{"id":547,"date":"2011-08-09T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2011-08-09T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:33:15","slug":"convert-mod-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/convert-mod-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert MOD files"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Conversion of .MOD files used on Panasonic camcorders.<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"SDcopy V1.99 Beta by Sektionschef\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SDCopy-by-Sektionschef.zip\" target=\"_blank\">SDCopy by Sektionschef<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-549\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/convert-mod-files\/sdcopy-screenshot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549\" title=\"sdcopy-screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sdcopy-screenshot.png\" alt=\"SDcopy V1.99 Beta by Sektionschef\" width=\"259\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sdcopy-screenshot.png 259w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sdcopy-screenshot-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 85vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SDcopy V1.99 Beta by Sektionschef<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a title=\"Explanation of .mod files\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MOD_and_TOD\" target=\"_blank\">.mod files<\/a> will play if you just change the file extension from .mod to .mpeg however if you do that and you recorded on your camera in 16:9 it will try and read the file as if it was shot in 4:3 resulting in a squashed picture. A few years ago, a kind person wrote some software to fix this and gave it away free. Unfortunately his website is gone now, so a copy of the software can be <a title=\"SDcopy V1.99 Beta by Sektionschef\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/SDCopy-by-Sektionschef.zip\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded from here<\/a>. I use \u201cSDcopy V1.99\u00a0 by Sektionschef\u201d for all my .mod file conversions from my Panasonic SDR-SW20 it doesn\u2019t squish the picture and it seems to be a \u201clossless\u201d file conversion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conversion of .MOD files used on Panasonic camcorders. SDCopy by Sektionschef .mod files will play if you just change the file extension from .mod to .mpeg however if you do that and you recorded on your camera in 16:9 it will try and read the file as if it was shot in 4:3 resulting in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/convert-mod-files\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Convert MOD files&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[137,138,136,135],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno-wibble","tag-mod","tag-mpg","tag-panasonic","tag-sdcopy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}