What video format will iTunes accept?

I want to add some videos to my music video library. What format will iTunes accept and play? I am not concerned about playing them on an iPod so I would like a little better resolution than the standard for the iPod. Help!!!

Perhaps this will provide the information you need:
Adding, Browsing, and watching videos in iTunes
Hope it helps.

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HT1211 what video formats can itunes import

what video formats can itunes import

Basic forum etiquette, search before posting. Of course a simple google search would have easily revealed the information as well.

What video formats will work on the latest ios version using the camera kit

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Pad2, the new iPad Supported Video Formats & Movie Formats
H.264 video up to 1080p, 30 frames per second, High Profile level 4.1 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 per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format
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What video format does Aperture accept?

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I found out .mov works. Used iMovie to import AVCHD from my SR11. Anyone else use a different format?

What Video Formats will iDVD5 import?

Apple's website is not very clear on this.
Will it import anything other than DV?
Will it import all QT codecs? MPEG2?
Thanks for any help,
Ross
P.S. My search here did not find it either.

I'm late to this thread - so maybe this is for Those Who Come After.. - but, I found this all a bit hard to follow & still can't figure out why Sheila's buying Toast (a great but not cheap product) to make DVDs with all the 'fancy bits' when she already has a superb, free product that does precisely that.... iDVD. (Compared to most of the other software I've used to do this stuff iDVD is so User-Friendly I've taken it home to meet Mother ..
In a general answer to the original question - and related -, (HDVid,pics/extras aside)
b all the iDVD/ iMovie products were designed to take Digital Video,, i.e. DV from a compatible DV Cam (or precisely-formatted DV files which came from DV from a compatible DV Cam...) work with it and produce various output or Delivery products (whatever else the Docs etc. may suggest).
Ignoring pictures, iDVD takes in DV, allows extensive easy user customisation and produces DVDs after 'hidden' transcoding To MPEG-2 and creating the full DVD structure itself. (you could start from lots of other formats, transcode to a DV file and use iDVD from there but the results will likely range from bad to unviewable - if your Dad sends you an MPEG2 file, that's what you'll have to do to use iDVD - and chances of the transcoding screwing up are high - in my experience of the huge variations in file format/quality/bug level etc on PC-encoded MPEGs).
Best approach for iMov/iDVD (or almost anything else...is as suggested by our friend above):- have him send you a DV Tape copy, access a cam for a couple of hours and use iMovie to Capture as a DV file and proceed from there .... as you encounter the inevitable roadbumps (buy some DVD-RW.. you'll always have the original, full, highest-quality DV to go back to.
Toast (and DVDSP & other DVD creator/author tools) require solid, standards-compliant MPEG-2 as input (but I refer you to my comments above). There are a number of tools that'll do the DV->MPEG2 transcode on the Mac. They vary in quality, speed, price...... (you can't easily use the 'hidden' iDVD stuff last time I looked...).
To put it less technically, e.g. Mpeg-1 is mostly pretty small and pretty poor quality. "Enlarging' it in transcoding to DV is just going to give you a LARGE, bad-quality picture... - [an extreme example, but transcoding UP or 'across' - in 'quality' - is always bad. Transcoding DOWN from hi-quality DV to MPEG-2 for Delivery on DVD (e.g.) can be quite good - which is why you always try to do it ONCE and do it last.
[Perhaps it's not obvious to people, but most of these formats 'throw away' huge amounts of data/picture information: 2hr DV is about 30Gig... Transcoded to MPEG2, it may be 4. That's 26Gig worth of picture info that just isn't there anymore....]
For anyone working with this stuff, I recommend some Googling for info/tutes and FAAQs on Capture, editing and Delivery CODECs (CODECCentral used to be one....)
b 1 line summary: wherever possible, start with hi quality DV (or better), edit/play about in that, last, transcode to Deliver in whatever suits.
Best wishes.....

What video formats does Final Cut Express support?

I have Final Cut Express HD 3.5. What video formats are compatible with this program? Also, what frame rate and aspect ratio do my videos have to be in for Express to accept the video file?

