Convert Video files to MP4 for iPod

This guide shows the process of converting video files to MP4 video to store and view on a video iPod. The guide is pretty simple and should be fine for new users. In this guide we will be using commercial, called Wondershare Video to iPod Converter. Besides the use you will make of iTunes after the process is complete, this should be the only software that you need for this process. Before we start there are a few things that you need to remember first.

What are the video capabilities of Wondershare Video to iPod Converter?

Wondershare Video to iPod Converter supports many popular video formats. You can convert AVI-WMV-ASF-MOV-RM-RMVB-MPG-MPEG-ASF-DAT to iPod compliant format (MP4). You can download free from here You can know more about it by referring here

Introduction & Requirements

Wondershare Video to iPod Converter - This is commercial software and will display a mark on your encoded video until you register it. Make sure you check back to the site for new versions regularly.

This guide buttumes that you know how to use iTunes to add video to your iTunes and drag the video to your iPod) so that isn't covered. You may however need additional software to open your video files. As a general rule, if you can play your source files, you have the codecs required.

Check the files with Video Inspector if you can't open a file, you can download from here You should be able to track down a codec then. I recommend that you disable any screen savers if you are encoding long videos. Also any scheduled tasks such as virus scanner, spyware scanner, updaters etc. should be disabled if you think they will clash with the process.

Software Interface

Wondershare Video to iPod Converter has a simple and intuitive Interface. You could say there are two main sections. At the top of the right part, that we'll call a Tool Bar, you can import video files, register, open the option menu here. Below is the Track list, after files load, you can see the video information here. Next is Profiles, you can rename output files, select profiles, change output folder here. Of course, the Start button is beside. The left part is a Preview Window which looks like iPod. You can preview the video and snatch picture here. Wondershare Video to iPod Converter inherits the simple style of Wondershare software. You can manage the conversion with just a few clicks.

Adding files

Clicking the button on the upper left corner or double clicks in the blank area to import video files. After video files loading, you can get video information in the Track list. Additional, video would be auto played in the preview window; you can use it just as a video player. You can import multi video files at one time or import one by one, Wondershare Video to iPod Convertersupport batch conversion. More over, you can delete any video files you don't want to convert by pushing delete button.

Setting a Profile and Destination path

There are two kinds of profile for you to select: iPod MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4) & iPod H.264 Movie (*.mp4). What's the difference between these two profiles? iPod MPEG-4 Movie Provides faster conversion speed while iPod H.264 Movie (*.mp4) has higher compress ration with smaller conversion files. To change a destination folder click the little icon beside. The default destination folder is C:-Program Files-Wondershare-Video to iPod Converter-Output

Option setting

Here you can change the settings for the output video and audio.

As to video setting, there are four parts: 1) Resolution (320 * 180, 320 * 240, 480 * 270, 480 * 320) 2) Frame rate (23.975(NTSC Movie) , 24.0 p-s, 25.0(PAL Movie) p-s , 29.97(TV Source) p-s, 30.0 p-s 3) Format(xVID and H.264) 4) Bit rate(512 kbps , 576 kbps , 640 kbps , 768 kbps , 900 kbps , 1500 kbps , 2000 kbps , 2500 kbps) As to audio setting, there are also four parts: 1) Bit rate (56 kbps, 64kbps, 96kbps,128kbps) 2) Channels (1 Channels, Mono, 2 Channels, Stereo) 3) Frequency (11025 Hz , 22050 Hz , 44100 Hz and 48000 Hz, or just keep original) 4) Volume (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 175%, 200%), after testing, this setting play not well.

Special function

Wondershare Video to iPod Converter support partial conversion. After loading video files. Double click at the video breastle in the Track List. A window will be pop up, you can drag the scroll bar to set the conversion start time and end time freely, more over you can type in time manually. Then only the desire parts will be converted.

Wondershare Video to iPod Converter enable you snatch any picture from the video. It can save as two formats----Bmp & JPEG While playing video in the preview window. Clicking the camera button below the preview window, pictures will be snatched and save in C:-Program Files-Wondershare-Video to iPod Converter-Output

Start the Process

Finishing all the option setting, you can click START button to start conversion. More over, you can abort the conversion by click Cancel button. The time the conversion will take depends on the length and number of files you selected.

Success

When the process completes, you might want to play back the MP4 in something like iTunes or QuickTime to check out sound sync and other things that could cause issues. If it's fine, then go ahead and transfer the video to your iPod using iTunes

Finally

Hopefully this guide has helped you enough so that you can convert all your video files to your iPod without any problems. If you have any problems or any feedback on this guide, send me a Private Message .I hope this guide helped you, hope you stick around