[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

This post has been 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.