How to Convert MOD to MOV on Mac OS X?

With its high capture quality and convenience usage, JVC Everio camcorders are fond by lots of "die-hard" video fans. It's a dream tool for filming your own indie movies, recording favorite musical concert and so on. As we know, camcorder files are mostly MOD files especially JVC files. Now here comes the question: how could you convert your MOD to MOV on Mac so that you can play, edit and optimize the files with iMovie or QuickTime?

To convert MOD to MOV Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included), a helpful tool is a must. This article is a step by step guide showing you how the MOD to MOV Mac conversion can be with the assistant of Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac which would play a vital role in the Mac MOD to MOV task. Here shows the whole process.

As mentioned above, free download Aimersoft Total Media Converter for Mac first, install and run it.

1Step1:

As you probably see on the website, the MOD to MOV Mac app is a professional Mac converter which has a broad format support so that it enables you to convert MOD to MOV on Mac as freely and easily as possible.

Here you need load your MOD files into the MOD to MOV converter for Mac. If you have several MOD file segments and you want to merge them as one MOV file, just tick "Merge into One File". Please preview it/them first before you start converting.

2 Step 2:

Click the "" button on the thumbnail, select "Common Video" and Choose ‘MOV-QuickTime (*.mov)' from the dropdown list. If you have no idea what kind of formats that your device supports, just choose according to the device's name.

3Step3:

Click "Start" button to begin converting MOD to MOV on Mac. After the conversion process, open the output file and you will see your converted MOV file is there waiting for you!

Before the convert process, we advise you check the setting first. If you don't know how to set your video files, the original values will work just fine.

Useful Tips

What is MOV?
MOV is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. The format was created by Apple Computer to work with multimedia files. MOV is a container format and can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content or text (for subtitles, for example).

What is MOD?
MOD is the informal name of tapeless video formats used by JVC (MOD and TOD), Panasonic (MOD only) and Canon (MOD only) in some models of digital camcorders. Neither JVC nor Panasonic, who pioneered the format, explained meaning of the file extensions, and the formats were never given an official name. MOD is used exclusively for standard definition video files, while TOD is used for high definition files. The known camcorder models that use the .MOD format are: JVC: GZ-MG30, GZ-MG70, GZ-MG37, GZ-MG77, GZ-MG505, GZ-MG130, GZ-MG155, GZ-MG255, GZ-MG555 Panasonic: SDR-S100, SDR-S150, SDR-S10, SDR-H18, SDR-H200, SDR-H40, SDR-H60, SDR-SW20 Canon: FS100, FS10, FS11.