I have a former student who has an issue you might have suggestions on how to solve it.
He shot footage with a JVC GZ-MG21U, this is one of the tapeless, direct to hard drive cameras.
He's trying to import the footage so he can edit it in Final Cut Pro. The only info he's found so far is to chang the file extentions from .MOD to .MPG - this works - but this appears to be Audio only. Is the audio stored somewhere else? or is there some thing special he has to do to get Final cut to "see" the audio in the file?
Hrm... I actually use a program to convert the .TOD files to mpegs. The .TOD is actually a wrapper for the Mpeg file. My proggy came with the camera-- I don't know how to go about it on a Mac.
Quick online look says to use Quicktime Pro to convert them.
"JVC supplies a CD with an installable OS X driver that enables Apple iMovie HD to import TOD files. iMovie HD can import both 1920x1080 and 1440x1080 clips directly from the HD7’s hard disk, an optical disc, your computer’s hard disk, or a FireWire hard disk. (For some reason, TOD clips are slightly light.)
The downside of working with iMovie HD is that clip import requires a great deal of time because TOD files are automatically transcoded to AIC files during import."
You can also try renaming the .TOD files to .M2t files (it's an Mpeg-2 transport stream) and see if that works for editing.
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I have a former student who has an issue you might have suggestions on how to solve it.
He shot footage with a JVC GZ-MG21U, this is one of the tapeless, direct to hard drive cameras.
He's trying to import the footage so he can edit it in Final Cut Pro. The only info he's found so far is to chang the file extentions from .MOD to .MPG - this works - but this appears to be Audio only. Is the audio stored somewhere else? or is there some thing special he has to do to get Final cut to "see" the audio in the file?
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Quick online look says to use Quicktime Pro to convert them.
"JVC supplies a CD with an installable OS X driver that enables Apple iMovie HD to import TOD files. iMovie HD can import both 1920x1080 and 1440x1080 clips directly from the HD7’s hard disk, an optical disc, your computer’s hard disk, or a FireWire hard disk. (For some reason, TOD clips are slightly light.)
The downside of working with iMovie HD is that clip import requires a great deal of time because TOD files are automatically transcoded to AIC files during import."
You can also try renaming the .TOD files to .M2t files (it's an Mpeg-2 transport stream) and see if that works for editing.
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