Change artwork for music video

I imported a movie downloaded from a web site. The artwork was automatically generated from a frame of the movie that iTunes randomly picked. I want to add my own artwork instead, but iTunes won't let me add or delete the artwork!

That is the defult artwork. It seems to me that the only way to change the art for videos (like adding the movie poster image) is to have the video in mp4 or m4v format. You can do this by going to Advanced> Convert Selection For iPod.
Once it is in that format add the artwork to the movie by going File> Get Info> Artwork then click add (if the artwork is saved on your computer) or just click the blank area and paste the artwork in (if you are copying and pasteing). Then click OK.

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Is there a way to automatically import artwork for music already in librar?

Is there a way to automatically import artwork for music already in library?
I just transferred all my music from a PC into my new mac.
I saw a widget that fetches the album artwork from the web. great fun!!!
Now is there a way to fetch all these artworks automatically.
I did not use istore to buy the music - but imported from my cd collection.
Thanks.
What a great system - simple and no hassles. Thanks Apple. Goodbye PC.

If you are using AlbumArt widget you can do this with the widget interface.

Iso, Shutter Speed, Aperture, White balance for music videos or film?

Hello everyone. I just started making music videos. I just want some tips or can someone direct me to a good guide for music videos. I know the basics of iso, shutter speed, and aperture already. I read some guides and so far I know I gotta put my shutter at 1/50 or if i'm recording something at high speed, i increase it. is it so? Also, I always put my aperture at the lowest. I have a Canon T2i and Canon lenses 50 f/1.8 and kit lens. I always put my aperture at the lowest 3.5(kit lens) or 1.8. The tricky part is the ISO. I don't know where to put my ISO. I know the lowest ISO is good but sometimes the video looks dark. Do I fix this in video editing programs? Like should I always stay at ISO 100? What about white balance? I use Final Cut 7.
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your questions are about the very basics of photography.
I would consider to buy a book, which explains photography 'from the ground' ("... for dummies.." not meant as an offence!)
in short:
a scenery offers a defined amount of light.
Your cameras 'film' aka sensor, needs a defined amount of light to deliver a picture.
So, on recoprding, you have to control the amount of light, and the controls are:
aperture - opened or closed
shutter - shorter or longer
speed (ISO) - higher or lower.
Imagine the light as a stream of tiny balls, coming from your scenery: a bigger hole = aperture lets more balls into the cam. A shorter shutter speed reduces the amount of balls. And a higher ISO catches more balls than a lower. ..
Understanding that, you realize that those parameters are crosswise-related: an open aperture + a shorter shutter speed results in the same amount of light on the sensor as a closed aperture and a longer shutter speed.
If the amount of light is still too much, lower the sensitivity = ISO.
If the amount of light is too little, open the aperture, or use a longer shutter speed or raise the sensitivity.
When you set one or two parameters in this equation, you have to adjust the other ones: Video-makers start with the shutter speed, usually set to 1/2 of frame-rate = 1/50 - 1/60 - why? Because it allows a nice looking 'smear' aka motion-blur aka 'film look'.
Now, with a given speed, you can conrtol teh amount of light for the sensor only by aparture; and when you reach limits, by setting ISO.
When you understood this BY PRACTICING, you're next step is the concept of 'shallow focus'/depth of field. And when you understood this BY PRACTICING, you'll will understand the need of Neutral Densitity Filters for movie-makers...
But first things first: buy a book; read your cam's amnual; practice the settings and watch carefully the different results, diff. settings result.
... and it's really just about basics - independently of your device and/or your software.
None of the things mentioned above can be done or 'fixed' in post... (basically...)
happy movie making!

Text pluggin for music video text

I am looking for a text plugin for music video text. Can anyone recommend one?

You mean the typical text insert that announces the song title and artist?
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How do I change the Sort order for Music Video's on the iPad

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Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere - I can find posts about sort order for TV Shows and Movies but not Music Video's.
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Hi!
Im afraid I believe this cannot be done yet. Sorry!
You can try submitting feedback to apple by clicking [here|http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html] if you wish.
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Is there a way to disable the itunes video pop up for music videos in itunes 11?

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I've been adding a collection of tv series I have on DVD to iTunes 9.1.1, it all worked fine initially, I opened each video up of a series of tv programs and used the "Set Poster Frame" option to capture a frame of the program to use as the artwork for that program.
I normally have the programs sorted by what tv program they belong to, so Cover flow only displays the first episode of a series' artwork. I'm not sure why though but something I did yesterday appears to have caused cover flow to blow a fuse.
If I chose to sort by name before, cover flow would display all the artwork for each episode, and it showed all the different artworks correctly. Now though after some fiddling I did which I cannot seem to recount my steps back to, it only displays the same two pieces of artwork from two particular episodes for all the videos when it is sorted via name:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3052/tvprogcoverflow.png
I've tried removing all the artwork, but there doesn't seem to be an option to delete the poster frame and the poster frame artwork doesn't show up under the artwork tab for the individual videos so I can't delete anything from there. If I select all the videos and then right click and get info, then select the artwork check box and click OK it seemingly deletes all the artwork... Then replaces it again with the exact same artwork!
Although cover flow shows each video has having the same artwork if I Get Info each video it clearly shows it having the correct artwork so why cover flow is messing around like this I don't know.
I've tried deleting the album artwork cache in the itunes folder, didn't work. I even tried deleting my entire itunes folder which I have separate from my library and the hidden prefs file in my actual library, but that didn't work either.
Interestingly enough, if I re-add all the videos they automatically get listed as films and go under the film tab. When looking at them under their cover flow correctly shows every episode with the right artwork:
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/8234/filmcoverflow.png
As soon as I change the Get Info options tab from Film to TV program either for one video or all of them, then cover flow screws up again.
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The weird thing is, it worked before. I encoded all the videos previously and had them all listed and didn't encounter this problem, but I noticed I'd forgotten to decomb/detelecine the videos so I deleted everything and re-encoded it all. AFter filling the tags out and setting poster frames again I was thinking of making life easier by just pasting the same artwork for every episode, so I did, but didn't like the results so I deleted it again (I selected every video, used Get Info and pasted the artwork that way).
I think it was after this that the problem started to occur. In any case I've been through every episode and made sure the name, series, episode and episode id fields are all filled in with incremental values and they are. I even made sure the Sort Name field was filled in on every video. But this didn't work either.
So, thinking another restart was needed I deleted every video again. Re-encoded them all, again. Set the tags for every video and poster frame again. Finished it all off nicely, checked cover flow and was highly annoyed to find it was STILL showing the same two pieces of art work for every video as shown in that image I posted.
Ultimately, I wouldn't care so much that cover flow is screwing up like this as I always intended to sort by program anyway so it would only ever display one piece of artwork for an entire series of videos, however where-as when it was working it picked the artwork for the first episode of a series to display, its instead picking one of the latter episodes. I can't seem to find any way of choosing what artwork I want displayed.

