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[brockisit1]

Hello  Everyone:

I  just  purchased  the  Roxio Easy Media  Creator.  I  asked  the  Geek  Squad  at  bestbuy:  I  need  at  program  to  convert  Avi  to  MPEG,  and  the  girl  told  me  to  put  the  files  into  the  folder  music,  But  I  dont  know  where  the  folder  is  or  what  she  is  talking  about.

I  am  trying  to  convert  the  files  I  already  have,  which  are  windows  media  files,  and  Avi  files  into  a  format  that  will  work  with  my  Video  I-pod  which  is  a  60 gig,  I  am  a  retard  when  it  comes  to  electronics  of  this  world,  please  if  anyone  knows  how  to  do  it  please  provide  the  steps  so  I  can  do  it.

Thank  you  for  your  time  in  this  matter.

Brock C Rice.............

[ggrussell]

Apple has always used propietary hardware and software.  You must havea iTunes 6.01

Audio formats:
AAC (up to 320 kbit/s), MP3 (up to 320 kbit/s), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR), WAV, Audible.

Video formats:
    * H.264 video
      File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
      Video: Up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3
      Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio
    * MPEG-4 video
      File formats: .m4v, .mp4 and .mov
      Video: Up to 2.5 Mbps, 480 x 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile
      Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 KHz, stereo audio

Videowave supports importing MPEG4, but I didn't see a way to export it.  See if iTunes will convert the files. The only other choice thta I know is Apple's Quicktime Pro which you have to purchase.

[patatrox]

brockisit1, on Jan 4 2006, 01:21 PM, said:

Hello  Everyone:

I  just  purchased  the  Roxio Easy Media  Creator.  I  asked  the  Geek  Squad  at  bestbuy:  I  need  at  program  to  convert  Avi  to  MPEG,  and  the  girl  told  me  to  put  the  files  into  the  folder  music,  But  I  dont  know  where  the  folder  is  or  what  she  is  talking  about.

Creator unfortunately isn't the right application to convert video files in to a format playable by iPod (yet).

[ggrussell]

Videora

Free iPod video converter... Thanks to my geeky nephew!!

[miranda_network]

patatrox, on Jan 4 2006, 10:26 PM, said:

Creator unfortunately isn't the right application to convert video files in to a format playable by iPod (yet).

Hopefully there will be an update so you can create .MPEG-4 and H.264 movies.


the free one I use has several bugs in it, but the quality is pretty good.  I use roxio to edit and encode the movies with a codec that the software can "read".

[kitykity]

I really don't understand what happened.  Roxio 7 would create mp4 files fine--in fact, I use it every single day to create video posts (via my video blog) for people to put on their ipods:
http://vlog.kitykity.com
all of those movies are created with Roxio 7, thanks to 3ivx ( www.3ivx.com ).

But the new Roxio 8 will not create mp4s?  What is the problem?  Can someone at Roxio PLEASE contact the 3ivx developers?  (you can email Jan Devos, jan.devos at 3ivx.com )  I won't use Roxio 8 at all until it allows you to create mp4s again, like Roxio 7 did.

Thank you so much, if you are willing to listen... otherwise, you are going to be turning away thousands of ipod users who don't want to create a video and then have to convert it with a separate application...

Susan

Edited by kity1kity, 10 January 2006 - 07:34 AM.

[sikter]

One important thing people tend to missunderstand about mp4 is the fact that file format itself doesn't matter - what's inside the file matters. And inside mp4 file you can put almost anything - pictures, video, text, audio (including mp3 audio!!!). The question is not "does Roxio support mp4", but rather what kind of mp4 it supports or will support.

Supporting mp4 without new H264 video codec (also called AVC or MPEG4-part 10) really makes no sense. I think as soon as it supports H264, Roxio will come back to mp4.

Cheers!

kity1kity, on Jan 10 2006, 07:31 AM, said:

I really don't understand what happened.  Roxio 7 would create mp4 files fine--in fact, I use it every single day to create video posts (via my video blog) for people to put on their ipods:
http://vlog.kitykity.com
all of those movies are created with Roxio 7, thanks to 3ivx ( www.3ivx.com ).

But the new Roxio 8 will not create mp4s?  What is the problem?  Can someone at Roxio PLEASE contact the 3ivx developers?  (you can email Jan Devos, jan.devos at 3ivx.com )  I won't use Roxio 8 at all until it allows you to create mp4s again, like Roxio 7 did.

Thank you so much, if you are willing to listen... otherwise, you are going to be turning away thousands of ipod users who don't want to create a video and then have to convert it with a separate application...

Susan

[ggrussell]

There also could be a licensing issue which could add more to the price of the product.   EMC8 already supports Microsoft's MPEG4 codecs which are free.  I know that some of the other video editors charge an extra fee for MPEG4 support.  Even Apple's QuickTime you have to purchase the PRO version to create files. As they say, nothing is free anymore.

[jeanrosenfeld]

Don't know whether this would be helpful with the conversion you want, but you could look at mediacoder (free)

http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

[ggrussell]

Thanks Jean.  Looks like a neat little tool to keep around.