Creating a video podcast?

Can I create a video podcast through iMovie? I was planning on recording audio and inserting photos to go along, then Share -> iPod. Will that work?
Thanks!
Valleen

I'm not sure if this information will help you or not...but I did a podcast in Soundtrack Pro and saved it (using their podcast tutorial) to an M4A file. (I have an enhanced podcast.) I had trouble submitting the entire complete podcast to itunes, until I imported it to garage band, then iweb and filled out the podcast info again and let iweb submit it to itunes...they must do encoding in the back office of those programs, and my podcast was accepted by itunes everything intact. It appears that garage band and itunes know just what to compress to make it podcast ready. I have met with mac genius's, and done one on one appointments, but no one at my Mac store had ever submitted a podcast using Soundtrack Pro, so I knew more than they did having read the tutuorials. I'll watch this post to see what else you learn...as education about making Final Cut stuff podcast available in itunes is hard to find.

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How to create a Video Podcast?

Hi,
I have a question about how to create a Video Podcast.
What I like to do is record what I can see ON my screen. And I don't want to use a Video Cam to make Videos of it.
If anyone knows how to to that or if there is an application I could use it would be great.
What I am looking for more or less is an App like Audio HiJack Pro - well more like a Video HiJack Pro. The question is not about how to do the encoding once I have the Video.
Any ideas? Any would be great. Just tell me how its done and what I need to buy.
Thanks a lot
LaForge

LaForge,
I use Snapz Pro X by Ambrosia Software.
I've made some video podcasts of tutorials of iMovie for my work, and you can see them here: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=74837876
The video gets jerky when capturing the video within iMovie, but it may be because I only have 512 MB of RAM. But for just capturing stuff like opening folders and what not, it will do the trick.

Creating a video podcast with iMovie?

Can I create a video podcast through iMovie? I was planning on recording audio and inserting photos to go along, then Share -> iPod. Will that work?
Thanks!

I would recommend Podcast Maker. I used it for my audio podcast; I've not done video podcasting but it does say that it handles .mov files.
Once you have your media files sorted, Podcast Maker will do the rest. You enter the server details, and the descriptions and so on, and the locations on your Mac of the media files; it will then in one go write the feed, and upload it and the files to your server. It writes good clean rss and you shouldn't have any problems. Obviously you will need to study their instructions first, but it's not too complicated.
(I don't have any association with this firm,)
If you want an associated web site you will need to construct it yourself, using links to the media files once they've been uploaded.
If you feel the temptation to get involved with FeedBurner or similar services I would advise resisting it: they work most of the time but if there is a problem (and I've seen a lot come up in this forum) it's almost impossible to sort it out. It's also pretty well impossible to move the feed to a different URL.

Creating a Video Podcast in Soundtrack Pro

sorry, posted this in the wrong place

I'm not sure if this information will help you or not...but I did a podcast in Soundtrack Pro and saved it (using their podcast tutorial) to an M4A file. (I have an enhanced podcast.) I had trouble submitting the entire complete podcast to itunes, until I imported it to garage band, then iweb and filled out the podcast info again and let iweb submit it to itunes...they must do encoding in the back office of those programs, and my podcast was accepted by itunes everything intact. It appears that garage band and itunes know just what to compress to make it podcast ready. I have met with mac genius's, and done one on one appointments, but no one at my Mac store had ever submitted a podcast using Soundtrack Pro, so I knew more than they did having read the tutuorials. I'll watch this post to see what else you learn...as education about making Final Cut stuff podcast available in itunes is hard to find.

Running itunes 10.6.1.7. did reorg of lib to new struct. reorg left all video podcasts in old folder. I cannot view video podcasts itunes or download. help please.

