How to convert MOD to MPG files on Mac (Lion included)

The MOD file format is used by various digital camcorder models, like Panasonic, JVC Everio, and Canon to save their videos. So anyone who has purchased a MOD video camera or camcorder has probably learned that they chose to use some god forsaken proprietary video format – the .MOD extension. Apparently this is some sort of MPEG2 encoding; however, most major Mac video editing suites prefer not to accept this format… what we need is something more common… such as .AVI or .MPG. We would be happy to find that MOD to MPG Video Converter for Mac works.

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As the mass group of MOD model camcorders, this programme is specially developed to support well for these models. You can convert MOD files from these models to MPG for Mac.

JVC:GZ-MC100, GZ-MC200, GZ-MG30, GZ-MG70, GZ-MG37, GZ-MG77, GZ-MG505, GZ-MG130,GZ-MG155,GZ-MG255,GZ-MG555,GZ-MS100U ,GZ-MG7230 ,GZ-MG630(2009),GZ-MG670(2009),GZ-MG680(2009)

Panasonic:SV-AV100,SDR-S100,SDR-S150, SDR-S10, SDR-H18, SDR-H200,SDR-H20 , SDR-H40, SDR-H60, SDR-SW20,SDR-S7,SDR-SW21(2009),SDR-S26(2009)

Canon: FS100, FS10, FS11, FS200 (2009), FS21 (2009), FS22 (2009) This is the interface of MOD to MPG converter for Mac.

Step1, Download MOD to MPG converter for Mac and install it on Mac. Drag-and-drop MOD files into this application for converting.

Step 2, Select MPG as the output format and set the destination file folder. You can select MPEG1 Movie (*.mpg), or MPEG2 Movie (*.mpg), which are both common and easy to use on Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion etc.

Step 3, Start to convert, click the "start" and the conversion will be finished automatically. You can see the process from the preview window.

The MPG to YouTube video converter for Mac is also a good video editor. You can do video trim and video crop on it. See details about how to trim and crop videos on MOD to MPG converter for Mac.

By the way, refer to how to import MOD camcorder to Mac to check if your MOD camcorder is connected right.