We used Michael Verdi's excellent tutorial http://aliveinbaghdad.pbwiki.com/AIB%20episode%20format
for compressing mpeg4 files that will work on the iPod I know his method works, since I put files from alive in baghdad on my ipod with no problem. However, we followed the instructions exactly ... using the combined brains of Maureen and I, which is AT LEAST one brain total and we checked it twice and the file does the dreaded "won't work on iPod" thing and I have to convert it for the iPod to get it to work and that's no fun. There is one difference, and maybe this is it. In Michael's tutorial the file is an uncompressed DV file from final cut pro and in our case it is an uncompressed .avi file from Premier and we are using quicktime pro for the PC, and Michael is using quitime pro for the mac, but all the same settings exist on the PC version that he refers to in the tutorial in the mac version of quicktime. Oh yeah, the other thing is that we set the data rate to 800 rather than 550. For the record, this evil file is presently on blip: http://blip.tv/file/get/Inspiredhealing-Episode30TheDigestiveSystemHeartburnSteroidShotsForTenn947.mp4 Maybe someone can tell what is wrong with this file that it won't work on my iPod ... thanks ... Richard -- http://richardhhall.org http://richardshow.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
