• Adobe After Effects

  Can´t import .MOD files into AE CS3

  Posted by Roel Vennekens on January 28, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  Hi, I recently got a JVC Everio GZ-MG27E HDD Camcorder and it’s great, but when I try to import the movie files (.MOD extension), After Effects says the file type is not supported.
  Renaming the files to .mpg won’t work either.
  Premiere Pro allows me to import the files, but I need to edit them in After Effects and if I render them as .avi files in premiere, it looks terrible.

  Can someone help me?
  My system: Windows Vista Business 32 Bit
  Pentium IV 3.2 GhZ
  1028 MB RAM
  ATI RADEON X740XL
  After Effects CS3
  Premiere Pro CS3.

  Any help would be great..

  Dennis Volkerts replied 15 years, 11 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Mike Love

  February 17, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  I have this problem too (with a different JVC model) and the ony solution I could find was to export them as MPG files from Premiere Elements (can’t afford Pro!) and import them to AE. Haven’t found a direct import plugin for AE.
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  Johan Andersson

  April 15, 2009 at 3:00 pm

  I found away around this problem,
  Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker
  have no problems with .MOD files.

  I import the file to Windows Movie Maker and then
  save it from there as WMV file with good quality
  maintained. Then this WMV is accepted by Adobe After
  Effect.
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  Dennis Volkerts

  September 11, 2010 at 8:49 am

  This is not realy a good workaround. you will loose quality
  There must be a plugin to open it into AE.

  if you dont want to loose quality you can ofcourse export it to a uncompressed avi or targa sequence.

  holy Cow!

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