Videos from 5g ipod nano to apple tv

Question

I have taken some videos from my 5th gen. ipod nano. They were uploaded into iphoto. In Apple TV I checked the box under the photo tab, which lists the videos; and I sync. But nothing gets gets synced. There is no error message, nothing gets transferred over. How do I get these videos taken with the ipod onto the Apple TV

Answer 1

Video Capture specs for nano:
* H.264 VGA video, 640 by 480 pixels, up to 30 frames per second with AAC audio
* 15 real-time special effects: Sepia, Black and White, X-Ray, Film Grain, Thermal, Security Cam, Cyborg, Bulge, Kaleido, Motion Blur, Mirror, Light Tunnel, Dent, Stretch, and Twirl
* 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
The h264 variants should be fine on AppleTV - need to check on the MPEG-4 - resolution may be a bit high.
http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html
MPEG-4 resolution supported:
MPEG-4: Up to 3 Mbps, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps (maximum resolution: 720 by 432 pixels at 30 fps) in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
So 640x280 might be too big in the vertical direction - give it a shot and let us know.
I assume the different video capture settings are selectable on iPod nano - you will likely get equal quality with h264 with smaller file sizes than plain MPEG-4 (They're all MPEG-4 variants and the nomenclature is confusing).