Working with .MOD clips

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Before I go on I can see I'm asked if I want to use or delete the recovered version (of this content?) I'll do nothing if i can until I know what it means!   Now about .MOD - Since I could not see much listing about the topic I'd like to share my successful finding about it.  I have had my share of trouble with my HD clip and thank the forum for all the help I received to get me through and so I hope this will help others who have trouble with .mod files.  Yes after my trouble with HD I thought I'd be cruising with my friend footage in SD. You'd thought Adobe would have handled something like this the easy way - no "format not supported"! This is when I googled and eventually found the right answer. The trick is to "convert" these .mod clips into (I think mpeg2), That is to change the extension to .M2V (as you can see it's not a real conversion)  - This may seems simple for many as for me all I could see in the directory was name without extensions! Ah, you may say, you need to un-hide them. But what about the .MOI? I can see them and I don't think it is because I'm French (moi je suis vraiement Francais! ). Further more if you right click on one of these clip's name and choose "Rename" You still won't see the extension and if you add one, although you can't see it it's actually added to the invisible extension so you'll end up with xxxxx.mod.m2v although you'll see only xxxx.m2v! Luckily, I came across Turkov's Blog:(http://eturkov.blogspot.com/2008/05/working-with-mod-files-in-adobe.html) "Working with .mod files in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3" - (I use CS4)  Now I've given the site I won't explain in details how it's done. as you can check it for yourself. It is very well laid down with clear screen shots. but you must follow all the steps thoroughly. Back to the ext. name change - it is done through "cmd" command and needs a little juggling for those like me who used it once in a decade, but again it's clearly indicated.   The other and first thing a should have mentioned is to enable pp to accept .m2v you need to download a .dll file and put it to the adobe root directory. Again I was not too sure how to do it but went into the Adobe collection then Premiere CS? and there saw all those .dll so added to it (I can feel all the sneering, still I'm proud of myself!). as for the renaming I had little trial and error about entering the renaming command as it was not quite clear whether or not there were spaces in it. I found that:>space ren space *.mod space m2 v (> ren *mod *movEnter) was right for me! I also read somewhere that the renaming can be done through Adobe Bridge, but I have not used since CS2!  The cmd approach will rename easilly a whole folder.  Happy as Larry I imported the folder into PP and all was so good, I played a few clips with no problem.  Half way through my clips suddenly all went very wrong. Screen ghosted, PP not responding any more, non adobe stuff appearing in my source monitor - total stuff up.  Back to the instructions... Last step about conforming the clips, so eager I missed it! One needs to select all the new imported clips and open the "interpret the footage" I'm using PAL and used the only "wide screen" option available that is a little different than NTSC example But it must have been right! I also noticed that the "interpret footage" field was ghosted under "file" but worked when I right clicking within the project window.  There you are, 'hope it helps....After re editing this I hope I have not been to enthusiastic as I seem to have a lot of difficulty rendering my clips on the time line getting a lot of program freeze.

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Thank Guys for all this, I have no idea of what is SDCopy may be will need to have a look at it. I'm using Chrome so will hit 3 returns to create a space!
   I also mentioned earlier that I could not find any listing here for this topic but since found "What is the best way to handle .mod files in Premiere CS4", with much contribution and interesting material. One needs to widen question format to get result!   I just tackled the next folder of such clips with bizarre  behaviour. I first went through the cmd rename routine then imported in PP cs4 with unpleasant result as the system was quite instable. The size of this folder was 1.79 gb (it also contained .xmp file, not imported but puzzling, as I don't know where they come from since I sorted the original folder, not containing such files, and imported only .mod in the new folder within to rename!) I then deleted the lot and decided to import one clip at the time, then interpret the footage and put it on the time line, reduce the size to fit safe area and hit Enter to render. So far it went well so I increased the number of clips import gradually and up to 500 meg. still no problem. However my last import, about 300meg. freezed about on the first quarter. I looked at the content and found one file about 100mg that seemed to be at the problem spot. I removed it and tried to render the remaining, had no more problem! That clip was actually one where my friend forgot to switch the camera off (lucky for him he was wearing good looking shoes!) And lucky for me since I did not need it.
   Some of the reading I have done seems to imply that renaming is not the best way to go about and it looks like I should remove the manufacture mpeg 2 "envelope" through a proper file conversion. What I have got now is 2 .AVI  file that don't look too bad and need to edit as the only edit i have done is bring the clips to the safe screen size in the program monitor. (it's a good fit in the source monitor but far to large in the program monitor!?). I can't really tell if I have lost a lot of quality.  I still wonder why 90% of these clips are ok but some give me such trouble.