JVC camcorder users are usually troubled by MOD and TOD files that generated by their JVC camcorders, because the two formats generally can not be accepted directly by most video players or editors. If you want to enjoy these video files on your computer or portable devices, or even do some further editing with video editing software, you have to convert them to some other common formats previously. This article here will introduce you how to convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Windows and Mac？If you are in need, please go ahead with it.

Part 1: About MOD and TOD:

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Both MOD and TOD are the informal tapeless video formats produced by certain digital camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic. The differences between them lie in: MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on, while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40; Moreover, MOD is only used for standard definition video files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.

Part 2: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Windows?

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter

Step 2: Import video files, select output format and specify store path

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to this program, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV. Meanwhile, press output folder to specify where to locate the output files, or you can use the store path set by default. Further more, suppose you need to join several files to be one, you can check "Merge into one file" to realize it.

Step 3: Set advanced settings:

You are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. In this section, you are able to set parameters for output video, the bigger value, the better quality, but the larger size.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 4: Convert

Pavtube provides you a friendly interface while converting, and all the conversion info can be found out in the following window, like total progress, the time have spent, the file size have been generated, as well as the possible left time and the entire size probably produced during the conversion.

Tips:

1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes. Merge multiple files into one file is also available.

2. It does not have the audio-video sync issues.

3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

4. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

Part 3: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Mac?

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.

Step 2: Select formats and do advanced settings

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to edit with iMovie, you can select MOV or MP4; to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV.

Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. For instance, you can reset the screen size or change the bit rate. Increase the bit rate, video quality will be improved, while file size will be enlarged. Decrease the bit rate, file size will be reduced, while quality is inferior to the original.

Step 3: Export To

Set which destination folder the output files will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path to locate them by clicking "Browse".

Step 4: Convert

Tips: Introduce you two more special functions to optimize your conversion.

Suppose to add logos or images on your videos to show your personalized settings or to reserve your own copyright? The following step will show you the methods of adding watermarks.

1. Add watermarks to your video

There are four ways to add watermarks, including adding text, adding images, adding GIF animations, and especially adding videos. Don’t you think a picture-in-picture function is really wonderful?

2. Audio Replace

If you want to add some soft music or some other audio resources to match your recorded videos, you can have a try about the function of "Audio Replace" to replace the original audio in your videos. You can click "Browse" to select which audio resources will be used to take place of the original audio.

Hope this article could definitely relieve your format troubles while handling MOD or TOD video files no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user.

JVC camcorder users are usually troubled by MOD and TOD files that generated by their JVC camcorders, because the two formats generally can not be accepted directly by most video players or editors. If you want to enjoy these video files on your computer or portable devices, or even do some further editing with video editing software, you have to convert them to some other common formats previously. This article here will introduce you how to convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Windows and Mac？If you are in need, please go ahead with it.

Part 1: About MOD and TOD:

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Both MOD and TOD are the informal tapeless video formats produced by certain digital camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic. The differences between them lie in: MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on, while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40; Moreover, MOD is only used for standard definition video files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.

Part 2: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Windows?

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter

Step 2: Import video files, select output format and specify store path

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to this program, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV. Meanwhile, press output folder to specify where to locate the output files, or you can use the store path set by default. Further more, suppose you need to join several files to be one, you can check "Merge into one file" to realize it.

Step 3: Set advanced settings:

You are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. In this section, you are able to set parameters for output video, the bigger value, the better quality, but the larger size.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 4: Convert

Pavtube provides you a friendly interface while converting, and all the conversion info can be found out in the following window, like total progress, the time have spent, the file size have been generated, as well as the possible left time and the entire size probably produced during the conversion.

Tips:

1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes. Merge multiple files into one file is also available.

2. It does not have the audio-video sync issues.

3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

4. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

Part 3: How to convert MOD and TOD files on Mac?

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.

Step 2: Select formats and do advanced settings

Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of "Format". If you want to edit with iMovie, you can select MOV or MP4; to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV.

Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. For instance, you can reset the screen size or change the bit rate. Increase the bit rate, video quality will be improved, while file size will be enlarged. Decrease the bit rate, file size will be reduced, while quality is inferior to the original.

Step 3: Export To

Set which destination folder the output files will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path to locate them by clicking "Browse".

Step 4: Convert

Tips: Introduce you two more special functions to optimize your conversion.

Suppose to add logos or images on your videos to show your personalized settings or to reserve your own copyright? The following step will show you the methods of adding watermarks.

1. Add watermarks to your video

There are four ways to add watermarks, including adding text, adding images, adding GIF animations, and especially adding videos. Don’t you think a picture-in-picture function is really wonderful?

