Converting to IPOD video?

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

Yiu need to convert your video to MP4 – or M4V, or (I think)any of the other Mpeg 4 flavors.

You can do this with Quicktime Pro by choosin File > Export > and for Export format choose “Movie to Ipod (320×240)”

I usually use Sorenson Squeeze which does as good a job, but much faster. There is an MP4 preset called iPod Lo, which looks virtually the stuff output by quicktime.

FInally, you can convert video, such as a DVD or other video file formats to iPod video very quickly, using a progream called PQ DVD but the quality isn’t as good, or the files are a lot larger becasue it doesn’t use a 2 pass render process which bothe QT and Squeeze use. PQ DVD costs about $35… I use it to put my DVD’s on my ipod.

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[Straight A]

Yes you can output iPod compatible movies from After Effects, but they always look terrible, I have never managed to get even a half decent result using the MPEG4 codec even when employing the H264 compresso.r

The best way (from a quality point of view) is to output a uncompressed file animation codec set at full quality (the file will be big but you can later throw this file away) and then use MPEG Streamclip to convert it to a iPod compatible movie.

MPEG Streamclip is very good (better than Quicktime Pro in my opinion) and is free for both Mac and PC ( get it from here >> https://www.squared5.com/ )

Open MPEG Streamclip, drag your After Effects render into the main window – then go…. FILE >> EXPORT TO MPEG-4 – now from the pull down menu at the top of the window that appears choose H.264 or MPEG-4 – don’t go above a data rate of 768kbps for H264 or 2500kbps for MPEG4.

Good luck.