Having trouble getting my movie clips to my Mac...

Hello!
I recently bought my first Macbook (Macbook Pro), my old notebook being a Vaio. My mom is using my old one, so to clear up memory for her, I'm trying to move all of my important files to the Mac. I burnt a bunch of pictures and documents to a disk and transferred them easily enough, but upon burning and attempting to transfer my movie clips, I had no such luck. It doesn't recognize the format of the movies...whatever that format may be. I can't find that either, but I recorded the clips with a Canon camera (it has FS100 written on it) and viewed and edited them with Windows Movie Maker. Now, I can't open any of my clips from the disk that I had burnt. They still play just fine on the old notebook. I have no idea how to move them to my Mac so that I can view and edit them into a polished little movie there. Please help if you can! Thanks in advance!
~Christina
P.S.: The operating system that I put is probably not correct, since I don't remember where to find it, but I remember seeing Mac OS X many times before.

Hi Christina, belated welcome to Apple Discussions if nobody said it already.
I've had some experiences with these new flash memory recording camcorders, and I'll give you a quick rundown of what I've learned. Many of them (JVC, Panasonic, etc.) tend to record in a .MOD file format, which is non-standard, proprietary, and unrecognizable by most software. I thought Canon was usually a little more standards-compliant, but it appears they also use this .MOD format in your specific camera model. There are likely a couple ways we can get around this though!
In order to play the files, you will likely need to change their file format (.MOD) to .AVI manually. You'll have to locate the files on your Mac, and then manually change the file names so that the file extension (after the period) is .AVI
At that point, a video player application such as http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html>VLC should play the files fine!
You should be able to transfer new video files from the camera to the Macbook Pro with no problems as well. Just plug in the camera to the computer via USB, and also make sure the camera is plugged in to charge. Once it's plugged in, open iMovie (came with the MBP, in the Applications folder) and the MBP should take care of the rest.
Let me know if you have any success with any of this!
FYI, the thread that I got some of the above information from is here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=478326
--Travis

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