Adding Chapters to iTunes Video?

What's the easiest way to add chapter marks (or some sort of breaks) into long, unedited videos in iTunes?

Try iMovie or iDVD.
MJ

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All of a sudden (video) files added to my iTunes library after a certain date aren't playable on other devices.

hello!
All of a sudden I have a weird issue with playing video-files added to my iTunes library after a specific date.
This is the situation so far:
I encode the video for iTunes with the same settings for the last 3 years. I know these vids play on all my devices. AppleTV & iPad. All of a sudden videos added to my library after the 8th of september aren't playable on my AppleTV and iPad. I can play them directly in iTunes and by accessing them directly via the finder and quicktime.
The following errors occur:
When I pull the video from iTunes on my AppleTV.. the video simply doesn't play.
When I pull the video from iTunes on my iPad I get a message that the file can't be found.
When I push the video from iTunes to the AppleTV using airplay I get a message that there has occured an error while connecting to the AirPlay-device "Apple TV". The necesary file could not be found. In addition when the AppleTV is switched off it doesn't turn on doing this, suggesting that there is something missing on my mac itself.
All the above errors aren't popping up when I choose a video that has been put in my library before the 9th of september. Then everything works as expected.
This is what I tried:
Turning off and on home sharing on all devices including the mac.
Logging in wiht a different apple ID though using the same ID as before.
I created a new iTunes library and populated with a video that was added after the 8th of september and one that was added before the 9th of september. Surprisingly the older one played and not the newer one.. while they both used the same encoding settings. The new library was locally on my mac as my original library is on a NAS.
I encode my videos with Quicktime 7 Pro using the following settings:
H.264 (current frame rate, key-frames:automatic, re-order frames, automatic bitsize)
Medium Quality
Multi-pass
current resolution (which is always 1280 X 720)
AAC sound
44.100 kHz
128kbps
I'm using the Mountain lion 10.8.2 and iTunes 10.7 Mountain lion got updated a few days after 19th of september and iTunes i think as well. Both versions were released after this issue seemed to pop up.
I also have two video-files encoded on the same day with the same settings that dragged into the iTunes library on the 9th of september. One works.. the other doesn't.
So I wonder if there is somebody out there that can tell me what might have happened here and how I could fix this issue.
Thank you in advance.

Hi Seraphiel07.
I have a very similar issue. Hardware involved:
Apple MacMini (Mid 2011) - OSX 10.8.2. iTunes 10.7. Home Sharing enabled.
Apple TV (3rd Generation). Home Sharing (access) enabled.
Apple MacBook Pro (15" Mid-2009). OSX 10.8.2. iTunes 10.7. Home Sharing enabled.
Apple iPad 2 (Wifi only). iOS 6
Apple iPhone 4S. iOS 6
All connected through:
Apple Time Capsule 8.0211n (4th Gen)
I have an iTunes library on the MacBook Pro, shared over "Home Sharing" and another (duplicate content, different library name) iTunes library on my MacMini, which is also accessed through the Apple TV.
All software is current (as of Sep 26th).
All movies are iTunes purchases. 80 in total.
All files are purchased (and home shared) under one account.
My last two iTunes purchases both HD movies on 09/17/2012 and 09/05/2012 refuse to appear on any device accessing either of the two Libraries over Home Sharing. It should be noted that every other movie (the other 78) all show up and play correctly. I therefore know it is not an issue with connectivity, otherwise I would see zero movies available.
I have:
1. Removed all content from each Library and re-added
2. Upgraded the OS on the MacMini 10.8.2
3. Tested viewing the two missing movies on other Apple devices and no luck.
4. Turn home sharing on and off within iTunes and also on each device.
It would appear to me that the issue is with the files themselves, rather than the devices as different devices and different versions have been tested.
All comments welcome.

Videos added to my itunes some there and some arent vidoes not from itunes

hi i have some video file that says they are compatable with itunes video player but when i added them some were added on and there was some that should be on there as well yet they arent. these video werent from itunes since the itunes store doesnt sell them yet, i would like to add the ones the wasnt added but not sure how to do that or why they werent added when the others were. im not sure if i made much sense ill try to clear my question up if i wasnt clear

Do you have any of them unchecked in iTunes? If so, have a look at iTunes>Preferences>iPod and see if the box "only update checked songs" is marked.

Need help with adding chapters

I like iMovie '08 for the quickness of scanning the video, however I'm hoping someone can explain the steps of exporting and adding chapters in garage band and then exporting that to iDVD. My ultimate goal is to create a dvd from my video footage and the dvd have scene selections. Also, will this cause quality loss (exporting/importing back and forth between programs). If there's another way to add chapters instead of in garage band, please let me know. Thanks.

