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How to convert MOD/TOD files to MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. on Mac OS X

May 242010

Part 1: What are MOD and TOD?

In order to meet people’s different kinds of requirements in video recording, camcorder manufacturers have developed numerous types of camcorders. However, the recorded formats produced by these camcorders are various and special, and are not widely accepted by Mac or most portable devices we often use in daily life; therefore, these formats usually bring some troubles to camcorder users, MOD and TOD are the two formats among them.

Both MOD and TOD are the informal tapeless video formats produced by certain digital camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic. The differences between them lie in: MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on, while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40; Moreover, MOD is only used for standard definition video files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.

As mentioned in the first paragraph, the same with some other camcorder formats, MOD or TOD files can not be read directly by most video playing or editing software on Mac. If you want to enjoy the recorded videos produced by the above mentioned camcorders in MOD or TOD files on Mac or portable devices, or even do some further editing about them, you have to convert them to some other common formats like MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. previously.

Part 2: How to convert MOD and TOD files to MP4, AVI, MOV, etc.on Mac OS X?

This article aims to introduce you Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac to help you convert MOD and TOD files generated by certain camcorders to MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.
TOD Converter for Mac

Step 2: Select formats and do advanced settings

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and select whatever formats you need from “Format”, like MP4, AVI, MOV, etc. Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. Click button “Settings”, you will see the following window:
TOD Converter for Mac

Step 3: Export To
Set which destination folder the output files will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path to locate them by clicking “Browse”.

Step 4: Convert
As soon as your settings are well done, you can press “Convert” to start converting. The converting process will be shown as follow:
TOD Converter for Mac

Tips: Introduce you two more special functions to optimize your conversion.

Suppose to add logos or images on your videos to show your personalized settings or to reserve your own copyright? The following step will show you the methods of adding watermarks.

Add watermarks to your video

There are four ways to add watermarks, including adding text, adding images, adding GIF animations, and especially adding videos. Don’t you think a picture-in-picture function is really wonderful?

If you want to add some soft music or some other audio resources to match your recorded videos, you can have a try about the function of “Audio Replace” to replace the original audio in your videos.

Audio Replace

You can click “Browse” to select which audio resources will be used to take place of the original audio.

Hope this article could definitely relieve your format troubles while handling MOD or TOD video files.

How to convert MTS/TOD/MOD files to iPad format on Mac OS X

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May 172010

Shoot some interesting videos with your HD camcorder and want to import these MTS footages to iPad or iPad 3G for playback anytime you want or showing to others conveniently? Since MTS/TOD/MOD format is not natively supported by iPad so you need to convert these files to iPad friendly format first. For a hassle-free experience and high quality HD video output, I recommend Pavtube HD Video to iPad Converter MAC, which provides optimized presets for your iPad so you don’t need to worry about the settings for your iPad.

According to my experience,share with you the best video settings for iPad.

video: h.264, 720p, 30fps, 4000kbps

audio: aac,48khz,160kbps,stereo

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How to import AVCHD files to Final Cut Express for editing

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Apr 042010

Basically, the HD camcorders shoot footages in AVC/ H.264 MTS format, which is not editable in most non-linear editing software. Although the latest version of Sony Vegas (published by Sony) is capable of editing MTS format, it is only designed to run on Windows Platform. Mac users have to figure out another way to settle it down. Videographers would see FCP or Final Cut Studio as useful tool for audio and video editing, for amateurs who prefer to do some simple editing to their HD footages, FCE (Final Cut Express) is a better choice. This guide is written for Mac users that meet difficulties in importing Sony HDR-SR MTS footages to FCE. Why should the MTS files can not be loaded in FCE while Apple made it clearly that the Final Cut Express 4 work with AVCHD files? Surely FCE4 handles AVCHD footages shot in 1280*720 and 1440*1080. So when your footages are shot in 1920*1080, you need to convert the MTS to editable format for FCE. Hope the following guide helps.

Note: Final Cut will only handle AVCHD files when it finds them in their original file structure (either by connecting the camcorder or using a memory card reader), not isolated .mts files.

1. Add MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to this program

Once launched this program, the following friendly blue-sky interface will pop up, on which you can click “Add” button to load MTS and M2TS files.

2. Select FCE compatible format as output format and set save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select FCE compatible format as output format, here I choose MOV for example. Click “Browse” button to specify where to store the output files. Moreover, if you have the need of joining multiple MTS and M2TS to be as a single file, you are able to achieve this goal via ticking the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

3. Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, then you will see the following interface, on which you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, and audio channel. In principle, the larger input values, the larger file size, but accompanying with the better file quality; the smaller input value, the smaller file size, but in accordance with the more inferior file quality. That is to say, if you want to do advance settings, you’d better make a balance between the file size and file quality.

4. Start converting MTS and M2TS files to FCE format

Once all the above settings are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting MTS and M2TS AVCHD files into FCE supported format. The interface below will present you clearly about conversion progress, time elapse, left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. After conversion is done, you can easily find out the output files for FCE via clicking “Open” button.

Well, finished, what you should do next is just adding the output files generated from MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to Final Cut Express for editing.

If you are interested in Pavtube HD Video Converter for mac, please click here to learn more information about this program. There is no function or time limitation so you can make full use of it.

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