Help with JVC Everio on a MAC?

JVC Everio on Mac, HELP!?

• So I just taped my daughter's first crawl and I went to upload the video on the computer to share with family and when I open it directly with the USB cord hooked up to the camera the movie doesn't show, when I put the memory card in the card reader the videos from today do not show, expect one 6 second one. You can view the videos of today on the camera but from some reason the computer isn't detecting it. Can someone please help

• Answer:

  JVC flash memory and hard disc drive consumer grade camcorders save to an odd MOD format than neither Windows nor Macintosh can deal with directly. In either case, transcoding the MOD file to something more useful is required. Try MPEG StreamClip from www.squared5.com or HandBrake from www.handbrake.fr iMovie likes MOV and MP4 video files. Best quality will come from low compression, large file size video files. VLC Player and Flip4Mac are also very useful to have...