I bought the 445 for its high definition, small size and 40x zoom. However the film is jerky and at high zoom the digital image stabilisation is hopeless. It doesn’t have optical stabilisation and the image is very poor for filming moving images.

I tried filming birds feeding in the garden using the 40x zoom but the result was jerky with continuous little jumps in the film. My old Sony Mini DVD camcorder using standard definition at 40x zoom is better than the Everio.

Then there is the ridiculous recording format which doesn’t work on any of my video editing software. Windows won’t even recognise the camcorder when using either USB or slotting the SD card directly into my laptop. I had to download a video conversion programme to get the JVC film to play and be edited in my other better software. In fact the Everio software doesn’t even open automatically when plugging in the SD card.

The whole package is fussy and poor quality. Frankly I will never buy another JVC product.

A limited version comes when you buy an Everio JVC Camcorder.

Eventually I bought the fulle version of their Power Director

It has a lot more functions than I need or use, but if you are artistic you can add lots of effects.

I try Camista(?) but it didn’t work.

works perfectly http://www.webcollation.co.uk/MOD_Files.php

Use the Director Software to edit your video.
It is not necessary to, but you can put fancy transitions between each scene eg fade, domino effect etc. With or without these fancy extras, when film is rendered to either a file or disc using either Power Director or Power Producer, I don’t get any gaps, so other than that I am unable to help.

I too can not get WMM to work. Altering the extension to .MPG allows windows media player, as well as another media app, to play the files just fine on my winxp system. However, I get the same wrong codec error regardless of whether or not the extensions are changed. I downloaded an MPEG codec (MPEGDecoder12) even, and WMM does not work whether it is checked in the Options/Compatibility menu or not.

I even downloaded SD Copy (which was quite difficult to find as the URL listed above does not seem to be in use). It “converted” all the files to MPG, however, I still get the same codec error! Any ideas?

Out of desperation I downloaded Prism which at a very slow rate did convert the files to .wmv, and they actually worked in WMM! So that’s a start, but, I am concerned about quality, the size is a bit larger, and I’d prefer not to go through the converting .wmv process for a number of reasons.

If anyone has good ideas about a way to still “convert” the .MOD files to .MPG so they will work in WMM using free software, please help!