Can't import movies from JVC MOD/TOD camcorder to iMovie?

So anyone who has purchased a JVC Everio HDD video camera has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken video format – the .MOD extension. Apparently this is some sort of MPEG2 encoding, however, most major video editing suites prefer not to accept this format, take iMovie as example, its common compatible formats including M4V, MPEG-4 or DV.

How to play Canon AVCHD, Canon MOD on QuickTime

Currently, Canon AVCHD, Canon MOD camcorders are dashing in the market for cheaper price than its competitors and good cost performance considering both price and image quality. More and more people would choose Canon AVCHD or MOD series, but the same time, this highly-regarded reputation camera also generates various problems like to connect Canon camera to Mac and play its movies on QuickTime. Before we solve the problem, let's take a brief learning about Canon AVCHD and Canon MOD.

How do i import my hd movies from my vixia to mac?

I have a Canon VIXIA HF 100 and may we call it "Antique" now because the latest VIXIA HF S11, VIXIA HF S10, VIXIA HF S100, VIXIA HF20, VIXIA HF200, VIXIA HG21, VIXIA HG20 have launched one after another. But I'm not ready to get a new one to substitute it because it has brought me very impressed memory.

I remembered one small segment clearly that one day one of my friend brought my camcorder for he is having a baby due any day now, and he want to get all this stuff working before he comes so he can get some footage when they come home from the hospital. Before he brought this he also required me demonstrate him how to import it to Mac because he hope to do some edit on iMovie if the video is ready.

At first, I think it should be easy to import Canon VIXIA to Mac (I usually directly import it to Sony Vegas for editing on Windows) and I do the follows:

MKV file format and how to play MKV on Mac OS

Many friends have the experience to download MKV files from Internet and found it is used for HD movies; today we will unveil its true colors and learn how to play it on Mac OS freely.

What is MKV?
MKV file format: or .MKV files, Generally Matroska files, as well those containing audio (movies) or video only. .MKV file is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles screams, allowing the user to store a complete movie with subtitles or CD in a single file.

Why MKV generated?
As a new video and audio container format similar to AVI, one of compression formats, but with several new features like support for OGG audio, Variable Framerate Video. It aims to become the standard of multimedia container formats and replace AVI in the future.

How to play MKV on Mac OS?
Here I recommend you use MPlayer OS X or VLC OSX, certainly they are both free.
Both of them are wonderful multimedia players can undertake many of video formats incompatible with Mac player QuickTime. Because they contain a decoder to decode the MKV files. Also they will play many of the formats you will find inside the .MKV file.

How to play MKV on Mac portable devices i.e. iPod, iPhone?

HD camera's good helper---------Sony Vegas

We often see "Sony Vegas" appeared on all kinds of digital forum or Yahoo answer! While some users are very familiar with it and others is strange to it. What is it on earth and how powerful function does it acts? Following we will unveil its mystery face yarn in a simple way.

A word to it.
A tool lets the user edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs.

Introduction of the members of MacBook family

The MacBook family is a range of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. that merged the PowerBook and iBook lines during the Apple–Intel transition. The first model released under this family was the MacBook Pro, which was announced on 10 January 2006 at the Macworld Expo. The consumer-focused MacBook was released on May 16, 2006, and the MacBook Air was revealed on January 15, 2008.

To make you have a overall knowledge about this hi-tech notebook family, below are three pictures which tell the timeline of BookMac family and the specifications of the three members MacBook Pro, MacBook and MacBook Air.
Tips: Double Click the images to see the original images

Preview Full HD camcorder development tendency from JVC 3D Full HD Camera

What is Full HD?
Full HD is the grammalogue of Full High Definition which typically refers to the capability to accept 1080p signal and display it with native resolution of at least 1080 lines, as well as the capability to upscale lower-resolution material to 1080p.

Currently the Full HDTV has sold on the market and Panasonic is in the preparing of developing the Blu-ray Full HD formats. Naturally, the camcorder producer won't fall behind this good business opportunity.

3D Full HD camera launched:
In 2011 JVC at the CES show unveiled one of the world’s first full High Definition 3 dimension camcorders.

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Panasonic top 3 AVCHD camcorders in Amazon

Since Panasonic released the first professional AVCHD camcorder in autumn of 2008, then followed by Sony in the first quarter of 2010 and later Canon, JVC and Hitachi also stepped into the AVCHD market. Relatively speaking, Panasonic is the first one also currently the best one in doing this job, so it's worth our efforts to have a review of its top 3 models from Amazon market.

HD format and its application in our daily life

We know that DVD brought a revolution in video and audio experience compare with VCD times, but with the technology developed with each passing day and people's increasing demand; we need screen wider and image quality higher, so the HD generated.

What's HD format?
HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280*720 pixels (720p) or 1,920*1,080 pixels (1080i/1080p).

How to play and edit JVC Everio MOD on Mac OSX?

A friend of me newly purchased a JVC Everio camcorder and enjoy the fun form going out for shooting with this digital product. The first day, after he got abundant of footages, he attempted to transfer the JVC videos to his MacBook for playing and editing, but fail to play the.mod files with QuickTime and iMovie, even his VLC Media Play could do nothing about those shootings.

She stated his issue to me for help. Of course she got the right person and finally solve her problems.

About MOD video and the way to play it on Mac

What is MOD video? (Compare MOD to TOD)
When mention to MOD, we also think of TOD. MOD and TOD are informal names of tapeless video formats used by JVC (MOD and TOD), Panasonic (MOD only) and Canon (MOD only) in some models of digital camcorders. MOD is used exclusively for standard definition video files, while TOD is used for high definition files. MOD and TOD are comparable to XDCAM EX, HDV and AVCHD.

Welcome iPhone 5 in September

Almost half of the summer has gone, and no news about the launch of iPhone 4 from Apple.

Bloomberg is reporting that Apple will release the next iPhone in September, having pushed back the fifth model “to coincide with the release of the new iOS 5” which was just previewed at WWDC 2011 earlier this month.

It is said new iPhone 4 has strong clips for processing data, a high resolution screen, as well as advanced camers. According to two people familiar with Apple’s plans, a beefier processor and 8MP camera are a lock for the new model, which is said to “closely resemble” the existing iPhone 4.

News about iOS 5: iOS 5 Beta 3 Released on July 11th 2011

Apple released the latest beta version of iOS 5 as well as the latest version of iTunes 10.5 to developers yesterday on July 11th 2011. The iOS 5 beta 3 release today came with a list of known issues, as developers and Apple continue to work out the bugs. However, iOS 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is slated to be released, in its final shining glory and over 200 new features, to users this fall.

Mac OS X Lion is around the corner

Mac OS X Lion (version 10.7) is set to be the eighth major release of Mac OS X, Apple's desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. Lion is set to be released in July 2011 by Apple. However a third of this month already behind us without the launch of OS X Lion. It is said by Mac Life according to a variety of leaked retail plans, Apple seems to give official release for Lion this week! Just look forward to the good news.
In this article, we will preview the Mac OS X Lion.

AVCHD camcorders and play M2TS/MTS from AVCHD camcorders on Windows and Mac

AVCHD has become regular topic to whose who have AVCHD camcorder for shooting videos. An AVCHD camcorder is a digital camcorder that record and export video files in AVCHD format with a .mts or .m2ts file extension.Sony and Panasonic released the first AVCHD camcorders in autumn of 2006, followed by Canon and JVC.