The AVCHD update - download the public beta now!

Jul 6 2012

The AVCHD update - download the public beta now!

Posted by Simon K Jones on July 6, 2012

Slightly ahead of schedule, a new public beta of HitFilm is now available. This brings a few important changes and additions, especially for AVCHD users:

• Dolby Digital audio decoding is now supported for AVCHD videos.
• Improved AVCHD video decoding performance.
• NEW Derez effect and preset, custom designed for Freddie Wong's Video Game High School web series. Tutorial coming soon!

We'd really like your feedback on this version, especially if you use AVCHD. If you've had performance problems with the format in HitFilm before, please try the new beta and let us know how you get on.

What is a public beta?
Beta software means 'test software'. This isn't an official release yet, so it's up to you whether you use it or not. Although this version should be entirely stable, we don't recommend using it for important projects until the official release.

If all goes smoothly the official release should follow in a week-or-so.

Download links
You won't be notified of this update inside HitFilm. Instead, you can download the beta version using these links:

Updated installers:

HitFilm Standard 64-bit
HitFilm Standard 32-bit
HitFilm Ultimate 64-bit
HitFilm Ultimate 32-bit

Please make sure you download the correct version for your system.

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Comments

Biq

Posted on 06 July 2012 - 10:23 PM

DeRez eh? Next you'll be putting us on the game grid :wink:

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MichaelJames

Posted on 06 July 2012 - 11:40 PM

I could see derez being very useful for a Megaman video.

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kirathekiller214

Posted on 06 July 2012 - 11:56 PM

The AVCHD works great, but I just put derez on some footage, and Hitfilm crashed, tried again, and it is still loading.... Good thing this is a beta test!

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Kahveh Robinett

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 12:31 AM

Same thing happening to me when I took some AVCHD footage and tried to place the Derez effect on it crashed. I have tried it several times and it crashes every time.

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rtrowbridge

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 03:56 AM

Same here. I tried it in a project with AVCHD footage (which was running faster), and it crashed. It also crashed in a different project without any AVCHD footage and it crashed as well.

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LinkedPictures

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 07:14 AM

Et moi! More crashing! :sad:

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Simon K Jones

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 09:04 AM

Does it happen as soon as you add the derez effect? Or do you have to fiddle with setting first?

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kirathekiller214

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 01:50 PM

If I put on the effect, it crashes, but, if I use the preset, it crash as soon as I hit play or mess with the settings.

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Robin

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 02:05 PM

Same here, crashes instantly on adding the derez effect to a video. Using the preset it doesn't show anything new in the viewer (should it?), and crashes as soon as I scrub through the timeline, hit play or change some setting.

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Kahveh Robinett

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 04:41 PM

Same here it crashes the very moment I place the Derez effect on the timeline.

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Simon K Jones

Posted on 07 July 2012 - 08:50 PM

Surprising, as we've not encountered that while using it ourselves. Clearly something is amiss with the derez effect, and I'm sure the devs will be all over it on Monday.

Thanks for the reports, guys, very useful. Any other AVCHD users out there who can give that side of things a whirl?

Robin - to get derez to display you need to assign the mask setting to a layer. Although that won't help until these crashing issues are resolved. :smile:

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Simon K Jones

Posted on 09 July 2012 - 01:51 PM

New versions are uploading now, will let you know when they're up. :smile:

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MoviesMaxwell

Posted on 09 July 2012 - 02:09 PM

Thanks.

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TomMc

Posted on 09 July 2012 - 04:33 PM

Hey everyone

The updated installers can now be downloaded from the links in the main post.

Let us know if this fixes the Derez issue (and also how the AVCHD is going!)

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Majahr

Posted on 10 July 2012 - 11:20 AM

The derez filter works for me now...but don't know how to use it :rolleyes:

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Simon K Jones

Posted on 10 July 2012 - 11:42 AM

Tutorial coming soon. :wink:

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few-regrets

Posted on 11 July 2012 - 01:46 AM

Hmm.. my copy of the beta has no option to install anywhere except default location - drive C:. Current version is installed on drive F: since C: & D: are both small solid state drives. The "browse" option is greyed out and un-selectable on the install wizard.

Hope it's fixed - itchin' to try my native AVCHD files without conversion.

:unsure:

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Ady

Posted on 11 July 2012 - 02:43 PM

Hmm.. my copy of the beta has no option to install anywhere except default location - drive C:. Current version is installed on drive F: since C: & D: are both small solid state drives. The "browse" option is greyed out and un-selectable on the install wizard.Hope it's fixed - itchin' to try my native AVCHD files without conversion.

Hi,

The installers for HitFilm have never allowed for the installation location to be changed.

The installer will always install to your default Windows installation drive, we have had requests to allow the installation destination to be changed but at present it cannot.

Sorry

Ady

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duffman

Posted on 12 July 2012 - 12:07 PM

AVCHD from my Canon HFM41 imports into the editor and into a comp shot great. No slow down or lag when dragging the playhead. Audio, Dolby AC3 native, plays great with no problem at all.

The "preview" window is on my secondary monitor, and show jaggies or pixelation of fast moving objects during play back at highest resolution. However these are not present after a render.

So far the only problem I have had is with projects created in previous versions. Needed to modify a starfield project I created several versions ago. Opening the project and trying to modify the comp shot, the playback head is very sluggish. There is a huge lag when trying to grab and drag the playhead. At times there is what seems a second to two lag when starting and stopping playback from the keyboard.

I have not tried the derez yet.

Duff
Win-7 Pro
i7-960
Nvidia/ASUS 560-ti (drivers up to date)
24gig Corsair Dominator 1600 RAM

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bartmanmlv

Posted on 14 July 2012 - 02:31 AM

Hi,
Long time owner of Ultimate, newbie editor.

Been reading forum posts over the past few months with great patience that I would be able to inport my .mts files that have Dolby audio into my Hitfilm Ultimate so that I can hear sound. I've been only use these files with Cyberlink PowerDirector 10 but I've been anxious to do REAL COOL effects with Ultimate but didn't want to demux or go through the extra steps of converting my original files to something else Ultimate can read without messing things up or confusing myself.

Sorry to ramble, but my question is this. If this beta goes through ok, and solves the problem I and I guess others have been having, would I have to purchase a brand new copy of Ultimate again or will there be an update that would fix my installed copy?

Thanks again for all you do! Brilliant product. Been viewing the tutorials and have done cool titles experiments with particle effects but if the Dolby thing is fixed I can't wait to do more.

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