JVC EVERIO .MOV AND .MOD IMPORTING

You also need 3rd party utils like MPEG Streamclip to convert the material to .dv which iMovie uses.

See also "How can I edit MPEG or convert DVD or MPEG to DV":

http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG

I am hoping that once i download the quicktime mpeg-2
playback plugin that imovie will be able to import
this format? can anyone help?

Quick answer - NO!

The extra component the (MPEG-2) will ONLY let you see and
playback those JVC .MOD files.

By (renaming) the .MOD files so that they read with either .MP2 or MPG,
Quicktime does playback your files.... but -- I CAUTION -- without any sound. Don't fear, the sound is there though -- these renamed MOD files are really MPEG2 MUXED files. So both audio and video are one track.

HOWEVER, after renaming them (even without the MPEG-2 component and QTPRO) iMovie is clever enough to do the MPG2 to DV conversion on it's own.You will find a saved DV stream of your (renamed MOD file) within your iMovie project as .DV file. Ready to edit -- Again -- without sound.

I got quite frustrated with this myself... but my co-worker was the true hero in all this. He tried his VisualHub program that he recently bought... and we found that the renamed MP2 file was converted to a USABLE .DV stream with SOUND for iMovie and QT playback... again without the MPEG-2 component.

Hurray - but that would be a extra expense to me.

STRANGLY, Toast 6 took the these JVC renamed files and let me successfully made a DVD that was perfect, that is, with sound and all.
So, I next used the Handbrake which made a MP4 file that I found imports into iMovie well enough for my purposes

I liked the idea of seeing my MOD files in QT even without sound... it who give me an idea of what I have before doing anything.
I am considering getting the VisualHub and Apples MPEG-2 component.

hope that helps you.

If you use the Capty Edit software you get with the Everio Camcorder to combine your .MOD files you can then export them in DV format which iMovie can import.

MPEG Streamclip is all you need.

I have a JVC microdrive camera and simply copy the files to my HDD then open each .mod file in MPEG Streamclip which allows you to export as Quicktime and set all of your own parameters. Save the files as DV-Ntsc Quicktimes and drag into iMovie. Simple as that.

dvd - thanks for the advice, I had to buy the Apple MPEG-2 QT add-on to make it work, but now it converts to DV in a fraction of the time the JVC software takes!! Fantastic - saved me hours of watching a progress bar...