Good of you to have read the manual. It helps us answer the question now that you've included that information.
Your material must be converted to either DV, HDV or AIC (FCE Native formats). As you have discovered, while FCE will accept a number of non-standard or native formats, it will not play happily with them.
DV and HDV are anamorphic formats. That is, they use non-square pixels. Standard DV is 720x480 (a 3:2 ratio) that FCE will do the conversion magic and have is display in a 4:3 format. Widescreen DV (aka 16:9) is ALSO 720x480 but the narrow dimension of the pixel is oriented the other way. When you tell FCE that the file is 16:9 anamorphic, it will do the magic and display the material properly. If you do not, it will display as though it is standard definition 4:3 and the people will be much skinnier but not taller.
HDV is 1440x720 but displays in 16:9.
AIC can be 1280x720 or 1980x1080.
All other dimensions are not supported and you may have very unreliable results when using them. This very limited abiltiy to deal with more than a couple of formats was one of the main differentiation points between Express and Final Cut Pro. There were a great number of other differences but this was one of the biggest limitations for most consumer level users.
If you want to edit a lot of non-standard, non-native formats, look into Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro is within the editing paradigm of Final Cut Pro/Express. Final Cut Pro X has gone in a different direction which involves a new learning curve. Don't be fooled by the name, it is a very different animal than Express.
x

What files formats does Itunes support

what files formats does Itunes support???
Been trying to load some anime into Itunes and they wont play on my Apple Tv, though they play on the computer. Why is that. I've got codes and all that other jazz. What gives....

iTunes 11 can currently read, write and convert between MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and Apple Lossless (.m4a).
iTunes can also play any audio files that QuickTime can play (as well as some video formats), including Protected AAC files from the iTunes Store and Audible.com audio books. There is limited support for Vorbis and FLAC enclosed in an Ogg container (files using the Ogg container format are not natively supported) or Speex codecs with the Xiph QuickTime Components. Because tag editing and album art is done within iTunes and not QuickTime, these features will not work with these QuickTime components. As of Snow Leopard, iTunes 9 (Mac) will play HE-AAC / AAC+ internet streams. The latest version of iTunes (Win/Mac) supports importing audio CDs with the default iTunes standard file format of AAC at 256 kbit/s, but users can choose from 16 kbit/s to 320 kbit/s constant bit rates (CBR) in either AAC or MP3.[citation needed] Importing of audio CDs into MP3 or AAC formats can also be accomplished using variable bitrate (VBR) encoding.
The Windows version of iTunes can automatically transcode DRM-free WMA (including version 9) files to other audio formats, but does not support playback of WMA files and will not transcode DRM protected WMA files. Telestream, Inc. provides free codecs for Mac users of QuickTime to enable playback of unprotected Windows Media files. These codecs are recommended by Microsoft.[34]
In addition to importing CDs into the iTunes library, the user can also import non-Apple mp3 files from Amazon.com and other sources. This can be accomplished by either right clicking on the file, selecting open with, and then selecting iTunes or dragging the file into the open iTunes window. Alternatively, for Amazon.com mp3s, the Amazon MP3 Downloader application will automatically import the mp3 files into the iTunes library.

What video format is best for video quality?

Would anyone care to comment on what video format is recommended to achieve the best video quality in Encore when burning to a 25 GB Blu-ray disc? I have the choice of saving my HD video that will be imported into Premier Pro CS4 (and then sent to Encore CS4) in .mp4, .mt2s or .ts and I'm not sure which one will give me the best results. Thanks in advance for the insight!
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does that mean that one is not necessarily "better" than the other?
That is correct.
Now, some feel that with the MP4 H.264 that there are differences between the Apple, the Lead and the MainConcept H.264. Each supplier has a "camp of followers."
Hunt

What video format do I send a client in France?

What video format do I send a client in France?

Sorry I thought you were wasting mine.
Let's start again. If you're sending the client a digital file for use on a computer, it doesn't matter what you send him/her as long as the format can be played back and the client has the codec. It doesn't matter a jot whether they're in France or Brazil or Japan. If you're sending them a videotape, it needs to be at 25fps. If it's standard defintion it needs to be PAL. If it's a DVD it doesn't matter as any DVD player sold in Europe made in the last 10 years will playback either NTSC or PAL. If it's HD maybe they want Blu-ray, in which case it doesn't matter either as Blu-ray players will play any Blu-ray supported frame rate and there is no difference in the codec between the US or Europe.
I can go on, but it would be easier if you said what you had and what they wanted.

What video formats are compatible in DVDSP??

I have DVD Studio Pro 4 and I need to know what video formats are compatible in the program? I made an .m2v file but its too large to fit even on a DL DVD so I need to drop the .m2v file into Mpegstreamclip and convert it to something else and decrease the size so then I can drop it back into DVDSP and burn it. Any help with this? What are formats supported in DVDSP? Or, is there another way around my problem (too big of a file)?? Thanks!

