This is resolved!

I had 'mounted' the camcorder and copied the .MOD files to my hard drive.
Then following José's suggestion I just renamed the .MOD to .mpg and I
was then able to double-click on the renamed file and in Windows and
Windows Media player played it just fine. I put that file into SE
(VT-5) and it looked OK sitting there but had no audio - and when I
tried to delete it out of the project - it crashed VT5 -- (it stopped
responding) -- I had to to End Program from Windows Task Manager
(twice) to kill the hung VT process.

To fix the audio, I used a tool Blaine suggested...
http://labs.trms.com/fixmpeg/

This worked fine and the resulting .mpg from the tool loaded up into
SE (VT5) and was letter boxed (in a 4:3 project) and the audio was OK.

Thanks all for your suggestions and help...

John P - if I'm taking the hint correctly I can give you one of these
.MOD clips -- let me know.

\Dave
www.beacondigitalvideo.com




2009/7/8 José Burgos <>:
>
>
> Just for the heck of it, can you rename the .mod too .mpg and see if it
> loads into SE please.
> Not saying it will work but mod is encoded in a kind of MPEG encoding and it
> is worth a try.
>