| The iPod is touted to be the single greatest invention | | | | play on your iPod. |
| ever to come out as far as multimedia handling is | | | | Conversion |
| concerned. The day the first iPod came out, it was | | | | It's hard to find movies in the mpeg4 format because |
| clear that Apple would be ahead of the mp3 market | | | | most are already on DVD and if there are any |
| by light years. They took it a step further with the iPod | | | | downloadable ones online (your legal choices are very |
| video. And this is where it started to become a little | | | | few), they are in other formats. There is, however, a |
| more complicated. | | | | solution to all of this. You will need to use a movie |
| For years, the iPod was known as an mp3 device and | | | | converter. There are many different converters that |
| people marveled at the ease of use they experienced | | | | you can buy online and some of them are free. |
| with one of these babies in their hands. These days, to | | | | Basically, these programs will convert WMV's and |
| buy an iPod means that you have to know how to | | | | AVI's into the iPod format mpeg 4. Some examples of |
| use it. After all, the iPod of today handles more than | | | | such programs are IMTOO iPod Movie converter, or |
| just music. And that's where the problem lies-some | | | | even Lonely Cats SmartMovie Converter which is |
| people are at a loss when it comes to syncing videos | | | | more or less used to convert movies into a mobile |
| into their iPod videos. | | | | format such as the iPod. They are simple enough |
| The First Step | | | | programs to use and most can be found with a |
| Of course, not all iPods can play videos so it goes | | | | search on a site like Google or Yahoo Search. There |
| without saying that you first need the right hardware | | | | are also other programs that will allow you to convert |
| to be able to view videos. Only iPod video models can | | | | some of your favorite DVDs into the mpeg4 format |
| actually play videos. What you want to do now is | | | | directly. |
| figure out what videos you want to place into your | | | | Transfer |
| iPod and also check how much space you have left in | | | | Once you have figured out how to convert and have |
| your iPod. Videos are quite large and in the iPod | | | | some files ready to transfer to your iPod, all you have |
| format, a full movie can go over 400MB. That's a lot of | | | | to do is open iTunes and plug in your iPod video. Once |
| space and the more movies you want to store in it, | | | | it syncs, you can then click and drag the files into your |
| the more space you will need. | | | | iPod much like you would with music. It's that simple |
| Know The Format | | | | and only a company like Apple could have made it that |
| Videos come in all sorts of sizes and formats. This is | | | | way. |
| essential because some people think that if a video | | | | The difficulty in downloading movies into your iPod is |
| can be played on the computer, it can play on the iPod. | | | | not in the way the files are transferred. It is actually |
| This is far from the truth. iPods usually take in a format | | | | finding the right format for your iPod and converting |
| known as mpeg4; the file extension for this is mp4 and | | | | other format videos into that format. With a little |
| you must have stumbled upon that somewhere. This is | | | | research, you can become an iPod syncing expert in |
| the only format that the iPod plays so if you see a | | | | the shortest time possible. |
| WMV, or an AVI, touch luck. These formats will not | | | | |