Thursday, July 28, 2011

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.

And you may remind me not all JVC SD camera use MOD format only. Yes, among JVC, Panasonic and Canon these common SD camera producers, JVC was the only supporter of TOD format and this starting from JVC released several hybrid TOD consumer models In 2008, the following will show you JVC's MOD camera series and TOD series respectively.

JVC MOD camcorders
GZ-MC100 (SD), GZ-MC200 (SD)
GZ-MG30 (HDD), GZ-MG70 (HDD)
GZ-MG37 (HDD), GZ-MG77 (HDD), GZ-MG505 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
GZ-MG130 (HDD), GZ-MG155 (HDD), GZ-MG175 (HDD, SD/SDHC card), GZ-MG255 (HDD), GZ-MG555 (HDD, SD/SDHC card)
GZ-MS100U (SD/SDHC card)
GZ-MG7230 GZ-MG630, GZ-MG670, GZ-MG680

JVC TOD camcorders
GZ-HD7 (HDD, SD/SDHC), GZ-HD3 (HDD, SD/SDHC)
GZ-HD5 (HDD, MicroSD), GZ-HD6 (HDD, MicroSD)
GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40 (HDD, MicroSD, capable of both TOD and AVCHD recording)

May you wonder that the MOD video is already an awesome video to deal with, let alone TOD video? But don't worry, there are professional MOD and TOD video Converter to assist JVC SD camera users to successfully upload MOD or TOD to popular editing tool for further editing. MOD/TOD Converter Mac is one of the good helper for you to convert JVC SD video to iMovie M4V, MPEG-4, MOV, DV, and AVI, then you can freely edit in your Apple iMovie.

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