a container. Other containers can also contain H.264-encoded videos, and many of them are less proprietary and better supported, such as the MP4 files that LR is now capable of producing.' Yet oddly I have $6,000 dollars worth of camcorders on my desk, a top selling compact from 2009, a top selling compact from 2010, the top selling 4/3rds camera from 2009, and they all take AVCHD. Sorry, but I will respectfully have to disagree. As do many of the leading manufacturers of camera equipment. Disagree with what? That other containers can also contain H.264-compressed videos or that AVCHD contains H.264-compressed videos? BTW, I have four cameras that take video, two MJPEG, two H.264, and none use AVCHD containers. The dSLRs that are now being used commercially for video all take H.264 in MOV containers, MOV being a sort of primitive version of MP4.
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