Brian Bell » everio http://webguru.org Bits of web-dev, travel and personal musings... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 How to fix the widescreen issue with your Everio GZ-MGxxx camcorder http://webguru.org/2008/06/19/general/how-to-fix-the-widescreen-issue-with-your-everio-gz-mgxxx-camcorder/ http://webguru.org/2008/06/19/general/how-to-fix-the-widescreen-issue-with-your-everio-gz-mgxxx-camcorder/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:11:10 +0000 Brian http://webguru.org/2008/06/19/general/how-to-fix-the-widescreen-issue-with-your-everio-gz-mgxxx-camcorder/ So, for Christmas 2007 I got a JVC Everio GZ-MG130U HDD video camera. I love it! The video quality is great, the battery is pretty good, you record straight to HDD (30GB in my case) and you can even record in 16:9.  JVC Everio GZ-MG130U

But… you can’t playback in 16:9… what??!?!?!  Yeah, for some reason JVC doesn’t write the proper widescreen flag properly in ther MPEG2-PS file format (for which they use the .MOD extension). So, how do you fix your videos?

You can either do some time-consuming and manual work with your favorite video editing suite (Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, etc), or you can download SDCopy – a freeware utility that someone wrote to handle this issue.

I learned about it here – Canon Elura User Information  Awesome!!!

You will probably need to google for the file to find a copy – but I was able to locate one which I *think* was hosted by the author of the utility.  |
Google: sdcopy video utility

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