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TOD Converter Mac



TOD Converter Mac is a professional TOD converter to convert high definition video files captured by JVC TOD Camcorders, ie: GZ-HD7, GZ-HD3, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, GZ-HD40 etc. These HD files can be converted into MPG, AVI, MP4, MOV, 3GP, RM, FLV, SWF and more, which delights many JVC TOD Camcorders. With TOD Converter for Mac, you can trim, add effect, or crop VOD files to satisfy your needs on will while converting to other formats.

TOD Converter Mac OS X gives all authority for TOD converting. All conversions are pretty easy to handle with this TOD Converter Mac. No matter you want to convert between various video and audio formats, or capture pictures, or extract audios you love from videos, or even create video from pictures.

Main Functions of TOD Converter Mac:
Convert between almost all popular video formats;

Extract soundtrack from video & convert between audio files;

Take snapshots and store them in different image formats;

Make video for various media players;

Video Cropping;

Trimming;

Effect and special effects;

Total free of Adware and spyware;

Online technical support and periodically program update service for free.

Tips about TOD Converter Mac
Firstly, download and install TOD Converter for Mac until interface pops up (picture showed underneath).



Tip 1: you can press , then come out a panel. You can directly set starttime and endtime in the left side of the panel and this converter will calculate automatically the exact length or just drag in the bar in the player on the right of panel to set the length and this will achive the same result.

Tip 2: press and tune the saturation, contrast, brightness values and make sure are the one you preferred, preview the change on the screen.

Tip 3: you can crop the unnecessary part,for instance black part when you click and set zoom, aspect in the pop-up window.

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TOD File Converter Mac,
TOD Editor Mac,
Convert TOD To AVI Mac,
Convert TOD To MPEG Mac,
Convert TOD To MOV Mac,
Convert TOD To MP4 Mac,
Convert TOD To FLV Mac,
Convert TOD To DV Mac,
Convert TOD To MKV Mac,
Convert TOD To VOB Mac,
Convert TOD To DVD Mac,
Convert TOD To QuickTime Mac,
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Convert TOD To MP3 Mac,
Convert TOD To iPod Mac,
Convert TOD To iPhone Mac,
Convert TOD To Apple TV Mac

Do you have a JVC camcorder? If the answer is yea-saying, you must be familiar with the MOD and TOD files. However, I also suppose that you must have encountered some troubles caused by the two formats more or less. This article will tell you what are MOD and TOD, and how to convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Mac.
Below are its main 4 parts and I am going to demenstrate it.
Part 1: What are MOD and TOD formats
Part 2: The difference between MOD and TOD
Part 3: How to convert MOD or TOD to common video files on Mac OS for further enjoyment on iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc.

Part 1: What are MOD and TOD formats
In order to meet people’s different kinds of requirements in video recording, camcorder manufacturers have developed numerous types of camcorders. However, the recorded formats produced by these camcorders are various and special, and are not widely accepted by Mac or most portable devices we often use in daily life; therefore, these formats usually bring some troubles to camcorder users, MOD and TOD are the two formats among them.
Both MOD and TOD are the informal tapeless video formats produced by certain digital camcorders. And both of them have never been given to any meaning explanations or official names by their creators JVC or Panasonic.

Part 2: The difference between MOD and TOD
1、MOD are used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on, while TOD is only used by JVC camcorders, like JVC GZ-HD7, GZ-HD5, GZ-HD6, GZ-HD30, and GZ-HD40
2、MOD is only used for standard definition video files, while TOD is exclusively used for high definition video files.

Part 3: How to convert MOD or TOD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, 3GP, MP4, FLV, etc. on Mac OS for further enjoyment on iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc.
Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac will be introduced to help you convert MOD and TOD files generated by JVC camcorders on Mac. With the converted videos, you are able to playback on portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc; edit with iMovie; upload online for sharing; and so forth. Now let’s start.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube TOD Converter for Mac.

Step 2: Select formats and do advanced settings
Add your recorded MOD or TOD files to it, and select whatever formats you need from the drop-down list of “Format”. If you want to edit with iMovie, you can select MOV or MP4; to play on your cell phone, you can select 3GP; to play on iPod or iPhone, you can select MP4; to share online, you can select FLV.

Meanwhile, you are allowed to do some advanced settings according to your own requirements. For instance, you can reset the screen size or change the bit rate. Increase the bit rate, video quality will be improved, while file size will be enlarged. Decrease the bit rate, file size will be reduced, while quality is inferior to the original.



Step 3: Export To
Set which destination folder the output files will be exported to. You can export them to the default path or specify a path to locate them by clicking “Browse”.

Step 3: Convert
Click “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to start converting.
Once you have finished these editing and converting jobs, you can deal with the resulted videos with ease: Export MP4 or MOV files to iMovie to do further editing, or export 3GP files to your cell phone for playback, or export AVI or MPEG files to PPT to vivify your presentation, or export MP4 files to play on your iPod or iPhone, or export FLV files to upload to video websites to share with others, all in all, you can do whatever you like with them.

Tips:
1. The converting speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar converters. Batch conversion can be done in a few minutes. Merge multiple files into one file is also available.

2. It does not have the audio-video sync issues.

3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

4. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain video clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

5. Specific effect models are provided, such as “Simple gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and “Invert”.