It's all going to depend on how the 24 mbps AVCHD stream LOOKS. Note how much computational power is needed for good h.264 encoding when the computer has the luxury of analyzing an existing set of data. Real time capture with these temporal codecs is a minefield - even the best HDV implementations still have trouble, and that's after years of it being in the field.
But I'm hoping they've nailed it, and anxious to find out. Not, however, looking forward to having acres of hard drives to shelve for backup, or to having to transfer everything to two drives after shooting to have a backup set of media for work in progress. I'm more excited about the possiblity that this will be an improvement in image quality over consumer HDV. Brook _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