I just installed itunes 10.6.1.7. on a new PC connected an external hard drive containing my itunes library and pointed to my library on an external hard drive.
I also did reorganization of my library structure via "organize library" menu option. The reorg left all video podcasts in the old podcast folder and will not let me copy them to the new podcast folder.
From the itunes store I cannot select a new video podcast and download and view it in itunes. The podcast will show up but the file or episode has a "GET" button next to it and never shows it as available to view in itunes. I have attempted to download many time with no success.
I have podcasts that are all video podcasts and some that are mixed audio podcasts and video podcasts. in both cases the video podcasts remained in the original folder location.
The video podcasts are not in movies or in tv shows. All music is present and accounted for that I know.
How can I restore all video podcasts previously downloaded and view them on itunes or an ipod?
Can I create a video podcast option in itunes?
Please help.

Issue solved - It turns out that the QuickTime version on my PC was 6.5 and I needed to update to version 7.6 or higher to allow videos to play in iTunes. I updated to QuickTime version 7.7 and then added the old podcast folder to iTunes while in podcasts. This found all video podcast content and then the auto reorg moved all folders to the new podcast directory. For the videos I manually moved earlier, I had to move (not copy) them back to the old directory or folder then add that old folder and they were now in the right directory and viewable in iTunes.

Embedding "album cover" image in a video podcast file

I've created a video podcast and successfully submitted it to ITMS. The issue is that the individual episodes of my video podcast do not have cover art images associated with them. Instead, when I test subscribed to my video podcast, it generated an "album cover" for the podcast in a seemingly random fashion. For the first episode, it grabbed a still frame from second 6 of the .m4v file. and for the second episode, it grabbed a still frame from second 11 of the .m4v file.
So, I thought I would go into the .m4v file via QTPro and create an image metadata association like is done with ID3 tags in .mp3 files. However, I cannot find a away to do that.
Does anyone know how to embed an "album cover" image into a video podcast file (.m4v file)?
If I add an image to the file via iTunes Get Info>Art Work tab and then export it back to my server, will the added image stay embedded in the .m4v file so that when others subscribe to my video podcast they will see my selected "album" artwork for that episode?
You can view my video podcast at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=83434502

Super Mario:
You were correct. Adding album artwork through iTunes "Get Info>Art Work" tab and then exporting my video podcast file back out to my server did the trick. I tested subscribing to it and this time my video podcasts had the album artwork that I selected attached to them.
Also, thank you for the compliment on my sci-fi video podcasts. I'm currently working on a major overhaul of the website which will serve the fans of the series (if any). You can check it out in about two days at http://www.sayremedia.com.

Video Podcast not showing up in Category listings on ITMS

I've created a video podcast, submitted it to ITMS, it was approved and has been available for 2 weeks now.
My main category is INVESTING.
When I search the ITMS for my podcast by name, two of the three formats (iPod & iPhone) of my podcast are correctly listed (the HD version is curiously not listed in a search, but is available using the link provided by the ITMS).
But, when I browse the INVESTING category, none of them are listed.
When I view my podcast in the ITMS after searching for it, the categories appear to be set correctly (INVESTING, TRAINING) in each of them.
Why? What can I do to have it listed in the Category browse windows?
Thanks!
Doug
Message was edited by: Doug Forman

Sorry to say, but the "browse" feature in the iTMS seems to be on the fritz, with no immediate fix in sight. The category/subcategory listings appear to have a limit on the number of podcasts that are able to be displayed (about 1000), so until this is fixed or iTunes cleans house and gets rid of dead podcasts, you are unfortunately out of luck. Welcome to the club.

Video podcast format for iPods

I created a video podcast and the RSS feed was successfully accepted by iTunes.
The first two episodes download through iTunes fine. The only problem is that the video file would not transfer to any video iPod. The first two episodes were 320x240 .mov files.
So, I read some sites and found out that it needed to be a .m4v file. I edit the show in iMovie. After finishing the third episode, I used iMovie to "Share to iPod" which I figured would format the file into a proper format for an iPod.
The 3rd episode is uploaded onto the RSS feed, but iTunes doesn't recognize this and make the file available for download. It still only has the first two episodes for download.
Any suggestions? Do I need to use Quicktime Pro and use that to convert the files?
If it helps, here is a link to the feed in iTunes.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=214350353
Thanks for the help in advance.

