Getting Video into the iPod Video

[Jeremy Charette]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=36186' target='_blank'>http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=36186</a><br /><br /></div><i>"'Tis the season where an inordinate amount of giving and receiving is going on, so it's a safe bet that many of you out there will be either gifting or getting a shiny new iPod video this year. And while the audio side of the equation is well established and largely dead simple by now, getting video you may already have lying about to play on the iPod isn't quite as mainstream just yet. Fortunately, it's not terribly difficult, so may we present a brief overview of what you need to know."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.w3sh.com/archives/rumeuripod-video-thumb.jpg" /><br /><br />If you have (or hope to get) a new iPod this holiday season, this is a great primer on how to convert and transfer videos to your newest toy.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Am I the only one that noticed that that is a Gen4 iPod in the picture above, not the new Gen5 iPod video?

[Jamespeter]

I've had some difficulty getting movies for my new video iPod. A great site that I have started using is called EZTakes Movie Downloads (http://www.eztakes.com). They provide movies that you can burn to DVD and a person on the support email wrote me that they are going to start selling Podcasts soon. All of their trailers, however, are available as movie podcasts (http://artio.eztakes.com/store/hiw/movie-podcasts.jsp) now.

[Jeremy Charette]

Am I the only one that noticed that that is a Gen4 iPod in the picture above, not the new Gen5 iPod video?

Yeah, I used a photo of the prototype Gen4 playing back a Star Wars DVD. I'll try to find a Gen5 photo to use instead.

[ChunkyMonkey]

I use PQDVD. Not free but fast and easy to use. I don't have the time to mess around with the free stuff like I used to.

http://www.pqdvd.com/dvd-to-ipod-video-converter.html

[kiwi]

hi,

I went to the itunes web the other day and was watching movie trailers.. I really like the looks of FIRST DESCENT. Anyway, I wanted to DL that onto my ipod Video and I was surprised to see it was only in .MOV format. I got errors when I tried to copy it to my ipod.

I ended up opening up a copy of QuickTime 7.0.3 and using EXPORT to Ipod to get the file in the correct format. It took some time. Maybe about 15mins for a 30sec 12meg file. hmm.. not too pleased.. how long would a real film take to convert?

I think converting to Ipod video is only good for small clips or if you have a lot of time!

[Macguy59]

hi,

I went to the itunes web the other day and was watching movie trailers.. I really like the looks of FIRST DESCENT. Anyway, I wanted to DL that onto my ipod Video and I was surprised to see it was only in .MOV format. I got errors when I tried to copy it to my ipod.

I ended up opening up a copy of QuickTime 7.0.3 and using EXPORT to Ipod to get the file in the correct format. It took some time. Maybe about 15mins for a 30sec 12meg file. hmm.. not too pleased.. how long would a real film take to convert?

I think converting to Ipod video is only good for small clips or if you have a lot of time!

Hmmm I converted the King Kong trailer (large-2:30-32mb) in 12 minutes on my G4 iMac using QT7 Pro. Still not real quick. At that rate it would take around an hour and a half to convert a 30 minute TV show or a little over 5 hours for an average length movie. I really don't do video conversions so I have nothing to compare. Anyone?