Need to recreate artwork for imported video clips

Anyone know how to make iTunes regenerate artwork for video clips it has imported?
About three weeks ago I upgraded from 7.1.something to 7.3.2. Huge mistake. Huge. I have about about 5,000 video clips in iTunes and when the update had finished the artwork for about 98% of them was gone and the remaining ones were "misplaced," i.e., the artwork has nothing to do with the clip it's attached to. For every one of these clips the artwork had been generated when the clip was imported, now there's no artwork or the artwork is wrong and iTunes won't let me do the "set artwork to poster frame" routine - as if I would consider doing that for 5,000 clips. It's almost as if iTunes considers the new, "blank artwork" to be real, unmodifiable artwork except that it doesn't take up space in Cover Flow.
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I'd recommend you grab After Effects for your special effects and if you have a lot of editing, also Premiere. Although you can do it all in After Effects, Premiere is a lot easier to edit with. The combination is used very frequently. All your assets from your other applications are usable to various extents in both of these applications.

Change "Movies" to Music Videos

Ok, I have the iTunes 8.0 and I just tried to add some music videos to it and it added it in the movie section, like it always has, but when I try to change it to a music video it's not like it use to be. I tried right click>get info>video tab> video kind that's how I usually do it and it always worked before but now there is no drop down list.
So I was wondering if anyone knows how I can do this, change my "movies" to music videos.
Thanks in advance. GB

This option has been moved. Look for "Media Kind" under the Options tab. You can now even select multiple tracks and apply this option.
Enjoy life,
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I have been converting TV episodes to play on my iPod touch and when I add them into the iTunes catalog it considers them "movies".
If I “get info” on a single file and go to the "Video" tab, I have the options to select "Video Kind" (the options are Movie, Music Video and TV show) and the option to enter the name of the show. However, if I select several videos and "get info" iTunes gives me the standard choices for changing the identity tags... the same as for a music file.
The best description I can figure to give this is an ID3 tag for video... anyhew, on to my question.
I have converted the full run of South Park (don't worry they were recorded digitally from TV and I am using them myself)and that is A LOT of episodes if I were to go into each file individually. Is there a way to select a number of video files and select "TV Show" and have them all marked with South Park as the show title?
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NOS

This shortcoming of iTunes has bothered many of us for a long time. All the TV shows I offload to DVD-R for space and then later bring back into iTunes become "Movie" again, and I have to fix each one. There is no way to batch-edit the Video Kind choice in iTunes.
The easiest workaround I've found is to select the first TV show in the playlist or library, Get Info, change the video kind to "TV Show," and then use the Next button. The Video Kind box will remain active, and you can press arrow-down on the keyboard to choose "TV Show" again. Click Next, arrow-down, click Next, arrow-down . . . Soon you will have fixed all the files in the list.
Now start at the top again and type "South Park" into the Show field. Copy the words. Click Next, and paste the words. Next, paste, Next, paste . . . Now you will have given all the shows the correct name.
Another oddness about this Video tab: See the box for episode number? ITunes doesn't use that in the TV Shows library. It uses the music track number on the General tab.

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Ah... you were talking about that little dropdown menu.
I didn't find any way to manipulate this for several tracks at once. Let Apple know about this issue, send them a feature request: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

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I've fought and fought with iTunes and I cannot figure out how to make a Smart Playlist that JUST HAS MUSIC videos.
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I'm think you may be misunderstanding what I'm suggesting. I'm don't mean the "video kind" in the Options panel of the Get Info window. I mean the "Kind" located in the Summary panel.
Each file in iTunes has a "Kind" designation. For example music you buy from the iTMS is Kind: Protected AAC Audio File; the video's I got when I purchased Neil Young's latest album are Kind: QuickTime Move File. The pilot episode of Conviction I download is Kind: Protected MPEG-4 Video File. I suspect this last one is what kind of files the music video's are. To find out:
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2. Make the appropriate menu selections so the criteria are "Kind IS Protected MPEG-4 video file." If your videos are more than one "Kind" repeat this step as necessary.
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Put it in a container with rice, close it and pray hard that the damage isn't permanent. I know someone who had a similar situation, got lucky and their phone works perfectly. I also know another person whose phone was permanently damage.
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