Transcribe a long MOD file from an old standard-definition camcorder.
A long MOD file from a standard-definition camcorder is transcribed at about 2 minutes per audio hour: a 2-hour recording takes roughly 4 minutes and uses 120 minutes of the $6 pack of 500. MOD video runs about 2 to 4 GB an hour, so a long one is best sent as MP3 or MP4, up to 10 hours or 5 GB, and the first 20 minutes are free.
MOD, explained
Ten-year-old camcorder footage with a lot of talking in it.
What records MOD
A generation of standard-definition camcorders that wrote to a hard drive or SD card saved video as numbered .MOD files, usually with a matching .MOI file beside each one. Lectures, school events, family interviews and church services from that era often sit in this format.
Size per hour
MOD is MPEG-2 video at roughly 5 to 9 Mbps, which works out to about 2 to 4 GB per hour depending on the quality setting. A 2-hour recording at the top setting can pass the 2 GB that uploads before a pack.
Upload as is, or convert
Many players open a MOD if it is renamed to .MPG, since the video inside is the same. Try the file; if the upload refuses it, convert to MP3 or MP4 with ffmpeg or VLC, which also shrinks a long one a great deal.
What you get
A brief, chapters with timestamps, the names, places and dates people said, the questions the recording answers, and a chat to ask what was decided or who spoke about what.
Before and after
Old camcorder files are hard to open and harder to search.
✗ A drive of MOD files
The footage survived; nobody can find anything in it.
- Files named MOV001.MOD with no dates shown
- Players that will not open the format
- A long event split across several files
- Squashed picture without the .MOI file
- Gigabytes per hour for spoken content
- Interviews nobody has watched in years
✓ A transcript per recording
Convert if needed, then upload each recording.
- MP3 of about 58 MB per hour
- Two hours transcribed in about 4 minutes
- Chapters at each speaker or topic
- Speakers named in the summary and quotes
- 120 minutes of the $6 pack for two hours
- DOCX and TXT to archive with the footage
Sample
A family interview on a hard-drive camcorder.
An illustrative interview written for this page, not real footage.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
MOD file questions.
How long does a 2-hour MOD file take?
Roughly 4 minutes once it has uploaded. Converting a MOD to MP3 first adds a few minutes on most computers, and the smaller file uploads far faster.
What does an archive of MOD footage cost?
Two hours is 120 minutes on the $6 pack of 500. A box of recordings totalling 15 hours is 900 minutes, on the $12 pack of 2,000. Credits never expire, so you can work through it slowly.
Does the upload accept MOD?
Not always, so hedge your bets: try it, and if the upload refuses it, convert to MP3 or MP4 with ffmpeg or VLC. Renaming to .MPG lets many tools read it without re-encoding.
Do I need the .MOI files?
Not for a transcript. They hold dates and picture shape for the camcorder's own software; the speech is in the MOD. Keep them with the footage anyway if you plan to edit the video later.
What about a file over 2 GB?
Up to 5 GB per file, but over 2 GB starts once a pack is on the account. As MP3 the same recording is a small fraction of that.
Which exports come back, and is the footage private?
Each recording saves as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, so the text can sit in the same folder as the footage. Camcorder recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and family interviews stay yours.
Related
Other camcorder files.
Bring the old camcorder footage. First 20 minutes free on a first visit.
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