I dont know about doing it the "easy" way with apps that do all the work for you. Here it is the "hard" manual way.
You should create a graphic specifically for this purpose and upload that JPEG file to the pace where your podcast episodes are hosted. Then you can post the URL of the picture into your RSS feed, in the top part where all the main info about your podcast is. It should look like this:
<itunes:image href="http://www.kutvfreshair.com/podcast/bloopersLogo.jpg" />
where the "href" is the http of your picture.
G5 dual 2.7 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

How Do I Create A Video Podcas

Hi I'm new with I tunes and I was wondering how to create a video podcast?????

Poor design IMO. If I see three buttons labelled
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Square
with Photo highlighted, then the intuitively obvious action required for switching to Video is simply to tap that, in common with almost every other tablet and smartphone app I've ever used.
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Hosting for video podcast

I intend to create a video podcast (1 or 2, 15-minutes episodes/month). My shortlist for the hosting service is:
www.Podbean.com
www.Libsyn.com
and www.typepad.com
Any positive/negative experiences with any of the three mentioned above? Thanks.

Can't say I know much about any of the three you listed, theHman, but I would definitely back up *David Tames* in saying that I've heard/seen good things about blip.tv -- they would be especially good for you because they will auto-generate a podcast feed for you (just be sure that if you submit your feed to the iTMS, that you pick the version that has the QuickTime format in it, and not the Flash video format which is the default).
GoDaddy.com . . . ugh. Quite a few of the questions/complaints that we get on this board are rooted in problems with their hosting service, either because of outages or because they don't support some file types. Personally, I would stay away from them.
Good Luck.
Peach

Cannot download or watch old or new video podcasts after iTunes directory reorg

I just installed itunes 10.6.1.7. on a new PC connected an external hard drive containing my itunes library and pointed to my library on an external hard drive. That seems to have worked fine except for the issue described below.
I also did reorganization of my library structure via "organize library" menu option. The reorg left all video podcasts in the old podcast folder and will not let me copy them to the new podcast folder. I have podcasts that are all video podcasts and some that are mixed audio podcasts and video podcasts. In both cases the video podcasts remained in the original or old folder location. In the case of the mixed video and audio it just left the video episodes in the old folder and moved the audio podcasts.
If I select a new video podcast from the itunes store and download it, I cannot view it in itunes. An example of a new video podcast I attempted to download is "MinutePhysics". The podcast will display as one of my podcasts in itunes but the file or episode has a "GET" button next to it and never shows it as available to view in itunes. It looks like it is downloading to my hard drive but after it downloads I cannot locate the file in any directories.
In Advanced Preferences on the Advanced tab I have checked and unchecked "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" and that does not make a difference checked or unchecked.
The video podcasts are not in movies or in tv shows. All music is present and accounted for that I know.
How can I restore all video podcasts previously downloaded and view them on itunes or an ipod?
Can I create a video podcast option in itunes?
Please help.

Issue solved - It turns out that the QuickTime version on my PC was 6.5 and I needed to update to version 7.6 or higher to allow videos to play in iTunes. I updated to QuickTime version 7.7 and then added the old podcast folder to iTunes while in podcasts. This found all video podcast content and then the auto reorg moved all folders to the new podcast directory. For the videos I manually moved earlier, I had to move (not copy) them back to the old directory or folder then add that old folder and they were now in the right directory and viewable in iTunes. Thanks for the reply.

Record Video Podcast Directly to Desktop With QT Pro?

