Dear Vlogging Group,
I have a question regarding exporting formats. At the moment I have
both PC and Mac. On my Powerbook, the IMovie has a setting direct for
the Video Ipod. I've been exporting in that format as well as Windows
Media. Is there a general rule of thumb for exporting in other
hi cheryl,
i have been using blip.tv for some time now and am very happy it
i notice that some people post their videos there in two formats:
quicktime and windows media
for myself, i only upload quicktime videos as .mov files, generally
using the settings from freevlog.org
however, more and
iPod will play mov and mp4. It depends more on the resolution and bitrate.
m4v is not actually anything other than an mp4 with h.264 codec, aac
audio, and specific resolution and bitrate settings optimized for
iPod. So really, m4v is a made up file extension. It should actually
be mp4, as that's
Josh, from a risk management perspective is there any reason to think
Apple may in future harden their m4v scheme at some point making it a
requirement to have mv4 extension to sync to ipod, making a nightmare
scenario for peeps with renamed m4v mp4 assets on servers and links
on their feeds?
One thing the M4V extension does do is that iTunes maps that file
extension to itself. So if you want the file to be double-clicked and
opened in QuickTime, you would prefer the mp4 extension.
My feeling is that Apple invented it specifically to be an iTunes
video file (as opposed to a QuickTime
