@Burgesst, thus far only three video editors (NLE) will work with AVCHD, Sony Vegas, Adobe and Videostudio, of the three only Videostudio has the lowest sticker price.
http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4650075&cid=catalog20038&segid=6100016
Corel will allow you a FULL 30 trail. I downloaded Sony Vegas and Adobe trial versions before and they did have limits and one had a watermark. What you need is a no limit, no restraint trial and as far as I know only Videostudio provides that. That said since your camera shoots in AVCHD, you are going to HAVE to buy one of them. I suggest download all the trials and playing with them, then choose
