How can I glue these parts together? (thanks)

[ramox9x]

Hello all!
Please help me with my next issue: I am having a sony handycam with hdd. I have several video shoots from a specific day. The size of these shoots is 3,2 Gb. I would like to "glue" them together and make one single movie to burn on a dvd so I can watch them on my home dvd player. The extension of these files is mpg and they are coming with a .modd file (app 1-2k) <- I don't know what these files are for.

I tried the simplest way - windows movie makes but I get the next error: "The file cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer".

So, how can I "glue" the parts together in one single compact movie? I don't want menus or other things, just the video.

[Case]

Check the Tools section with search keyword 'join'.
These results seem to fit: Mpg2Cut2 or TMPGEnc or Boilsoft Video Joiner.

[Baldrick]

https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-editors-mpg-dvd


Or add all mpgs in same title if you are authoring a dvd, with for example dvd flick.

[usually_quiet]

I Googled ".modd files". Apparently modd files contain information about the pictures and videos stored on the camera's HDD. The camera and perhaps any software Sony provided can use them but they don't contain any video themselves.

You don't need them to join the .mpg files, which contain the video. Just use one of the suggestions in the posts above for that.

[ramox9x]

This .mpg format stored by the camera it's ok for the usual stand alone home DVD players? I mean it's readable or I should convert them to .avi or something else?

Thanks a lot for your replies guys.

[usually_quiet]

This .mpg format stored by the camera it's ok for the usual home dvd players? I mean it's readable or I should convert them to .avi or something else?

Thanks a lot for your replies guys.

You probably need to author your files (DVDFlick is one program you might try for this) and then burn to DVD using a good burning program (ImgBurn is the best one I know of) to play the files on a home DVD player.

[MOVIEGEEK]

This .mpg format stored by the camera it's ok for the usual stand alone home DVD players? I mean it's readable or I should convert them to .avi or something else?

Thanks a lot for your replies guys.

DVD and Blu-ray both support MPEG-2 so yes MPG is preferred, if you transferring video via firewire then you have to save it as DV-AVI. When editing video it's better to use DV-AVI because you won't lose as much quality and WMM supports it.