MOD or TOD Files? A Conversion Method

[the_wine_snob]

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

[the_wine_snob]

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

Good luck,

Hunt

[Guest]

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_snob]

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

Good luck,

Hunt

[the_wine_snob]

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

Hope that these help,

Hunt

[axlone1]

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!

[the_wine_snob]

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

[Colin-B]

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.

[klehman11]

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