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Thanks a lot Fred. I’m using four PCs with Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit, all with MSE and NO other AV program. No complaints. Auto-updating works well. The genesis of MSE was in Giant Software – purchased by Microsoft. It helps when you buy the best.

Thank you to Alan. I used his solution on my wife’s Outlook 2010 to eliminate the problem. [Install Firefox, make it default, check hyperlinks work, then go back to IE and make it default again. Now it works!]

Happily just dld & installed Update 1 (build 6597) tp Acronis TIH 2011. Don’t know whatit’s all about yet.
Cheers

Posted 2010-06-27
I’m a struggling novice in home videos. I need help especially editing AVCHD software restricted by this criteria:
all original scenes are taken with a Canon Vixia HF200 camcorder using SDHC Speed Class 6 memory cards.
Selected Recording Setup: mode MXP (1920 x 1080 resolution), Cine Mode, Frame Rate PF24.
Selected Playback Setup: Component Output 1080i, TV Type 16:9 connected to HDTV via 4-way HDMI switchbox.

recordings saved via USB cable to Home Theatre PC 1TB eSATA external hard drive. (Windows7 Home Premium x-64).
If away from home I can offload SDHC cards to a laptop hard drive (Windows7 Home Premium x-64).

ultimate goal is to refine output and burn travel memories on Blu-ray discs. Successful tests to date used DVD DL.
No requirement to send to YouTube or similar online sites.

editing challenges [other than my total inexperience]
Clearly need to delete specific frames, insert audio and text and to shuffle frames, all within a scene.
Ability to shuffle edited scenes and tie them together with transitions into a smooth movie entity.
Difficulty understanding operation of much of the software tried, which varies in price from Free to US$150.
Keeping software costs down. Nobody gives Seniors Discounts on computer stuff!!!

am not prepared to lower my sights so that some of the software will work. We have quite an investment in our Home

Theatre and look for the best return on it. Some software does not work with AVCHD/H.264 (.mts, .m2ts)

Here is what we’ve tried – all work to some extent. Most documentation is pathetic, and useful tutorials by printed

example or video is absent.

Arcsoft TotalMedia Extreme Version 2 (includes TotalMedia Theatre3 Platinum – a very good player)
Corel DVD MovieFactory Version 7
Corel VideoStudio Pro X3
Microsoft Windows Media Version 9
Microsoft Windows Live Movie Maker Version 14
Nero 9 (includes a number of useful programs)
Pixela ImageMixer3SE Version 5. [Includes a good Transfer Utility to import videos from camcorder to PC]
Pixela AVCHDPlayer Version 2,1,0,2

Any help to simplify and expedite my toils would be much appreciated. Hopefully someone has blazed the same trail.

Thank you from British Columbia, Canada.