{"id":138212,"date":"2010-01-05T00:33:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1038341"},"modified":"2010-01-05T00:33:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T05:33:05","slug":"how-to-import-mod-files-from-hd-camcorders-to-imovie-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/138212","title":{"rendered":"How to import MOD files from HD camcorders to iMovie on Mac OS X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>How to import MOD files from HD camcorders to iMovie on Mac OS X?<\/p>\n<p>iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. It imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras, the USB port, or by importing the files from a hard drive. However, the supported formats don\u0092t contain the MOD files from HD camcorders. In other words, MOD files can not directly import to iMovie for editing.<\/p>\n<p>Here I just collect these camcorders which generate videos in the format of MOD.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zyghrz.com\/pic\/12-25\/mod\/modelmodcamcorders.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you just have one of these above camcorders, the way to import the MOD to iMovie may be what you are urgent to know. Don\u0092t worry. Now with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-video-converter.com\/mod_converter_mac\/\" >Mac MOD converter<\/a> called Moyea MOD Converter for Mac, everything will be Okay. This program is designed to convert MOD to almost any video or audio format with easy to use interface at high conversion speed and excellent output quality.<\/p>\n<p>Are you ready? Just follow me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part one: Convert MOD to iMovie with Moyea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-video-converter.com\/mod_converter_mac\/\" >MOD Converter for Mac<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>First of all, free download <b>Moyea MOD Converter for Mac<\/b> here, install and run it.<\/p>\n<p><b>1)<\/b> Click \u0093<b>Add<\/b>\u0094 button to import the MOD files into this program. Then you can select the output format as iMovie workable format like MOV from the drop-down list \u0093<b>Format<\/b>\u0094 as well as set the output files location from the \u0093<b>Browse<\/b>\u0094.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zyghrz.com\/pic\/12-25\/mod\/mod.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2) <\/b>Click the \u0093<b>Settings<\/b>\u0094 button on the main interface, a profile window will pop. Under the profile window, you can adjust audio and video parameters for your reference, like codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution, and the aspect ration and so on. You can also hit the \u0093<b>Save as<\/b>\u0094 to save the setting for next time use.<\/p>\n<p><b>3) <\/b>After selecting a video file, you can also click the \u0093<b>Edit<\/b>\u0094 button to do some editing jobs on your video before converting, like trimming, cropping, adding effects and watermarks and so on.<\/p>\n<p><b>4) <\/b>Tick the \u0093<b>Merge into one file<\/b>\u0094 to merge or join several MOD files into one.<\/p>\n<p><b>5)<\/b> Once all the settings are done, you just need to click the \u0093<b>Convert<\/b>\u0094 button to start video conversion. Although the MOD files are usually big, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-video-converter.com\/mod_converter_mac\/\" >Mac MOD converter<\/a>\u0092s multi-thread encoding techno can compress and convert them in a little time. What\u0092s more, it can prevent any audio and video sync issues for its advanced audio and video synchnization.<\/p>\n<p><b>Part two: Import the converted video files to iMovie<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the whole video conversion is finished, just click the destination folder you set to get the converted video files.<\/p>\n<p>Now click on the iMovie icon on your Mac to launch iMovie. A window with a little instruction movie about the iMac appear (Figure 4). To the fight of the movie you should see the following options: \u0093<b>New Project<\/b>\u0094, \u0093<b>Open Project<\/b>\u0094, and \u0093<b>Quit<\/b>\u0094. Choose \u0093<b>New Project<\/b>\u0094. Then you can import the converted files to it: Choose \u0093<b>File<\/b>\u0094 menu -] Import files.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zyghrz.com\/pic\/12-25\/mod\/imovie.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u0092t know how to use iMovie, just click here <a href=\"http:\/\/reach.ucf.edu\/~pezone\/tech\/imovie\/\" >http:\/\/reach.ucf.edu\/~pezone\/tech\/imovie\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to import MOD files from HD camcorders to iMovie on Mac OS X? iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. It imports video footage to the Mac using either the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital video cameras, the USB port, or by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}