Sony AVCHD

If you’re looking for a lightweight AVCHD player capable of playing your Sony AVCHD files on your computer you might want to consider one of the following:

• AVS4YOU AVCHD player (allows converting AVCHD to normal DVD)
• Oxygen AVCHD Player by Mirillis 

Your recently purchased HD handycam camcorder from sony records movies as AVCHD files. AVCHD is basically a video compression standard that is used by all HD handycam and camcorder companies including Sony, Canon, Panasonic and JVC. AVCHD is here to stay, but it is still in its infancy which means that there is not a lot of software available to use with Sony AVCHD. Sony handycams are bought with software to help you play and edit AVCHD files.  The Sony AVCHD player included in your purchase will enable you to play files recorded with your sony handycam on your computer. It’s important to know that the Sony AVCHD player requires some decent processing power and won’t work on your high school pc.

If you’d like to edit your movies with a state of the art editor you could try Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 or above which enables you to:

• Create Stunning HD Movies
• Share HD Movies on Blu-ray Disc
• Edit Sony AVCHD
• Surround Sound Mixing and Encoding
• Video Restoration Tools
• Add Professional Effects

If you’re not sure where you can play Sony AVCHD movies, the best and easiest way of playing a Sony AVCHD movie is directy through your Sony Handycam to your HDTV using a HDMI cable. But that’s not ideal. Alternatively you can plug your Sony Memory stick directly into your blu-ray player and watch your Sony AVCHD movies on your HDTV. Lastly, you can burn a blu-ray disc using software like example Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 mentioned above and start building up you professional AVCHD home movie collection. These blu-ray discs can be played by any blu-ray player for instance the Sony Playstation 3.