Broken film strip thumbnails on my video files

I need help, please? I have downloaded a bunch of videos from my Panasonic camcorder to my organizer in Photoshop Elements 6 and all the thumbnails are a black and white broken film strip..they have a file extension of MOD. I can double click on them and see them, but there is no sound. These are very important videos of my Grandson and I don't want to lose them. All the other videos from my Canon camera are in AVI and work fine. Can someone help me retrieve these videos? I am new to these forums so if anyone has an answer could you please contact me at my e-mail address [email protected] Thank you.

Try changing the file name from .mod to .mpg
If you can’t see the file extension as part of the name try this in Windows:
1. Open the explorer window where the folder where your files are located.
2. Select the Tools à Folder Options
3. Click the View Tab
4. Uncheck the option to “Hide extensions for known file types”
5. Click “apply or apply to All Folders.
6. Click ok and close
7. You should now be able see all the file extensions when you browse to your folder of videos.
8. Right click on a filename you wish to change and select Rename
9. Change the last three letter to mpg and hit return.
They should play in Windows Media Player or QuickTime and hopefully be recognized by Elements unless you need a missing codec.

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