Hello all,
I was creating my video podcasts, but importing video into iMovie, then exporting.
I was trying to learn how to hook my minidv camcorder via firewire and record directly to my desktop. Not record then import, but record and save directly to the desktop.
I had read about people doing this with the iSight camera using QT Pro. I also read that using QT Pro, this should work with a minidv camcorder.
I purchased QT Pro last night to enable the "New Movie Recording" feature and I followed the directions here--> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/videopodcasts.html
However, I can't get it to work. When following the above directions, there is no choice other than "Automatic" under Video Source. Shouldn't my camcorder be recognized as a choice here?
I have plugged my camcorder in via firewire and tried setting it to "manual", "play", and "automatic" with no results.
Can someone tell me if this is possible and if so maybe offer some advice on what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

However, I can't get it to work. When following the above directions, there is no choice other than "Automatic" under Video Source. Shouldn't my camcorder be recognized as a choice here?
"Automatic" detection of audio and video is normal (at least it is when mine is plugged in). Only have one such device, so I don't know if "named" devices are used when more than one is attached.
I have plugged my camcorder in via firewire and tried setting it to "manual", "play", and "automatic" with no results.
Assume "Manual" and "Automatic" here are the equivalent to my "Camera" function (in auto or manual mode) for the capture of "live" material. ("Play" would be used for the capture of previously recorded material.)
Can someone tell me if this is possible and if so maybe offer some advice on what I may be doing wrong?
Yes. The only problem you should encounter is a possible reduction in frame rate dependent up CPU power, capture mode used, and number of processes running simultaneously.
I'm sorry, I forgot to add that when I choose "New Movie Recording" quicktime errors with the message that the device is in use with another program. Which, to my knowledge, is not the case. I do not have iChat or AOL running. In fact, I have tried with no other programs running....that I could see anyway.
When "New Movie Recoding" is selected, the preview window should open displaying what the camera is pointed at (if turned on in proper mode). Based on your "error message," it would appear that your computer thinks some other application (or connected hardware) has control of your camera. Try a "Force Quit" of running applications and "Quit" in the Avtivity Monitor to exit other "hidden" processes that might be causing problems.

Podcast Producer- How do I create an audio podcast?

Hi all!
I know how to create a video podcast using blip.tv.
I would like to create an audio podcast. I have Mac OS X Version 10.6.8 and I've heard of Podcast Producer but I don't know how to install it or locate it, anything I find online talks about servers which I have no clue about. I do know how to use GarageBand to record a podcast but I don't know how to send it anywhere.
Any help? I need clear simple instructions. Thanks.

Hi Roger,
I am in a similar boat to emotionboy and I was hoping you could help me. I think I need the functionality of Podcast Producer (I'll explain why) but I can't get past the setup phase. I have no idea what to put in for SERVER.
I am trying to do a presentation with video screen capture of multiple documents and audio voiceover. I'm also interested in the picture-in-picture functionality although I can complete my project without this.
If it's helpful: I do not need to be able to manage a team of people doing podcasts or anything like that. It's just me, at home, with my 13" macbook pro (brand new), trying to do a presentation for a client. (I am a consultant.)
Thank you so very much, Roger!
Diane

How do I create a self-contained video podcast for download?

I have a series of videos from a conference I taped years ago that I want to make availanble to people as a digital download. I have purchased some training coruses from places like Ripple that send you an e-mail with a link to the download the course material. Clicking on it opens up iTiunes and downloads the entire training course as a Podcast (video). So it is not hosted on iTunes and is self-contianed to download all "eppisodes."
How is this done? How is this created so I can post it on a server and have people download it? Auto-instal to iTunes would be nice if easily acheivable.
Thanks.

This page explains how to create a podcast:
http://rfwilmut.net/pc
It's written with audio podcasts in mind, but there's little difference in making a video podcast. Your video files must be .mp4, .m4v or .mov, not .wma or .swf (Flash).
In the 'enclosure' tag the 'type attribute must be as follows for the different file types:
.mp4
video/mp4
.m4v
video/x-m4v
.mov
video/quicktime
Most podcast creation programs or service will handle that for you, so it's probably only relevant if you are handwriting the feed.

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I Have heard that Garage band can create video podcast. Is there some tutorial on how to create them?

Search GB's Help for "video".

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