I have a JVC camcorder which records to hard drive. The files are given
a.MOD format. This format is not recognised by Adobe Premiere Pro. Does any
one have any suggestions to help me with this problem? I have tried Xilisoft
file converter but converting the files with this programme reduces their
size and quality below an acceptable level.

"Simon Mayo" wrote in message
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I have a JVC camcorder which records to hard drive. The files are given
a.MOD format. This format is not recognised by Adobe Premiere Pro. Does any
one have any suggestions to help me with this problem? I have tried
Xilisoft file converter but converting the files with this programme
reduces their size and quality below an acceptable level.
I thought that the MOD file format was used by midi music synths -as in the
Amiga computer circa 1987- not camcorders oh well how wrong I was! Did your
camera not come with some conversion software? If not try a web search for
AVSmedia they do a range of converter progs!

stephen Peterson wrote:

I thought that the MOD file format was used by midi music synths -as
in the Amiga computer circa 1987- not camcorders

The "MOD file format", aka "SoundTracker module format", "NoiseTracker
module format", or "ProTracker module format" (depending on who you ask
and which historical aspects you would like to emphasize) does not have
much to do with MIDI music synths as such. It is more of a
platform-specific digital music format that took advantage of the custom
4-channel sound chip in the Amiga computers. Unlike, say, MIDI files,
which only contain note data, MOD files contain sequenced note data AND
the sampled instrument sounds (digitized audio data) with with which
that note data is to be played.

MOD music was/is used primarily in Amiga demos and games. Later, when
PCs finally got sound features, too, the format escaped the Amiga
platform, and "trackers" (music editor tools with which you can compose
and sequence modules, or MODs) started appearing on other systems as
well, nearly all of them also supporting the original 4-channel Amiga
MOD format, although often extending the concept in various directions.

Modern trackers use custom module formats (with custom file extensions)
that support more than just four tracks, 16-bit instrument samples,
control of MIDI instruments, control of VST instruments, etc., but those
were not (and are still not!) features of the original MOD format.

The best module trackers today - such as Renoise, MED Soundstudio, or
MadTracker - can be used as professional music tools for creating "real"
music.

* * *

There is a fairly good archive of some of the best, "classic" 4-channel
Amiga music modules he

http://totem.fix.no/pub/mods/

MODs can be played back on modern Windows systems with e.g. WinAmp, but
the built-in mod player in WinAmp is not all that good. Fortunately,
there is a plugin which fixes this (for the most part) and also has a
slider adjustment for mixing the left and right channels together a bit,
making the listening experience better with headphones:

http://www.rift.dk/page.php?1

(The sound chip that was originally used in the Amiga computers assigned
two of its internal channels to the left side and two other to the
right. This was a fixed configuration: you could not adjust the balance
in any way, except via CPU-intensive software mixing, which was not used
with the MOD format. Many MOD players on other platforms try to emulate
this fixed channel configuration, but this kind of authenticity is not
really the best way to experience the tunes with headphones.)

There are also some music player applications that specifically cater
for the MOD format (and related formats):

http://www.deliplayer.com/
http://www.modplug.com/

--
znark

In message , Simon Mayo
writes
I have a JVC camcorder which records to hard drive. The files are given
a.MOD format. This format is not recognised by Adobe Premiere Pro. Does any
one have any suggestions to help me with this problem? I have tried Xilisoft
file converter but converting the files with this programme reduces their
size and quality below an acceptable level.

Unfortunately, the JVC Everio, and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card range
camcorders use a relatively unsupported file format. They are designed
for the "point-and-shoot-and-replay" users who are unlikely to want to
do any editing.

There is a forum thread at:
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/9735p2.html
which might help - though the solutions don't seem to be very
satisfactory.

As someone in that thread says: "That’s the crappy part about these
straight to DVD/tapeless camcorders. They are nice theoretically, but a
PAIN when editing."

--
Tony Morgan

I now understand where the .MOD file format comes from but why do they use
it for camcorders when it is a sound format and how do I make it
recognisable by Adobe Premiere Pro?

"Simon Mayo" wrote in message
...
I have a JVC camcorder which records to hard drive. The files are given
a.MOD format. This format is not recognised by Adobe Premiere Pro. Does any
one have any suggestions to help me with this problem? I have tried
Xilisoft file converter but converting the files with this programme
reduces their size and quality below an acceptable level.

In message , Simon Mayo
writes
I now understand where the .MOD file format comes from but why do they use
it for camcorders when it is a sound format and how do I make it
recognisable by Adobe Premiere Pro?

Haven't you read the forum as I suggested?

Had you bothered, you would have seen that Premiere does *not* support
MOD file formats, nor can it be made to do so (nor do most video
editing programs).

Here. I'll give you the link again:
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/9735p2.html

By my understanding there, you'll have to buy Cyberlink Power Director
and use that to first convert your video to AVI.

--
Tony Morgan

Maybe Total Video Converter can work for that.
http://www.effectmatrix.com

Simon Mayo wrote:

I now understand where the .MOD file format comes from but why do
they use it for camcorders when it is a sound format

They don't. Apparently someone has just used the same filename extension
for an unrelated video format.

--
znark

avs video converter http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/avs-video-tools.htm