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[x_los]

If anyone knows where I can download the stuff to make avi files mp4s compatible with video ipod play, NOW IS MY HOUR OF NEED. I tried dragging things to itunes and using the advanced menu to convert selection for ipod, but nooooo, itunes won't even recognize the avi format, like avi is its mom and avi just showed up to pick itunes up from junior high wearing a mumu while driving a Fiesta.

I don't want to pay for Quick Time Pro. I'm cheap and I resent to stupid of paying 30$ for a program to perform one unbelievably banal function. Does anyone know how to do this?

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[inyourheadwires.livejournal.com]

before I help be careful with this in the install. only install what you need and kick the program after you are done

This guide will show you the basic step how to convert video(MOV, AVI, MPG, TS, VOB, DV) to iPod mp4 format using free tools.

Tools required:
QuickTime Pro($30) or Quicktime Alternative(free)
MPEG StreamClip
(3ivx if your source is AVI DivX or XviD)

Guide:
First install Quicktime Pro or Quicktime Alternative
Download MPEG StreamClip (Windows version), extract the MPEG_StreamClip.exe from the zip archive and double click to run it.

Open the the video in MPEG StreamClip, File->Open Files (Hold in ctrl to select several files)
Select File->Export to MPEG-4
Click on the iPoD to select iPoD format profiles, 640x480 (4:3 Fullscreen), 640x360 (16:9 Widescreen), etc. Higher frame size means better quality but it also requires that you use a bit higher bitrate which means bigger output file size.
Set the Data Rate to change the output file size. Higher output file size means better quality. Try different settings and see how it looks like.
Last click Make MP4 to convert!

the link for the quicktime alternative

[inyourheadwires.livejournal.com]

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/QuickTime_Alternative

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Wait, so I've downloaded the Quick Time alt, but I have a mac OSX, not any form of windows. Is this going to work? Also what's 3ivx? Is it a version of MPEG Stream Clip or a different program? Where could I find this?

Thanks incredibly much!

[sovietkitsch.livejournal.com]

like avi is its mom and avi just showed up to pick itunes up from junior high wearing a mumu while driving a Fiesta.

hilarious.

I'm going to be of absolutely no help. And even worse, I have a question for you. How can I edit an avi video (and a quicktime one, because I have both) and rotate it? Like, I stupidly took the video with the camera sideways and now it plays sideways?

Take your time and if you don't know, that's cool. I'll just turn my head. :)

[floraldeoderant.livejournal.com]

if you're on windows, i think windows movie maker has a rotate function (but its pretty worthless for everything else).

dunno about macs/linux boxes, but i do know there's a lot of really great torrents with vegas 6 on them. but then again that would be wrong...

:D

[x-los.livejournal.com]

What's Vegas 6? If you say the home of six indivuidual Rat Packs, I will have to kill you. But is it a torrent that will convert files? bc I'm only familiar with 'torrent' in the sense of enabling filed to be read by, say, quicktime, not as enabling the full on format change necessary for the importation of a file onto a video ipod. But then again, I know less about computers than your mom knows about chastity.

Oh.

Yeah.

I said it.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I can barely turn my Mac ON, let alone get all crazy with video editing. Find a friend who isn't stupid. ;p

[gothic-hamlet.livejournal.com]

Do not get Quick Time Pro in my opinon... the conversion time on it is utterly stupid and ridiculous on a normal machine. Plus you are feeding Apple more monetary units.

INSTEAD get Videora converter! ^^ I've used it regularly for upwards of a year (an older version admittedly), and have had absolutely no problems converting cartoons, live action film, and even wide screen things for video Ipod.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Er, I have a Mac, and the free Videora appears to be All Windowsy. Am I nuts and not seeing a Mac version, or is there no such animal?

second verse is different than the first

[inyourheadwires.livejournal.com]

I forgot you had a mac. The gamer in me refuses to believe people own macs.

here is a free avi converter for mac. http://www.dvdvideoconverter.com/videotools/

* Convert video between almost any formats:
AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (inc. Sony PSP and Apple iPod), WMV, 3GP, 3G2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), SWF, DVD, VOB, VRO, MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, DAT, VCD, SVCD, MJPEG, ASF, ASX, Real Video (RM, RMVB), H.263, H.264, VRO, DVR-MS, MKV, OGM, FLV. The Video Converter is the best on the market today! Guide Here

that is the exact quote.

As before I don't advise keeping foreign software for any extended period of time.

Re: second verse is different than the first

[x-los.livejournal.com]

AUGH, it only converts the first 5 min of anything b/c it's a trial version. HATE. And the full version's more expensive than ACTUAL QTPro. Fuck everything, I'll just buy Quick Time. Thanks so much for everything, though!

But, er, other than it's uselessness why would it be a bad idea to leave it on my comp?

Re: second verse is different than the first

[inyourheadwires.livejournal.com]

Well free software oft times uses it's access to your computer to reach out to it's parent companies and download spyware and hide it within its own program files so it's harder to detect on virus scanners. Also sometimes it has things like that built into it as stands. Minor hacks (such as key readers ands so forth) are very common.