How to Convert and Put movies on you iPod?

There are 2 steps:
1.Convert movies to iPod videos;
2.Transfer video to iPod;

1.Convert movies to iPod

As being one of the best portable video and audio players in the world, Video iPod liberates you from chains of watching movies on a portable DVD player with lots of DVD discs bringing out. There are various MPEG-4 video and audio formats and others supported playing in the video iPod and new Video iPod(30G and 80G), for instance, it supports playing video formats such as H.264 video, M4V, MP4, MOV with AAC-LC audio and stereo audio, and audio formats including AAC, MP3, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF. The next question is how to convert movies and music to Video iPod?
ImTOO iPod Movie Converter is a good choice. It can convert movie and music files in different formats among MPEG , WMV , AVI , RM , 3GP, WMA, OGG, WAV etc. to iPod video formats (MP4,MOV) and audio formats (M4A, MP3). As iPod converter software, all conversion processes are very easy and fast with high quality. It offers two working modes: the Advanced Mode with variable settings for you to customize, while the Wizard Mode showing you the whole conversion. Free Downloads ImTOO iPod Movie Converter to experience music and entertainment, and follow the instruction below to guide you how to convert movies to iPod video and put the movie and music on your Video iPod in the Advanced Mode step-by-step:
1. How to convert movies to iPod video?	3. Tips
2. How to put and transfer movies to your Video iPod?	4. Glossary

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How to convert movies to iPod video:

1. Download ImTOO Movie Converter and install.

2. Run ImTOO iPod Movie Converter first , load the audio or video files by clicking "Add" button in the main interface or choose "Add" in the File menu.

3. Click to highlight the loaded file and select output format from "Encode" combo-box. For example, to get .M4A file, you should select "M4A MPEG-4 Audio (*.m4a)"; wanna convert movies to Video iPod(60G), you are supposed to select "iPod(60G) MPEG-4 Video - Excellent Quality (*.mp4)".

4. Click "Browse…" button to select a folder or enter the direct file path in the "Destination" form to decide where to save the output file. The default path is "C:\temp" if nothing typed.

5. Finally, press "Encode" button to start converting.

6. It will display "Completed" under the "Status" column if the conversion has been brought to success.

How to put and transfer movies to your Video iPod:

1. Please click "Open" button after the conversion's done.

2. Find the converted file in the destination folder and put it to your iTunes.

3. Drag the file into the iPod logo of the iTunes and then release the mouse when there is a "†" sign around the cursor. The file would be transferred to Video iPod automatically.

Tips:

You can browse the file information on the pop-up box by clicking "View"⇒"Show File Information" buttons in the main menu. While the loaded file's highlighting, you may adjust parameters of the output file, e.g. "Start Time", "Video Size", "Video/Audio Bitrate", etc. in the right column. If you want to convert a RM/RA file to the formats supported by Video iPod, you are supposed to add it on the way by clicking "Add Directshow files…" in the "File" menu. The way provides better quality of the RM/RA file decoding.

Glossary:

• MP4 Format:
  • iPod (30G) MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)
    The size and quality of out put file is normal
  • iPod (60G) MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)
    The size and quality of out put file is normal
  • iPod (30G) MPEG-4 Video - Minimal Size (*.mp4)
    The size of out put file is minimal, which means it is possible that you can store more movies or songs on your Video iPod. But, the quality of the video or audio file is poor.
  • iPod (60G) MPEG-4 Video - Minimal Size (*.mp4)
    The size of out put file is minimal, which means it is possible that you can store more movies or songs on your Video iPod. But, the quality of the video or audio file is poor.
  • iPod (30G) MPEG-4 Video - Excellent Quality (*.mp4)
    You would get a fist-class output file if you select "Excellent Quality" , the size of the file would be quite large in this way
  • iPod (60G) MPEG-4 Video - Excellent Quality (*.mp4)
    You would get a fist-class output file if you select "Excellent Quality" , the size of the file would be quite large in this way
• MOV Format:
  • MOV - QuickTime (*.mov)
    .mov is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files
• MP3 Format:
  • MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)
    MP3 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer III . It is a separate format, but a part of MPEG-1 video encoding format, developed by MPEG group in early 1990's
• M4A Format:
  • M4A - MPEG-4 Audio (*.m4a)
    An MPEG-4 container format for audio files (compare to .mp4).The audio data within the container file can be encoded with virtually any audio-encoding mechanism, but most commonly the .m4a refers to an audio file stored within MPEG-4 container and encoded with AAC audio format.

2.Transfer Videos to iPod.

Solution1, Sync your ipod and library to transfer the converted output mp4 file to ipod

Solution2, Manually transfer the converted output mp4 file to ipod

Solution 1,

Sync your ipod and library to transfer the converted output mp4 file to ipod   Tools required: itunes7 or later 1.Connect your ipod to pc. Launch itunes7 , you will see the right UI.   2. Be sure the "Manually manage music and videos" are not checked.

3.Click the File on menu, choose Add File to Library... you will see the right UI.   4. Choose the converted output file from the output folder

5.You can find the video at Movies,  right click the file, in Get info to set the kind of your video, see the right UI.   Then you can find the video at related playlist

6.Choose Sync "ipod" at the menu, you will see the right UI.   You can see the progress of updating Files on ipod

7.When the updating completed, you will find the video on you ipod

Done.

Solution 2,

Manually transfer the converted output mp4 file to ipod   Tools required: itunes7 or later 1.Connect your ipod to pc. Launch itunes7 , you will see the right UI.   2. Be sure the "Manually manage music and videos" are  checked.

3.Right click your ipod on left list, click New playlist,create a new list to place the video you converted.

4.Click the new playlist you created. Open the output folder, drag the output mp4 file into the window like right picture.

5.You can see the updating process like right pic.

6.When the updating completed, you will find the video in the new playlist on you ipod.  right click the file, in Get info to set the kind of your video. Then you can find the video at related playlist

Done.