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How to Submit a Video Podcast Into iTunes 4.9

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How to Submit a Video Podcast Into iTunes 4.9
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After you've created your video podcast, and you are ready to display it to the world, you have to think about placement. You probably want to create a website and RSS feed, but in addition to that, iTunes 4.9 would be a helpful place to check it into, because it supports local and streaming video and would provide access to a lot of potential viewers.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • web server
  • website for hosting XML file
  • Quicktime Pro 7 (or something that will encode video)
  • a completed video podcast
  1. Step 1

    The first step is to compress your video. Open up Quicktime Pro 7, export your file and save it as an MPEG 4 file in H.264 format. Click the Streaming tab and enable the Enable Streaming option.

  2. Step 2

    Put the file onto your server.

  3. Step 3

    Create an XML file. To create an XML file, take this text and personalize it with your own video file.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
    <channel>
    <title>Vodcast's Title Here</title>
    <itunes:author>Your Name Here</itunes:author>
    <link>http://www.sitename.com</link>
    <description>A description of your vodcast's channel</description>
    <itunes:subtitle>A subtitle for your vodcast's channel</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:summary>A summary of your vodcast channel</itunes:summary>
    <language>EN</language>
    <copyright>(c) 2005 Your Name</copyright>
    <itunes:owner>
    <itunes:name>Your Name</itunes:name>
    <itunes:email>youremail@example.com</itunes:email>
    </itunes:owner>
    <category>Technology</category>
    <itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category>
    <item>
    <title>Your Movie Title</title>
    <itunes:author>Your Name</itunes:author>
    <description>A description of this movie</description>
    <itunes:subtitle>A subtitle about this movie</itunes:subtitle>
    <itunes:summary>A summary of your movie</itunes:summary>
    <enclosure url="http://www.yoursitename.com/moviename.mp4" length="1024" type="video/mov" />
    <guid>http://www.yoursitename.com/moviename.mp4</guid>
    <pubDate>Tues, 25 July 2005 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit>
    <itunes:duration>00:01:35</itunes:duration>
    <itunes:keywords>keyword1, keyword2, keyword3</itunes:keywords>
    </item>
    </channel>
    </rss>

  4. Step 4

    Replace YourMovieTitle with the title of your video file.

  5. Step 5

    Replace itunes:duration with the length of your file, in hour:minutes:second format.

  6. Step 6

    Add keywords to make it more easily searchable on the web.

  7. Step 7

    Save the file with the .xml extension (yourpodcastname.xml) and put it on your server in the same directory as your video file.

  8. Step 8

    Test it in your browser to make sure it works.
    http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourpodcastname.xml

  9. Step 9

    Check it into iTunes 4.9, by going to the Advance Menu and clicking on Subscribe to Podcast. Enter in the URL (http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourpodcastname.xml) and click OK.
    If it works, it's ready to share.

Tips & Warnings
  • To save space while you're exporting the video, you can alter your audio settings. Click on the Audio Tab, make sure that AAC-LC (Music) is selected and choose 48 kbps for your data rate. To save more space, choose Mono from the Channels pop-up menu and an output sample rate of 32.000 kHz.
  • If you don't have a web server but you have a Mac, you can use your iDisk.
  • Video podcasts take up a lot of bandwidth. Plan it out so you are prepared and can fund the project before you start.

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