I've used quite a few editing softwares and had previously settled on Premiere Pro CS4, but Premiere doesn't fully support AVCHD (which is Sony's HD format) so after struggling with it for a while I gave up and tried the latest Cyberlink... I could not be happier... there's a huge gap between Premiere Pro and Cyberlink in terms of how much you can do (Premiere let's you do pretty much anything you want with the video as long as you have the computer horse power to process it ), but Cyberlink just works and the export module is fantastic. The best I've seen. It handles the Sony HD format like a champ too.
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