Using these instructions, you can also create videos for use in Apple’s new iPods with video playback capability. You can also use these instructions to create video podcasts for posting in Apple’s iTunes Podcast Directory for millions to view and download to their iPods.
1. Make sure you have updated your QuickTime software to version 7.0.3 or later. Mac OS X users use Software Update.
2. In order to record your video, you need to connect a FireWire camera or a source such as the output of your cable box, etc. to your Mac (for sources without FireWire outputs, use a DV converter, for example Formac’s StudioDV or any number of similar devices – basically, the RCA or S-Video outputs from your media device plug into the DV convertor, the content gets converted in real time, and a FireWire cable connects to your Mac). The iSight and most DV cameras will work directly via FireWire. Once your camera or other source is connected, make sure iChat AV and AOL Instant Messenger are not running.
3. Open QuickTime 7 Pro. If you don’t have it, get QuickTime 7 Pro today.
4. Choose “Preferences” from the QuickTime Player menu, then click on the Recording icon at the top of the window. First, select the video device and microphone you will use to record your video podcast. Next, for the best video quality of your final video podcast, set the Quality to “Device Native” and choose the location where you would like your podcast to be saved.
5. Choose “New Movie Recording” from the File menu.
6. Click the red Capture button and begin recording. Click the black Stop button when you’re done recording.
7. To convert your podcast recording to a format that iPod understands, choose “Export…” from the File menu. Choose “Movie to iPod (320×240)” from the export drop down list and click the Save button. The Export progress bar shows you how much of the export process is completed. The longer your recording, the longer the export will take. Once the export is complete, QuickTime Pro will place on your Desktop a new version of your podcast recording that will play on the iPod.
Add your finished movie to your iTunes Library for transfer to your video-capable iPod. Apple provides additional instructions for publishing your finished video as a podcast, if that’s what your content is intended to be, here.
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That’s so badass… Go Apple!
Just think how fun it would be to be able to create little video messages, grocery list (dont forget the toilet paper!) I love you daddy have a good trip, type video snippets with a isight, then save them with QT and pop them on dads ipod! I think the real potential of this new class of equipment is huge.
Has anyone written an Automator workflow to automatically convert videos to iPod?
MW: economic
I am working on a workflow myself. The problem is Automator doesn’t have Export options avalible for Quicktime, so in order to make a workflow someone has to make additional Automator plug-ins for Quicktime.
I am trying to create a work around, but if anyone knows how to create plug-ins for Automator, could you point us to some resources so we can figure it out, or make the Quicktime additional plug-ins needed?
MW: Months (you know the rest)
The perfect porn converter.
I just tried it and it works great.
150 hrs of porn …sick
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BTW, if you already have a video that QT7 can open – maybe something that you’ve recorded using EyeTV or, dare I say it, downloaded from some nefarious source, – there is a preset Export option in QT Player 7.0.3 called (imaginatively) [B]Movie To iPod[/B].
AlanD:
Well, that’ll be nice for the people sitting next to you on the train…
I agree- Automatior for a QT movie message would be great.
If anyone knows about them — point us in the right direction, thanks.
Additionally, there is a whole untapped potential waiting to be created or discovered!
Think of hte creative possibilities, Journaling, Diaries, Training Videos Cooking shows, How-To videos and more — available for Teachers and students.
Heck — students will be making them for students too!
(Those poor Henrico people — they must be almost as sad as the people and sobs heard in Redmond, these days!)
– DG
What I really have been anticipating the new iPod with Video capability for is that of DVD Video playback to a larger screen… notably, the portable DVD Screen that goes into my car for long trips with the kids.
As far as I can tell, iTunes 6 does not have a function for directly importing a DVD (like Finding Nemo) from the original DVD into the Videos Library.
After a little experimentation I have found the following process to work just fine:
1. Rip the DVD to my hard drive. I used Mac the Ripper for that.
2. Launch DVDxDV application and export the ripped DVD (Video_TS folder) as a DV/DVCPro – NTSC file (best quality and 16:9 aspect ratio since I have the widescreen movie)
3. Open the resulting file with QT7 pro.
4. Save as… a self contained movie (this takes a while)
5. Open iTunes 6, select the Videos “playlist” and Add to Library…
iTunes imports the movie and plays it back beautifully.
