All Mac user are familiar with ProRes and Apple Intermediate Codec(AIC). The Apple Intermediate Codec is a video codec designed by Apple, Inc to be an intermediate format in an HDV workflow. It features high performance and quality, being less processor intensive to work with than other editing formats. Unlike native MPEG-2 based HDV – and similar to the standard-definition DV codec – AIC does not use temporal compression, enabling every frame to be decoded immediately without decoding other frames. As a result of this, AIC takes three to four times more space than HDV.
AIC is available only on the Mac OS X platform and cannot be read on other platforms to date such as Windows or Linux. All Mac OS X software which makes use of the QuickTime codec libraries – primarily Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, and iMovie, but also shareware such as Pavtube Mac MOD to Apple Codec Converter – can use the Apple Intermediate codec, Apple ProRes, DVCPRO, HDV, Avid DNxHD.
How to convert MOD to AIC(Apple Intermediate Codec) for Final Cut Express
Step 1:Free download and run Pavtube MOD to apple codec Converte. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the footages and load MOD files to the MOD to AIC Converter.
Step 2. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar. Edit MOD files in Final Cut Express, find Final Cut Pro->Apple Intermediate Codec in the pull-down list and choose it.If you want to edit camcorder MOD files in Final Cut Studio, select Apple ProRes 422. Convert MTS to ProRes
Step 3. Click the ‘Settings’ button and set proper video/ audio parameters. My advice is to set the video size, bitrate and fame rate to be exactly as the footages so that you will suffer least quality degradation. For example, when the video is shot at 1920*1080, 5mbps, 30fps, you could set Size-1920*1080, Bitrate-original, Frame rate-30. If you would like to use default settings, simply skip this step.
Step 4. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Output File Name field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.
Step 5. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files. Then edit these JVC,Canon,Panasonic camcorder MOD files in Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express and iMovie smoothly and fast.
Pavtube Mac MOD to Apple Codec Converter Small Tips:
- Preview the video- select it in file list and click ‘Preview’ button.
- Thumbnail- click ‘Snapshoot’ button when previewing the video. Click ‘Option’ to set the image format of screenshots.
- Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it.
- Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.
- Convert MTS to Apple Intermediate Codec
