The even better news is that the solution is FREE! In fact it is based on ffmpeg which is freely available from the Internet.
Jvc video converter for mac mp4#
This is a problem because we also have some additional footage shot with a different underwater camera and we need to have both video sets sorted by date.Īfter many failed attempts, I found a fully working solution that can properly convert MOD files to MP4 with the right aspect ratio, so they are properly imported and handled by iMovie and Final Cut Pro. There are also few free applications (like SDcopy.exe, which is Windows only) and MPEG Streamclip which unfortunately did not solve the problem either for me (the aspect ratio was still wrong once imported in iMovie).Įven if they had worked properly, none of these conversion applications has an option to preserve the creation/modification date of the original video. I tried the trial version of few of them but they didn’t fully solve the issue.
While searching the Internet for a solution, I stumbled across many commercial applications that claim to be able to solve the problem. Apparently the MOD files are indeed fully compliant to the MPEG ISO standard, so the fault is on the application side. In particular, they do not interpret correctly how the aspect ratio is defined. The problem is that many video editing application, including the Apple ones, fail to properly interpret some information tags inside the MOD files. iMovie may indeed import the renamed file, but the video will have the wrong aspect ratio, the quality will be low and the audio will often be missing. Unfortunately iMovie and Final Cut Pro are not among them. There are many threads on the Internet saying that simply renaming the MOD files to MPG will make them importable in many applications. The JVC MOD format (also used by Panasonic and Canon) is actually a standard MPEG encoded video with AC3 audio. The video size is also reported to be 720×576 (PAL), while it is actually 720×405. However the imported movies are displayed with a wrong aspect ratio (4:3 instead of the correct 16:9) and in many cases the video quality is very degraded.
Jvc video converter for mac archive#
Once back home, while trying to utilize the JVC MOD files in iMovie and Final Cut Pro, I (re)discovered how much these Apple applications do not like the MOD format!īoth applications are actually able to import the MOD files when connecting the camera directly to the Mac or simulating a Camera Archive after having copied to files to the computer hard drive. I haven’t been using it for a long time, but recently we decided to bring it along and use it during our sailing trip in the British Virgin Island. I own a not so new JVC Everio GZ-MG130 camcorder which records on an internal HDD and optionally on an SD card.
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