Since I don’t have a new iPod with Video function yet, I can only guess that iTunes 6 will output the new movie onto the iPod in the right format for playback on it.
It will be a while before I can afford the new iPod… maybe Christmas… so if someone else gets one that can try the final step out and report, that would be great.
MW=become
What will become of M$ now? … oh wait. I don’t really care do I?
The pieces are coming together. Everybody was so focused on feature films “sucking” on an iPod that they completely overlooked 1/2 TV shows (sans commercials) for a buck ninety-nine. This is gonna be big.
Think of it this way. How about parents, screw carrying around “photos” in your wallet, or even just photos of the kids on your iPod Photo, now you can show family, friends, strangers, videos of your kids in the play last week, their soccer game, whatever. So now you can carry, music, photos, and a video library. Oh and for the people that don’t see a market for this, think of all of the people that sit on a bus/plane/train to get to work each day. In Japan people are watching TV and video on their stupid little cell phone screens, space is cramped on the trains, and small devices are a big deal. Just like an iPod of the past, you can control your video playback with one hand. The 60 gig one is the best deal. Think of it this way, the battery life of the 30gig is 14 hours of music play back or 2 hours of video, and the 60 gig is 20 hours of music and 3 hours of video.. 6 hours of audio playback difference… so you watch a 2 hour movie and still have about 6 hours of music playback. 8 hours of total entertainment. I currently do this on my powerbook and iPod while in coach on flights between the midwest and the west coast. So… hmmm I can keep my laptop in the case as its tight to use any laptop in coach, and instead I can select out of say a couple of dozen movies easy, watch a two hour or less movie, listen to music for the last part of the 4 hour flight, and still have power left to listen to music while riding BART (bay area rapid transit) train from SFO to the east bay??? That is damn sweet. Black 60gig new iPod will soon be mine!
Now would be a good time to introduce everyone to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA):
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR:
Is 320 x240 the highest res the iPod can play?
Just wait to students start playing ipod porn in class…
iPod Power To The People!
i have a lot of questions about this new iPod.
mostly concerning what videos i will be able to play on it. i never use Quicktime to play videos. i use VLC or MPlayer, never Quicktime. so im wondering how many of the videos i have (and i have a lot, so much that i wouldnt be able to fit them all on the 60gig iPod).
so yeah, im wondering if i will be able to play these, or if i will have to convert all of them. i guess i will find out when i get one, its time to replace that brick that is my first gen 5 gig.
My iPod blows..heh heh.
It’s too bad that they have totally killed support for Firewire in the iPods. Now, with the iPods that can play video, they might have had enough power to encode video in real time as well. Imagine plugging in an iSight and having a Digital Camcorder. It may not be the best one out there, but if you are already carrying your iPod, carrying an iSight is not that much extra to be able to record lots of video and sound. I wonder if that would still be possible though….
“Is 320 x240 the highest res the iPod can play?”
If I remember correctly, VHS only records at ≈320 x 240. This should mean that purchased TV shows from iTunes should be at lease as good as a SP VHS recording on a fresh tape. I think I can live with that quality for this type of use.
I just want to know why I am getting POP UNDERS in Macdailynews now. WTF?
Here we are, surfing with Safari, with POP UPS blocked, and Macdailynews has found a way to circumvent the blocker to bait us with a “Free iPod” BS site via a POP UNDER!!!?????
I thought Macdailynews was on the Mac users’s team.
Thanks!
I love it! I can now use my Formac digitizer to make movies to go. I guess I don’t really have a use for that really, since I can play those movies now on my Powerbook, but I think it’s great that the option is there.
exporting the starwars fanpic revelations to ipod so i can add it to my itunes video list. fun.
the best way to do this is using handbrake. Heres the site that guides you through it.
http://howto.diveintomark.org/ipod-dvd-ripping-guide/
iPodDN Magic Word
I converted my videos with QTpro7 and they play fine on my itunes, but the audio is not working can some body please help me find out how to do this correctly