Imovie won't playback on video ipod

I converted my movie 6 movie to share it with my video ipod. It shows up and plays in itunes. The movie also shows up on my video ipod but when I go to play it all I get is a black screen for a few seconds and then it goes back to the movie title in the play list. Help!!

I have exactly same problem. Came on here to see if there were previous threads about this problem. A bit worrying that a solution hasn't already been posted. I thought I was forgetting to do something fundemental. I have managed to download onto my iPod music vids and video podcasts that I purchased from iTunes music store and although I can import and play ripped dvd's in iTunes they do not play back on iPod even though they are listed in menu, I just get 10 seconds of a black screen. Hopefully somebody will be able to advise us as to a solution?

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But it was the actual MP4 file downloaded from Apple's own website, so I doubt that it was encoded incorrectly. I think it's faulty software, and I'm waiting for Apple to release a patch to fix it. But I don't expect they'll admit it. On the other hand, I can't help but wonder if it has something to do with the fact that my iPod was originally encoded to work on PCs.
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As to the file being from Apple's own web site, I don't consider that a guarantee that mistakes won't be made. However, as a commercial ($$$) enterprise, I consider their product in a "professional" light and hold them to a higher standard than I would others. The file I previosuly mentioned was, strangely enough, a tutorial on podcasting. It is from a series dealing with Apple products (like Aperture) and techniques (like exporting an iPod compatible file from iMovie or batch procissing in QT using Automator) so I assumed the authors are either Apple Techs or Apple "Specialists." That is why I was surprised when one of the podcasts would not sync.
In any case, the conversion of media to iPod compatible format and podcasting is in what... a 60-75 day infancy. So I do expect there will be problems. Especially based on the mistakes I've made in performing any own conversions and initial podcasting test of a public domain (old 1936 Republic "Saturday" matinee movie) Ray "Crash" Corrigan serial. Software, techniques, and workflows simply aren't "perfected" at this point, so I tend to try and learn from the mistakes -- both my own and others.
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