1) First, create your movie in iMovie. Then Share it using Share to iTunes, Share to Media Browser, etc.
2) Now, Open GarageBand.
3) Select "Create a new music project" (not "create a new podcast episode")
4) Give your project a name and click "Create" (The time signature and all that stuff does not matter)
5) You might see a grand piano keyboard. Click the red dot at the upper left corner of the keyboard to get rid if it.
6) Now, at the bottom right corner of GarageBand, you should see a button for the Media Browser. Click it, and you should be able to find your movie.
7) Drag your movie from the Media Browser to the main garageband area where it says "Drag Apple Loops here". It will create a video track with thumbnails for skimming and an audio track.
8) At this point, you will also see a "Grand Piano Track" which is a default. You can delete it by selecting the Grand Piano track, and then clicking in the menus TRACK/DELETE.
Now, the only tracks remaining are your movie.
9) Select your Movie Track and you will see the pane below where you enter Chapter names. In GarageBand terms these are Markers.
10) Move the GarageBand playhead to the point in your movie where you want the first chapter. Click Add Marker. Your Chapter will have a default name of "Chapter 1" but you can click on it and change it. Make sure there is a checkmark by "marks a chapter" (not "marks a URL")
11) Repeat step 10 until you have all your chapters.
12) Now, click SHARE/SEND MOVIE TO iDVD, or SHARE/SEND MOVIE TO iTUNES, etc. depending on whether you are creating this for a DVD or for an iPod.
You are done.

Problems playing itunes videos continuosly in Full Screen

Hi guys,
I have a small problem. I started to buy Videos in itunes music store and building my own MTV. So far, so good. My problem started when I started to buy some DVDs, converting the videos to MP4 format and then adding them to my itunes library. I have kept the same resolution than the original itunes videos, but I have changed the frame rate to have a little bit more quality.
When I select a video, iTunes plays it in full screen (as it is selected in the preferences). If the second video is another original iTunes, it continues in full screen. But as soon as one of the non iTunes videos starts, it goes to the main window and plays the video in the small section at the bottom-left of the screen (selected as "Now Playing"). Then, the next video goes back to full screen, even if it is a non-itunes one. It is very anoying since I have to put it back in Full screen manually.
Does anybody have the same issue? I am using the last release and patch level of Mac OS and itunes. I think that it might be related with the way that I imported the videos (using Handbrake 7). May be I need to use exactly the same format that Apple uses in itunes. Does anybody knows the exact video format that Apples uses? Do you think that it may be related with issue?
One last point. I have experienced the same problem in two different Macs. One Power PC and one Intel... I have already given up...
Thanks in advance for your help,
G. Acilu

I HAVE THE SOLUTION!
I too was experiencing non-full screen playback between music videos / movies. I discovered that this only happened if I had en EQUALIZER setting for the music video / movie. Once I had NONE as the EQUALIZER setting my music videos / movies all played back full screen from one to the next.
Change your settings in the equalizer column as suggested and see if this works for you. It solved my problem, although I do not have my desired equalizer settings in operation!

How to Specify Metadata When Adding Content Using iTunes U Web Service?

I've been developing Java applications using iTunes U Web service and uploaded content to iTunes U site using iTunes U Web service without problem. Now I want to add metadata fields (name, artist name, album name, etc.) for the tracks I uploaded. It seems to me that "AddTrack" will do. So I tested it but it neither adds a track under the specified group nor updates metadata fields for an existing track. It turned out "MergeTrack" actually updates metadata fields for an existing track. So is there any way to specify metadata at the time of adding content using iTunes U Web service? And what exactly does AddTrack do? This is all about contents hosted by iTunes U site and no RSS is involved.
I'm referring to the "AddTrack" method in iTunes U Web service:
http://deimos.apple.com/rsrc/doc/iTunesUAdministrationGuide/iTunesUWebServices/c hapter18_section_21.html#//appleref/doc/uid/AdminGuide-CH13-SW26

Thanks for all the replies. My question is whether there is any way to specify metadata WHEN adding content using iTunes U Web service. Specifying metadata AFTER adding content can be achieved by MergeTrack (weird naming) and it does work.
As for setting track level meta-data in the media file and then upload it, there're several reasons against that, among which are:
1. Some track metadata are context-dependent. A video about buildings on Michigan Ave in Chicago can be track #2 in a history course and described as "historic view of the Magnificent Mile", but the same media can also be track #5 in a landscape design course and described as something like "contemporary architecture". Setting these metadata in the media file itself is not the preferred way to do it since it implies maintaining a version of the same media for any course/group it gets uploaded to.
2. Setting metadata in a location separate from the media file helps track the metadata change and search for media without digging into the media itself.
3. If MergeTrack "updates" metadata, there got to be some other method that "creates" metadata - that's what a well-designed API should look like. And setting metadata in the media file is not an equivalent to a "create metadata" method call. In rickwolf's term, that implicit AddTrack should actually be made explicit so the party uploading content can explicitly specify metadata instead of having iTunes U extract metadata from the media.
It is still not clear what "AddTrack" does exactly, maybe rickwolf is right - it's only relevant to tracks created through RSS.
So it seems to me there is no other way to specify metadata WHEN adding content using iTunes U Web service than setting metadata in the media file. To me it is more like a design flaw.
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Can I Keep My iTunes Videos On External Hardrive To keep Space Free ?

