How to Make iPod Videos

iPod Videos are videos that folks can download onto video iPods. Two steps are involved: (1) making the video and putting it on Cary Academy web site, and (2)  Providing instructions to the visitor to your web page on how to download the video.

How to make the videos and put them on Cary Academy web site.

Start out by producing a video either by taping it live or creating a project in Premiere or some other video editing program. Once the video has been captured in Premiere, Export it as a Quick Time movie. On a computer that has iTunes 6.0.2 or later version, import the QT movie file into iTunes' Library. On the iTunes Advanced menu button, convert the video for use on an iPod. Move the resulting m4v file to this folder on Cary Academy web:
   I:\Curriculum\ipodcasts
And finally, put a link on your web page using the following syntax:
   https://project1.caryacademy.org/ipodcasts/filename.m4v

How to tell visitors how to download the videos and put them on their iPods.

On your page with the above link you should probably put some instructions to the users for how to download the files and put them on their iPods. They will right-click on the link, "Save Target As...", save the video to a computer that has iTunes on it, import the video into iTunes' library, and finally plug in their iPod to the computer.

Below is an example of what a web page might look like.

To download the videos below, right click the link and select "Save Target As..."
Right click on one of the links below and "SaveTargetAs".
Once downloaded, import into iTunes, plug in your iPod...
Note: Make sure the file extension for the downloaded file is m4v.
Your browser may try to change the extension to mov.

This is experimental technology. As such it may or may not prove to be useful. Please experiment with this technology and when you find useful examples of it's use, tell your comrades about them. Using even more advanced technology, Joselyn Todd will soon have on her web site ways to use RSS technology to get podcasts to iPods. Her techniques are a little more difficult for the author but much easier for the users.