2. Audio Replace

If you want to add some soft music or some other audio resources to match your recorded videos, you can have a try about the function of "Audio Replace" to replace the original audio in your videos. You can click "Browse" to select which audio resources will be used to take place of the original audio.

Hope this article could definitely relieve your format troubles while handling MOD or TOD video files no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user.

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Suppose you are searching for a 3-in-one program to rip your on-hand Blu-ray and DVD collections as well as

all kinds of video files for playback on your iPhone, and then Pavtube iPhone Converter Ultimate should be your

best choice.

Pavtube iPhone Converter Ultimate is an easy to use

Blu-ray DVD to iPhone Converter, DVD to iPhone Converter, and Video to iPhone Converter that can convert Blu-

ray movies, DVDs and videos in all sorts of formats to iPhone workable formats. This iPhone Video Converter can

smoothly rip any copy-protected Blu-ray discs and DVDs, as well as convert most popular video and audio formats

such as AVI, WMV, Divx, FLV, MTS, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MKV, TS, etc. to iPhone compatible video and audio

formats, including MP4, M4V and MP3. What's more, it adopts advanced audio and video sync technology, which

will never let you be troubled by audio and video out of sync issues.

The following part will show you the step-by-step instruction of Pavtube iPhone Converter Ultimate, if you are

interested in it, please feel free to move on.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 1: Add videos, load Blu-ray and DVD files

Click "Add Video" to import video files to this program, and click "Load DVD" to input Blu-ray and DVD movies.

Totally, there are four ways to load DVD, namely "Load DVD ROM", "Load DVD Folder", "Load Blu-ray Folder" and

"Load ISO/IFO".

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Step 2: Select output format for iPhone, and specify save path

Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select a format for your iPhone from "iPhone Video". At the same time,

click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to locate the output files, otherwise, the program will

export the output files to the save path set by default.

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Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters

Click "Settings" button, and then you will be able to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, aspect

ratio, bit rate, sample rate, etc. on the window as below. To optimize the output file quality, the larger input values

are suggested, but you should also notice that the output file size will be enlarged at the same time. That means

you’d better make a balance between file quality and file size. If you are not familiar with this, you can totally skip

this step, because the default settings can basically meet your watching needs on iPhone.

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Step 4: Start conversion

After all the above steps are completed, you can now click "Convert" button to start conversion. All the

conversion info including conversion progress, time elapsed, time left, generated file size as well as estimated file

size are all listed in the ripping window as below. In that way you can make good control of the conversion time and

the space of your storage disk.  

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Once the conversion is done, the output files can be found via clicking on "Open" button. After that, just sync

them to your iPhone with iTunes. Good luck.

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I'm trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv

file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can

understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track

as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a

forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are

looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.

First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter

here.

1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click "Add" button to load MKV files

As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.

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2. Click "Properties" icon to select your needed audio track

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of "Audio Stream ID" to see which one is your needed audio

track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking "OK" button to save your choice.

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3. Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3

I chose "PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" for instance. To output vob files, you can select "VOB Format"

firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.

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4. Click "Settings" button to do advanced settings

If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click

"Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To

get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better

quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you'd better

make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip

this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.

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5. Click "Convert" button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob

Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Now, it's time to enjoy the

movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.

The end! Hope this helps.

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Apple's iPad features a 9.7-inch high-resolution 1024×768 multi-touch display, which not only makes it

convenient and comfortable for users to read newspapers, magazines, and books, view photos, experience the web,

see and touch emails, but also makes it perfect for watching any kind of video, from HD movies and TV shows to

podcasts, music videos and more. Since iPad is without distracting keypad or buttons, you will totally concentrate on

this big screen, and feel completely immersed in whatever you're watching.

As of March 12, 2010, Apple fans in the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad. The iPad is scheduled to go on

sale in the U.S. on April 3. Are you ready for watching video and Blu-ray or DVD movie collections on your iPad? If

not, this tutorial will give you a solution to the problem of how to play iPad incompatible video files in a detailed way

with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter

Ultimate.

Before that, go to see the iPad supported video formats as below:

TV and video playback:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz,

stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up

to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo

audio in .avi file format

Well, if your movies are out of the above categories, then please follow the following guide to do format

conversion before your playback.

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Step 1: Add videos, Blu-ray or DVD movies into this program

Click "Add Video" to import video files, and click "Load DVD" to import Blu-ray or standard DVDs.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 2: Select "iPad" as output format

Click the pull down menu at the end of "Format" to select an output format for iPad. Here I choose "iPad Video

MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" as an example.

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Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters

You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup

window to optimize the output file quality. Do remember following Apple's recommended settings I've mentioned in

the above contents:

Video:

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second

Audio:

Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo

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Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.

Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly.