IPhone video specifications

I downloaded a TV show from iTunes that has a resolution of 853x480.
According to the iPhone tech specs, 640x480 is the maximum resolution allowed for iPhone video.
However, iTunes allows me to sync it with my iPhone.
I have my own personal video that is 720x480 (in Quicktime format).
iTunes will NOT let me sync it with my iPhone. To make it iPhone friendly, iTunes lowers the quality to 640x426.
How come iTunes has no problem syncing the 853x480 video? It clearly breaks the limit set in the Tech Specs.

have you tried the 'create iPod or iPhone version' in iTunes? first, click on a video file and then click on 'advanced' in the menu bar, and select 'create iPod or iPhone version'. does that help?

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I'm specifically referring to how it handles chapters and episode info.
1 - episode info
With the iphone, when I'm looking at the list of videos, in addition to the show title, it displays the season and episode #.
With the ipad, it only shows show title. And since episodes are for some reason sorted by show title, it's impossible to play the show back in episode # order, since it's not displayed...
2- chapters
With the iphone, when a video with chapter marks is being played back, as part of the play controls, there is a chapter option so you can see what and where the chapter marks are and can easily go to them directly.
With the ipad, this chapter option is not there. You can only get to a specific chapter by forwarding chapters one-by-one.
No idea why the two players can't have the same functionality.
Hopefully someone from apple can see this and consider it for a future update.
(is this the best way to get them info/suggestions for future updates???)

Actually, this is the best way to get feedback to Apple for this. Apple employees only moderate this forum for abuse and violations of the terms of use.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Burn iPhone videos to dvd

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Yes, there are programs that will put a movie on a DVD. I have tried most of the other substitutes including Toast, Burn, and others. None of them come anywhere near the ease-of-use and power of iDVD. IDVD is specifically designed to work with iMovie.
With iDVD you can easily and quickly create DVDs with menus and graphics almost on the level of what Hollywood can do.
IDVD is easy to get. It is available on disk as part of iLife 11.
IDVD is a wonderful piece of software and well worth the low cost of $40.
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MC623Z-A-iLife-VERSION/dp/B003XKRZES/ref=sr_1_1?ie=U
http://dealmac.com/lw/artclick.html?1,527850,1872219

Importing from iPhone video camera?

I'm about to start a an audio/video project and wanted to just put this out there for some advice. 3 Camera iPhone 4 shoot, 1 prerecorded audio track. Not planning on using the audio from the iphones. I've never imported iPhone video into FCE. Any suggestions? Any know problems with this? I'm planning on doing it all in HD. Then syncing the video to the audio track. (The audio track is just an Mp3.) Will this just be super easy and straight forward? I've done this same thing with Canon Vixia HD cameras before and it was no problem. Does the iPhone present any particular issues?
Thanks

Thanks Tom. (BTW, love your book!)
So, how do I convert these files? I've always just dragged things into the timeline before, then rendered them, but I don't want any funny business. Is there a specific way I should prepare these files before I bring them into the project? I'm always a bit confused by this and have had some bad experiences with projects that looked squashed or stretched.
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Iphone Video Settings?

Pemier elements has a hard time with my iphone vidieo. If I use the stabilizer the video will not even play. Are there settings to best handle iphone video?

Dixon John
What iPhone version do you have?
I need specific answers to help, and I want to help.
Information such as
There is no setting in project settings for the iphone.
is not going to help me help you. I know what the program has to offer. I need to know how best to apply that to what you have in the way of video properties. And, we will not know that until you share that information with us. If you do not know the properties of your video, we will help you find that information. I suspect it is 1080p (1920 x 1080 @ 29.97 progressive frames per second), but suspect is not good enough as a base for troubleshooting.
You say the Timeline won't render
a. is there an orange or no colored line over the Timeline content?
b. do you have the gray tabs of the Work Area Bar set to span the entire content of what is to be rendered?
What does the Timeline content look like at playback without VideoStabilizer? Does it playback at all? I imagine it should since you are applying a Video Stabilizer to it.
After you apply the VideoStabilizer, are you applying the detaults or customizing the settings for it? If customizing, in what way? The VideoStabilizer probably has the most dramatic affect (increasing) on rendering time for Timeline content to which it is applied. The nature of the clip plus the VideoStabilizer settings may have created this
with stabilizer the video wont play,
I think you get the idea of what is involved. Please allow us to help you sort out the details which you have on this and which we need for you to share with us to help you.
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ATR
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IPhone videos & geotagging for places

Do the iPhone videos not get geotagged? When I click on the i on a video shot with the iPhone 3GS the map shows as empty.

I am only speculating here since I don't have an iPhone, but in general you can not automatically geotag videos simply because video files do not have standard EXIF-type tags within which to add information like coordinates.
I suppose Apple could add specifically Apple-only tags to their iPhone generated videos that could also be read by iPhoto, but likely do not because they want to use industry standard formats.
So I think the answer to your question is that video formats do not support tags so no where to store GPS coordinate data.
Regards,
Patrick

Apple's Video Specifications are WRONG!

Well, it seems apple has screwed 3rd party developers with their API used to access the video features on the iPhone. Either that, or they don't want to own up to the fact that the 3G iPhone can't play video files up to the specs on their website (through 3rd party apps).
Check it out - Here are the "supported" video settings for the 3G iPhone:
Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
So, if you render an mp4 file to these EXACT specs, you can play it on your 3G iPhone when imported through iTunes. However, if you try to play this EXACT file through the dropbox app, you get an error message.
THE 3G IPHONE CAN'T PLAY IT BUT THE 3GS IPHONE CAN!!!
Anyone else run into this or am I the only one?
I feel like apple should address this and list out supported video rendering specs for the 3G when played back through a 3rd pary app that has to get pwnd by using the API.

The Samsung integrated unit in 3GS is actually capable of doing much more than officially allowed. The reason Apple limited its performance is to conserve battery, i.e. while it's capable of playing 1080p, it wouldn't make any sense on such a small display and would just waste battery life. It can even do HD capture, but iPhone's camera is not good enough for that.
Now, I'm not sure if I exactly get what you mean. Does third party video playback API not support same formats as Apple's own playback?
Was this limited to Dropbox? Dropbox does some little things to your files, for example it drops the EXIF data from images to save space.
You also drop a line about 3G and 3GS, how is that related?

Pre Lion iPhone videos show Thumbnail but can't play - new video generates Unsupported Video Format popup, no thumb but will play via quicktime

This is really frustrating -
Over the last year I have been uploading all of my photos and occasional iPhone video to Aperture 3 (latest version all patches in place).    Aperture would recognize the video, create a thumbnale and otherwise treat it nicely.
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From Final Cut Pro X, I can imoprt this exported video file and see that it appears complete - but FCPX uses it's own playback elements.
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I spent 2.5 hours of quality time with the Genius bar this morning. We reinstalled Lion and after that the suggestion was to trash and re-install Aperture, but that would require my disc and of coruse a trip home.   Mail doesn't seem to still have the issues with iPhone movies that it had - but Aperture is still not happy.
Did as instructed and dragged Aperture 3 to the trash, did the empty trash option, restarted and reinstalled.   Then did a software update to catch the new update for Aperture and it found that.   Interestingly when I did start it up after that it DID NOT ask me for my key - so clearly some elements were left over.
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For some reason it just started to work now. Have no idea what didn't work before.

I want to automatically extract my iphone-videos from the iPhoto library since I have way over 25 000 objects in there. Afterwards I would like to import them into iMovie. Anyone having an idea?

Dear all,
I want to automatically extract my iphone-videos from the iPhoto library since I have way over 25 000 objects in there. Afterwards I would like to import them into iMovie. Anyone having an idea? Or is there no possibility to do so?
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What's the best way to import and manage iPhone video?

I don't really want to use iPhoto for importing video - it doesn't seem like it's built with that in mind even though it's the default option for importing both photos and videos. It doesn't have very good (if any) options for filtering just videos or just photos, either when viewing or importing. And I don't want to have videos all jumbled in with photos in my iPhoto library.
I also don't really want to use iMovie every time I want to import videos. I know it's designed for video, but it's far more of an editing app than a management app and I don't want to be editing all my videos or loading up iMovie just to browse them.
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That's exactly the sort of crafty workaround I like. I didn't know they were all tagged, but that would definitely work. I'd still love a dedicated app that did it really well, or more love given to that side of things in iPhoto. iMovie is too hefty for just managing them.
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How can you get your iPhone videos to compress to one video instead of 5 different frames?

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How do I convert my iphone videos (.mov) to .flv files?

How do I convert my iphone video (.mov) to .flv files?

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IPhone video H.264 will not play in iPhoto '11 Slideshow

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IPhone video upside down in FF4

When I put landscape iphone video to my .mac gallery is it upside down.
Looks fine in chrome and safari and imovie.
I checked the web.
Some folks say that I should have taken the landscape video with the home button on the right (I did not).
Others say the problem is the quicktime plug in in FF4.
Does anyone know for sure?
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In response to Rudegar, I already checked my original movie in different browsers:
See where I said:
"Looks fine in chrome and safari and imovie."
In any case, I did what I should have done before.
I now made two very short movies, one with the home button on the right, one on the left.
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