I. JVC camcorder, Canon camcorder,Sony handycam and other similar cameras record their movies as .MOD/.TOD/.MTS files. A question thus arises,  how to play .MOD/.TOD/.MTS  files on Computer?

For playback, I liked the VLC player the best. An alternative player is MPlayer (but it played my movies rather slow).

Since MOD/TOD/MTS Video files are not supported by windows media player, windows movie maker and iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Blackberry, etc portable MP3 MP4 Players, Cell Phone, if you want to import these  files from your camcorders to edit on windows movie maker, or play on iPod, even burn to DVD Disc? You may need to convert MOD to WMV Video files first, here is a tutorial that will outline one method of convert the Canon, Panasonic, JVC, Everio camcorder supported video files, such as convert  MOD to AVI, or  convert MOD to  MPEG , MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3, etc common video formats which are compatiable with WMP and other portable multimedia players.

II. How to Convert MOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3

To begin with, free download Pavtube HD Converter which can convert MOD/TOD/MTS to common video formats compatiable with WMP, install and run with the overall interface like this..

Step 1. Copy the .MOD/.TOD/.MTS  file from your video camera to your hard drive. Click the “Add Files” button to browse your computer hard disc and load the MOD/TOD/MTS video files you want to convert to the HD Converter.

Step 2. Select Output Settings

Click Format bar, select Common Video-> WMV / HD Video -> HD WMV and then type in output path in Output bar or click the small folder icon to specify a destination folder. Check Merge into one box and the selected files in file list will be combined and output as one file. Click Edit menu and enter Trim window to cut off unwanted clips and reduce the output WMV to exactly what you want.

Tips:
In the output settings area you can click “Settings” button to customize the output parameters like video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc, if you want to make things simple, the default setting also works well.

Step 3: The last step will be conversion. Click “Start” button on the HD Video  Converter, and all the tasks will be done. During the whole conversion, you can have a clear idea of the conversion process such as converted length and time in the “Converting” window popped up.

Tips: If you want to customize the video, this HD Video Converter offers a powerful video editing function, including cropping video, setting the video effects, clipping to choose the length of the movie, even customizing personal watermark to meet your personalized needs.
After you convert MOD/TOD/MTS Video files with Pavtube HD Video  Converter, you can import MOD/TOD/MTS  Movie from your camcorders to Windows Movie Maker, iPod, Zune, etc without problem

Download the  HD Video Converter


Pavtube HD Video Converter allows you to edit and convert HD video formats from HD camcorders(JVC, Sony, Panasonic, and Cannon), TiVo DVRs and DVs to other formats including MKV, MP4, VOB,MPG, MOV, AVI, DV, TS, FLV, 3GP, 3G2,MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A etc. so that you can enjoy the HD videos on Apple TV, PS3, Xbox, Xbox360, WD TV player, Video-DVD player, PSP, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 3G cell phones, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, Zune and edit in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Cyberlink Power Director, Avid, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Nero, tsMuxer etc.

Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac is designed for converting HD video formats from HD camcorders or DVs (like JVC, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon), non-protected HD or Blu-ray movies to other formats for playback on most popular portable devices like iPod, iPhone, iPhone 3G cell phones, Apple TV, PSP, BlackBerry, Creative Zen, iriver, Zune, etc.

More Info: http://www.pavtube.com/


“How do I convert this file without any quality loss to be able to edit within Premiere Pro CS4?” A good question! The JVC Everio cameras, like GZ-HD620, GZ-HD500, GZ-HM300 etc, shoot at full HD (1920×1080) in MTS or TOD format, which are rejected by most editing software, and you have to convert them to common and editable format before importing to non-linear editing application. Although all the Everio models come with software that allows you to do some simple editing, turns out to be helpless if you want to transcode the footages with it. You got to seek other application to deal with these HD files. The en-decoding process, as we all know, will definitely leads to quality loss of the video. You can hardly expect the converted video clip as perfect as the original footages. Is there any software that can convert MTS file to be editable and keep the original video quality? Well, Pavtube HD Converter is worth trying. In the following guide I will show you how to convert JVC MTS and TOD files to editable video clips without quality loss.

Access the software:
You may check more information about Pavtube HD Video Converter or download a trial version to try it out.

Step through:
Step one. Run Pavtube HD Converter. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the footages and load them to the converter.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar. Select Remux-> MPEG-PS Video Remux (*.mpg). For burning onto blu-ray disc, MPEG-TS would be a nice choice.

Step three. Click the folder icon at the end of ‘Output’ field to select a location for the output video files.

Step four. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files. The converted files will be as big as the source footages, without any quality degradation. Now you can import these HD MPG files to Premiere CS4 and any other editing software for editing.

Small Tips:

  1. Preview the video- select it in file list and click ‘Preview’ button.
  2. Thumbnail- click ‘Snapshoot’ button when previewing the video. Click ‘Option’ to set the image format of screenshots.
  3. Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it.
  4. Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.
  5. Trim- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab and input time point in start and end box.
  6. The HD files bite much hard drive space. You can compress the files with the HD Converter to free some space when it is necessary.

If  you are mac user,try PavTube HD Video Converter for Mac

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