Enhanced podcast question

I'm not certain if this is a podcasting or an ipod question, but I will pop it up here and see if anybody knows the answer. A school I am working at has been producing some nice enhanced (slide show) podcasts. They play just fine in iTunes and iWeb and loaded into a 5G iPod, there's no problem either. But in a couple of brand new "Classic" iPods, every time the podcast is played, the picture jumps forward a few slides at the beginning and the sound is mismatched.
Any clues?

Well, then Steve has it all backwards this time...older 5G players have no trouble. It's the new "classic" machines that are messing up the podcast...
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I just plugged in my iPhone and it turns out that my podcast can't be dragged on it - I suppose it wants to there through syncing? So It's a bit of a hybrid file: neither a simple m4a nor a podcast.. sigh
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Enhanced podcasts, images do not update in separate window?

Hi all, when I watch an enhanced podcast, the images update in the itunes artwork window as they should,
but if I click on the window to display the images in a separate window the images do not update in the new window,
if I do this with a video podcast then it works just fine, the video plays in the separate window without any problems,
is this a bug, or is itunes not able to do this yet?
cheers, Rob

Hi Rob,
Did you ever figure this out? I posted two similar questions (with no replies) before seeing yours. If this feature does not exist, I am thinking that this is something that Apple needs to address in the next iTunes update. Since Apple is promoting enhanced podcasts, it is only reasonable that iTunes make them easy to watch.
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http://web.mac.com/joetye1/iWeb/NTRM/Podcast/Podcast.html
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I'm having the same problem but in Safari. I can see my podcast artwork and play / pause / start buttons whilst the page is loading but when the page is complete, the podcast turns into the broken quicktime logo.
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My students created an enhanced podcast . . . I sent it to my webpage (iWeb), opened it in Safari and there's a funky question mark where the podcast should be.
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Hi
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4555624#4555624
covers this exact issue - post back if you need more help.
the post here has the work-round.

Enhanced podcasts on iPhone not playing pictures

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About the Podcasts app for iOS
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5295
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When I am watching a video in iTunes, I can option-click the small image and the movie will play (almost) full-screen in its own window.
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Here’s my question / problem:
When viewing an enhanced podcast in its own window, the pictures do not change in the large window. I can see the pictures still changing in the smaller “album art” window, but the only way to view the picture sequence in the larger window seems to be to click on the small image every time it advances to the new image.
Is this right? Is there some way to watch the changing pictures in their own window?
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here's been my work around solution that seems to work fine - there's probably a quicker way, so let me know.
1. from garage band, share to disk (for better quality images, i took off the set images to 300x300 box). don't send to itunes yet. file exports as an .m4a.
2. open .m4a file using quicktime (i use quicktime player 10.0). file uploads images, chapters, etc.
3. save file as .mov file. (select format that works for you - i've been trying the HD 480p option).
4. drag .mov file to itunes.
5. sync MOVIES. play within movies.
6. play out of the video APP.
hope that helps. let me know if you have any better luck or other options. seems terrible that i would have to save every enhanced podcast as a .mov file.
-jjr

Enhanced Podcasts - opitmal photo sizes

The Nano, 4G and 5G iPods have a different screen sizes, so what's the best size for the pictures in an Enhanced Podcast?
Also, what format is best to avoid re-compression? -- Jpeg?
Thanks!

I started this post thinking the 4G and nano's ratios were the same, but now I've learned different! The 5G and nano resolutions have the same ratio, ie. a 320x240 picture scaled for the nano will still fill the screen. AND, I believe I ran tests earlier that showed that a picture at a 4:3 ratio will still fill an iPod color 4G screen with no black edges (I believe the left and right edges are chopped off.)
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I have a podcast up on my son's website, http://web.mac.com/bauerkemper
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Hi all. I am looking at creating enhanced podcasts. On Google I found a mysterious app that Apple has apperantly created - "Chapter Tool Beta". However, all links to this app are dead. Any idea what happened to that app?
Also, what are some alternatives? Garage Band doesn't work well, as in this project I am working on, we have to show a screen shot, then in the next "frame" same screen shot, but with a highlight box over an area. And, it's hard to line up images in GB. Any ideas? Thanks,

I think the Chapter Tool is now dead - though someone did ask about this a few weeks back: it might be worth searching for the thread to see whether anyone could help.
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I can't get garageband to export! It keeps getting stuck at 'creating chapters' when I try to export my enhanced podcast. Please help!

I am trying to export my enhanced podcast through garageband. I have all the current updates. I am on my MacBookPro 10.6.8 2.3GHz with 8GB ram. My enhanced podcast (podcast with pictures) is about 80 mins long and I have tried exporting with everything from the lowest settings to the highest always with the same result. I have tried deleting GB preferences. I have tried repairing permissions to no avail.
I hit export to disk or send to itunes.
I select some AAC format I want (optimized for spoken podcast).
It slowly builds the mix, normalizes, and creates chapters (yeah, it goes through the creating chapters bar to completion)
Then it goes all candystripe on the creating chapters bar once it fills up and will hang forever (hung for 8 hours....pretty much sounds like 'forever' in my book).
Please help...I have my podcast sitting there waiting to be used....I have tried exporting smaller chunks (by moving the end of file bar) but that doesn't work either. Is there a way to just send the pictures and the picture start times over to imovie and work with it there? I'd much rather work with the tools that imovie has but man that program is just a PITA to use when you want to run through 100+ pictures for variable durations (whereas it's easy to just drag and drop with garageband as you do playback).
The file only has one stereo audio track!

Hi notmatthew, I have exactly the same problem as you. I am trying to export a podcast about iPod X Anniversary so I need to publish it next sunday.
It's midnight in Spain but tomorrow I will tray something I read in other post:
w4b3l said:
Problem solved.
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Enhanced podcasts

No where on Apple's site does it say that YOU MUST HAVE CHAPTER TOOL to post enhanced podcasts made in Garage band.
Yet it seems that other people on the web have posted this info.
http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/PodcastChapterTool#iPodChapterBug
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This forum is for the program iWeb, which is not involved in the creation of podcasts. You should post your problem in the forums for Garageband:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=127
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