HELLO ALL........i currently use a g4 powerbook running osx and ilife 06. i have converted several videos for use on my iPod and as a result my harddrive is getting a little crowded. i have a external hardrive which i use only for storage and very rarely connect to the powerbook. i use my mac regularly for listening to music but never watch the videos on it (only through my ipod)
i would like to know if there is a way i could make the"video" library from itunes be located on my external drive but keep all my music in its normal location so i can use regularly without having to connect the external drive.....
hope you can help me, thanks in advance

sorry to inform u that it wont be possible..music and
videos are stored in the same location......but try
this out. when u got preferences go to advanced
option..over there u will find an option that would
say "copy files to itunes music folder while adding
to library".. uncheck that option......but before u
do that transfer all the videos from itunes lib to ur
hardisk...then delete those videos from the library.
then uncheck that option and add those videos to
itunes...this time videos will not get added to the
itunes library but it will be there in the hardisk...
but remember later what ever u add to the itunes from
an external source will not be added in the lib
either..
i hope u understand what ever i said
assembled amd Windows XP Pro
hi there, thanks for this tip. yes- i understand this information and it has worked and done what i intended to do. thanks for your time in helping me. thanks

Uploading non-iTunes videos to iPod

Hey all
ok so i've been uploading no itunes videos to my ipod no prob but when i go to GET INFO> OPTIONS> Video Kind of a paticular video and i set it to TV SHOW, when i upload to iPod i cant find it, but i change it MOVIE i can see and play the video. I just want to put my tv shows in the TV SHOWS subfolder on the ipod, anyone have any ideas how to make this work.
ie, Scrubs episode 504 want to put it under TV Shows option on ipod but wont go there have to keep video kind as MOVIE.
Thanks guys!!

Hey guys,
Stayed up most of the night figuring this one out...!
The new iTunes has added a bunch of tags to the new video mp4s. One of those tags designates the TV Show that the video pertains to. This is different from and in addition to the 'Artist' and 'Album' tags.
You can view this tag by arranging your video files in List format in iTunes and selecting 'TV Shows' at the top of the screen.
The stupid thing is, iTunes doesn't let you change these tags. Hopefully, the next version will fix that...
So, you'll have to download a program that lets you edit these tags. I used a program called AtomicParsley (for Windows XP). I think you can find it at http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net. There are some others for OSX, I think. Do a good enough internet search and you'll find one.
AtomicParsley edits the tags by creating a whole new file (which can take a while depending on the size of the file), then overwriting the old one. iTunes takes a minute to recognise the changes. You can clue it in by right-clicking on the file.
You'll actually be able to edit tags for season and episode numbers, and those will carry through to the iPod when you update it.
Anyway, good luck.
Robin

Batch joining of movies while adding chapters

I can not seem to find any good tools out there that will batch join video files while adding chapters.
I have 20 folders, each with 20-30 avi files. I want to be able to join each video clip in each folder into one movie while making the start of each clip a new chapter. I would also like to be able to use compressor to compress the video.
I have found a few that let me join them, but they either do not support chapters, or the chapters dont load in DVD Studio Pro.
Any advice?

Well if you are trying to join .avi and not .m2v then you can use pretty much whatever you want! FCP, Avid, Prem (coming back to mac), QT Pro etc.
Most encoders (Compressor, Bitvice etc) allow you input timecodes where you want chapters or add markers that dvdsp will recognise. If you do that you'll be able to add (or import with a marker list txt file) in dvdsp.
If you want to join m2v's then you can use MPEGAppend, Unix commands or the dvdsp timeline even...
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HT3209 My purchased iTunes videos no longer play on either of my Windows 7 computers. When I try to play any of them, it shuts down iTunes. Any ideas? I do have the latest itunes software loaded. jgh

My purchased itunes videos no longer play on my Windows 7 computers. When I click on a movie, itunes shuts down with an error message. Movies played fine until now. Any ideas out there?
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Hello can some please help I am trying to watch my HBO go on my apple tv I have sound no picture. I can watch my iTunes videos and youtube on my airplay with my ipad and everything is updated so I know it works. But not on HBO go, Max go, showtime go.

What you want to do does not work with an iPd running iOS 5. See the screenshot.
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can i choose which songs are added to the itunes match library?

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Windows Vista + iTunes Video = skipping

I have a computer with Windows Vista and I can't get iTunes video to work properly. The sound will be fine, but the video skips and stops and then finally I get an error message saying that iTunes has to close. Please tell me that there is some kind of solution. I have updated my Vista software, my itunes software and anything else that I can think of.

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Got this issue with older iTunes when Vista was new.
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