Hey! You must be an early adopter, or something.

This post is just a placeholder, and will vanish shortly, once I get my act together. The non-video of Emma and my studio is the first throwaway result of getting the production chain together with my sparkly new Sony HDR-SR11 HD Handycam. It’s an extremely cool little beast – much easier to haul around than my pro rig with the 35mm lens adapter – but the AVCHD codec it uses threw my usual video habits right off their kibble.

I’m a long-time Final Cut Studio maven, but it turns out that Adobe CS4’s Premier Pro handles the alien AVCHD codec like a champ, without having to transcode in order to edit. It even preserves the Dolby 5.1 Surround audio the little guy records, which is a big plus.

You won’t find that audio here, though, as the web conversion process mixes it down to stereo. (At least for now!) Nor will you find the QuickTime playback controls scuzzing up my nice web page. I’m counting on people being able to figure out that they can click the movie to stop playback, double-click to resume playing, and double-click again if they want to see it more than once. (Not very likely, given this particular opus.)

Oh, c’mon, get used to it! It’s not that hard.