Can you make the audio AC3? That may put you under.
Also keep in mind that if the 2 hour 2 minute movie is that large in file size, it means it probably was encoded at a high rate which can cause issues (you can try to re-encode the m2v in a couple of ways if needed)
As to the story issues it sounds like you made a story accidently. Take a look here
http://dvdstepbystep.com/layofland.php
In the blue section towards the upper left, you will see the story listed in the track icon - delete the story and you should be good to go

What video formats can iMovie edit?

I was wondering what video formats iMovie can edit? Such as mpeg 2, mpeg 4, etc...
the specific reason I'm asing is that I'm considering having some vhs tapes converted to DVD's, which I'm assuming would convert them to mpeg 2...and was wondering if they would be editable in iMovie?

Hi Vapor_action:
Stop!
Seriously-you will be MUCH better off if you have them convert them to DV tape for import to iMovie. DVD uses a different compression and it is a real pain to get them into iMovie. In fact, it is easier to get the VHS to iMovie than DVD in my opinion.
Sue

After converted, what video formats work w/ ipod?

i down loaded some video's from limewire and put them on itunes. after converting all the videos so they were ipod compadable,the ones that were converted had NO sound and the original unconverted videos had sound.so,what video formats,downloaded from limewire,(ex. mp3, mp4...) work w/ my ipod and itunes after bieng converted so they have sound when i listen/view to them on my ipod.
windows Windows XP

sound.so,what video formats,downloaded from
limewire,(ex. mp3, mp4...) work w/ my ipod and itunes
after bieng converted so they have sound when i
Mp4 is what you need, but honestly, you'd be much better of converting them yourself, as you never know what kind of quality you're going to get when you get them from somebody else, plus, you can make sure the sound is set correctly!

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What video formats Ipod 30GB supports...?

Hi
Recently bought a Ipod 30GB. I am not able to uploead the *.dat video files into Ipod.
Can any one let me know what video formats Ipod 30GB supports...?
Thanks
Murali

hi Murali!
there's some info on that in this document:
Frequently asked questions about viewing and syncing video with iTunes and iPod
that FAQ is actually a bit out of date. as of itunes 6.0.2.23, some files can also be converted by itunes. see:
Verifying iTunes video conversion and iPod video syncing using sample QuickTime files
love, b

HT2729 What video formats (avi, MPEG, MOV, etc.) are "playable" on MacBook without adding some kind of converter? Any? how?

What video formats (avi, mpeg, mov, etc.) are "playable" on MacBook without any video converter? Are there any? How come quick time wont let me play a MPEG? When you google this question, al the answers make me download some converter (VLC, etc.)

What video formats (avi, mpeg, mov, etc.) are "playable" on MacBook without any video converter? Are there any?
Depends on what compressed data is in the AVI, MPEG, or MOV file container. E.g., assuming you are using the QT X v10.2 player listed in your hardware profile, a "muxed" MPEG-2/AC3 MPEG file will probably play correctly but an MPEG-2/MP2 or MPEG-2/PCM MPEG file may be problematic. In a similar manner, a Motion-JPEG/WAV AVI file probably won't play the video but play the audio while a DV audio/video AVI file will probably still play correctly.
How come quick time wont let me play a MPEG?
Agian, it depends on what you mean by an MPEG file here. A "muxed" MPEG-2/AC3 file in an MPEG, MPG, TS, or MOV file container should play correctly while the same data in a VOB file container will neither load nor play. Further, this file is not only playback compatible with the QT X v10.2 player but is now conversion compatible to H.264/AAC MOV files on my system which was a surprise to me. On the other hand, if the MPEG file contains MPEG-2 video muxed with MP2 audio (a common PC compression combination), the file will likely have audio/video sync problems and/or freeze up entirely. However, this latter file plays back correctly and without problem in QT 7 with the Apple QT MPEG-2 playback component installed. (For the moment I assume the new support capabilities, as well as, the latest audio problems here may be associated with the system audio upgrades begun in Lion and completed in Moutain Lion.)
When you google this question, al the answers make me download some converter (VLC, etc.)
QT is in the process of being totally re-written. Unfortunately, the addition of new capabilities comes at the expense of making the "new" QT structure less and less compatible with legacy compression formats and file containers and likely signals the eventual end of QT 7 and its "Pro" capabilities in favor of higher definition, more efficient compression technologies.

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