Miro Video Converter Not Living Up To It's Potential

Miro's "super simple" video converter has worked great for my music video editing - for the sheer fact that the sound on my music videos were made through GarageBand '08. However, I have restlessly been trying to edit a class project on Final Cut Express HD 3.0 of which I have already filmed with my JVC Everio. However, as most Macintosh - based video editors already know, JVC's video recording format is done through a .MOD file. And as most of you already know, Final Cut Express, iMovie, or any other corresponding Macintosh - based video editing program cannot import .MOD files which in my case must be transferred to a .MOV or .MP4 file in order to be importable to any of the previously listed programs. So, this wonderful video transferring program called, "Miro Video Converter" would solve my non - readable .MOD JVC Everio file problem in order for me to import with my copy of Final Cut Express HD 3.0. However, despite the fact Miro's wonderful software transfers my .MOD to a .MP4 (.MOD to .MOV not available to Miro's video converter), the sound quality in my videos is wretched. The video quality (recorded in 720 X 480 resolution in a high quality format) is incredible for a free converter. The sound quality, however, makes my ears bleed. The sound quality of every song I have in my iTunes Library is set to 80 kbps (kilobytes per second; for those of you who are unsure) which is pretty bad to begin with (they're in such a low quality because I only had an 8 GB iPod nano and I was trying to jam it full of songs), however, the sound quality at which Miro's "super simple" Video Converter transfers to is 64 kbps and is just horrible. Why Miro? If you are trying to sell us or basically give us a free video converter, please give us one with sound quality from a range such as 112 kbps to around 128 kbps. Miro should be ashamed with what they've given us. I had to speak my word on this issue because I am absolutely positive there are other people like myself who have the same problem with finding the right free video converter that involves transferring a .MOD file to a .MOV or .MP4 file. If you may also be a video editor such as myself, please let me know if you have this problem and what video transferring program you may have used to solve the problem. If you are someone such as myself who has encountered this problem, please feel free to leave a comment and express your opinion and subscribe if you want me to go on a petty rant about more video converting programs that should be ashamed of themselves. Feel free to leave comments below.

M. Thompson
FilmSicle Productions Inc.
(Macintosh - based Home Video Editing & Audio Production)