MOD file transfer

Hi all a newbie here, yeah I suppose my story is the same as most of you. I got sick & tired of my Windows PC hanging/freezing-up and needing hard shut-downs I just had enough so I got my-self a smart little macbook I'm still trying to get used to the way 'it just works' LOL!

Anyway, I have a canon Eviro? camcorder but it stores the image files as MOD files which the Mac doesn't seem to appreciate, I cant seem to find a MOD to JPEG converter?

Any ideas?

Thanks

well according to wikipedia...

MOD is also the file extension for the video file format used on many digital camcorders, such as the JVC Everio, and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. Typically, such files are actually MPEG-2 video files with a different extension.


have you tried just copying these files on to the mac and changing the extension from .mod to .mpg or .mpeg?


welcome to the forums!

Hi eric
Yeah I have tried but my mac still doesn't like them?
I think I'll revisit the everio site and see if I can find something?

Thanks

copy the .mod file to your mac, change the extension to .mpeg, and open in mplayer, a free app you can download for your mac. Everything will work fine. If you want to keep the clip, change the .mpeg back to .mod, and then use another free app called MPEGStreamclip to change it to whatever file format you want. Also ffmpegX (not the same as ffmpeg) will convert this file (i think, but a little quirky at times).

Hope this helps,

Brian

Thanks Brian
I'll do that

Cheers

Brian/eric

I downloaded mplayer and changed it to be the default player and hey presto! I don't need to change the file extension either.
Top job!

Thanks everyone

mpeg streamclip

just convert the format via mpeg streamclip. (http://www.squared5.com/)

i use that to convert my mod files to quicktime so i can use them with imovie and watch them on quicktime....

shahvikram123 said:

just convert the format via mpeg streamclip. (Squared 5 - MPEG Streamclip video converter for Mac and Windows)

i use that to convert my mod files to quicktime so i can use them with imovie and watch them on quicktime....

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How do you run a bunch of files through it at once? Is that possible?

Mac users should have a big wide smile where MOD files are concerned. No converters needed - which have dubious results. No renaming of file extensions which can lose the audio and change the aspect ratio.

Just plug the camera into the Mac and run iMovie. Select import from Camera and all the files are imported as MOV files with sound and the correct aspect ratio. Then edit with iMovie or Adobe Premiere.

No brainer!!

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