Alright, know there are a few folk on here who edit video so though I'd run this past y'all.
I'm trying to make some simple non-quality videos using Movie Maker (I know, but it's basic, free and fine for my needs) with a few clips from a mate's camcorder, but not having much luck.
I'm not sure, but the issue seems to be that the camcorder (JVC if I remember rightly) appears to only generate .MOD files, which is a new one on me.
As far as I can tell, Movie Maker doesn't like .MODs at all, can't import them, and when I googled around a bit the main advice seemed to be "change the file extension to .mpg or .avi", which I tried but now MM imports them, but thinks they're audio files so I get sound but no pictures. Bizarrely Media Player does recognise them if I do this, and I get full video playback with sound!
Arrrghhh!
Anyone got any beta on how to get through this - I think my options seem to be:
a) Get new editing software - not keen as it'll only be only odd Font trip or whatever I'll need it for
b) Get hold of a file conversion app - not sure whether this will solve the problem, won't it be the same as renaming them .avi?
c) Get a camcorder that uses a more commonly recognised file type
On a), is it worth forking out for Vegas / whatever the Adobe equivalent is? Any preferences amongst the UKB Vimeo crew?
On c), out of interest is there a "standard" out there? I'd be annoyed if I forked out a couple of hundred on a new camcorder only to find it can only make videos in V-grades or some other similarly ridiculous standard...
Cheers in advance all,
TTT
