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MOD or TOD Files? A Conversion Method

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May 29, 2009
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Ann Bens, on the CS4 forum, posted this LINK to a possible solution for working with MOD & TOD files. Might be of use, if you have a JVC (could work with some other, similar cameras) and want to work with these files in any flavor of Premiere. As I do not shoot to MOD, or TOD, I have not tried it, and cannot vouch for how well it works.

Good luck,

Hunt

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Correct answer Steve Grisetti

Changing the file name suffix is only a hybrid solution. It just tricks Premiere Elements into accepting the files. There are still codec and conversion issues.

The best solution is to truly convert the files -- using either Hunt's recommendation or the one I recommend in the FAQs to the right of this forum.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/428054?tstart=0

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klehman11

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Try changing the name for .TOD to .M2TS changing to .M2TS will have the same audio and video quality but can only be edited in Premiere Pro CS5. I dont know if this will work for mac but for PC vista 7 it works. If this still does not work try downloading the K-Lite Codec pack.

Hope this helped

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Chris at JVC just offered this advice, for a situation where Widescreen is not seen by PrE:

There is an easy fix if your SD Everio clips do not display in widescreen. This is how I fixed the problem:
1. Make sure you have selected a widescreen project preset. Under Available Presets, choose NTSC>Hard Disk, Flash Memory Camcorder>Widescreen 48kHz
2. In the PE8 Task Panel, click on "Organize", and then "Project".
3. Right click on the actual file, and select "Interpret Footage".
4. Under "Pixel Aspect Ratio", select "Conform to:" and choose "D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121).
According to the PE8 Help file, "You may occassionally encounter a distorted clip if Adobe Premiere Elements interprets pixel aspect ratio incorrectly; if this happens, you can correct the distortion by manually specifying the source clip's pixel aspect ratio."
I hope that helps.
Chris

Hunt

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Colin-B

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Echoing an earlier comment in this thread. I can't see why conversion is necessary as all the MOD files I've seen so far are standard fixed-length packet MPEG-2 program stream files.

Chris at JVC just offered this advice, for a situation where Widescreen is not seen by PrE:

There is an easy fix if your SD Everio clips do not display in widescreen

The problem is that some cameras store the aspect ratio flags as 4:3 even when it is really widescreen, so it is not really a case of PE not seeing a widescreen flag in the file.

SDCOPY is a popular free program which fixes the aspect ratio flag in the video stream of the files so that they are correctly set as widescreen. This should therefore fix the cause of the problem instead of having to tell PE to work around it by using "Interpret Footage". It also means that the fixed files will also play correctly as widescreen in other programs and media players.

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axlone1

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Dudes!

JVC TOD files: rename extension to m2ts

since you probably have a lot of files to convert use a bulk rename utility: www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk shareware program that works great!

have a good day!

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Anonymous

Whats up with all the converting? I shot with a JVC Camera which also automatically imported the footage as .movs, but I just just OnLocation to import as m2t. Problem solved.

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

A JVC employee, Chris At JVC, comments on MOD files in reply #3 in this THREAD. Might be useful.

Good luck,

Hunt

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Here are some more THREADS with comments by Chris at JVC.

Hope that these help,

Hunt

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Also, please see this THREAD and read down for replies by Chris @ JVC. His comments might be very helpful.

Good luck,

Hunt

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Anonymous

I have personally tried out TOD video converter and is the best tod files converter it converts tod files to other popular video formats like AVI, Mpeg, DivX, VOB, WMV, MP4, etc with high out ut-put quality and fast converting speed. If you happenlydesire to do the conversion of TOD files to another fomat file, this Tod Converter is my first recommendation...you can easily download the trial version of the softwarefrom online and have a try...

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Welcome to the forum, and thank you for the converter recommendation. That will very likely help others in the future.

Good luck,

Hunt

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Steve Grisetti

Legend

Note that the TOD Converter recommended by juicy as well as the MOD converter recommended by soundwel each cost $29.95.

That's not a bad deal, if you're struggling with these challenging files. But if anyone finds a free converter, please let us know.

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soundwel

Participant

MOD Files?The way to convert your mod files is here.I find a mod converter,and I have converted my mod files quickly.

Yes,here it is MOD Converter

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for that link. The more coversion utilities, the better.

Appreciated,

Hunt

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Anonymous

Premiere Elements fully support MOD and TOD files as these files are basically MPEG2 (MOD(720x480, TOD:1920x1080).

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john cliff

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a good little mpeg (and aspect ratio header info for 16:9 from 4:3) converter here

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jerzypk

Participant

I have a JVC camera that uses .MOD file format. I have found that just renaming those files to .mpg works in some instances and doesn't in others (but there are problems with this approach, as mentioned in above posts). On the bright side: Premiere Elements 7 appears to work with those files natively! I tried other video editing applications that claimed to support .MOD files, but out of fustration with them being buggy beyond comprehension, I finally turned to PE7 not knowing, I can work with those files, without converting them first.

I downloaded a FREE .MOD converter but haven't use it yet. You can find it here:

www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter

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Anonymous

FWIW, I get a 404 error for the link:

www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Worked for me, just now, on Google Chrome.

Do you have your browser's security set to highest? There were no pop-ups, that I saw, and I could not detect any reason for it to not work.

Good luck,

Hunt

RndmPplPrsn

Participant

This is a problem often with JVC cameras (MOD). The esiest way to convert them with best quality is to change the extension to a mpg or avi I think. Because in reality that's what it is, just with an extension that's proprietary.

And for a lot of files use Lupas Rename.

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Steve GrisettiCorrect answer

Legend

Changing the file name suffix is only a hybrid solution. It just tricks Premiere Elements into accepting the files. There are still codec and conversion issues.

The best solution is to truly convert the files -- using either Hunt's recommendation or the one I recommend in the FAQs to the right of this forum.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/428054?tstart=0

the_wine_snobAuthor

Inspiring

Steve,

I was about to link to the FAQ article that you give, and noticed that the image is dead. There is a JVC user on the CS4 forum, having issues, and it appears that Ann's method does not work for him. Is this an issue with the forum today, or is the .PNG gone from the archives?

The FAQ method seems like it would be better than the horribly convoluted method that the guy in CS4 is using. So far, his way is the only one he's found that will work. Gosh, you should see his workflow! I'd have given the camera to Goodwill, if I had to do what he does.

Thanks for looking into this,

Hunt

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