How to Add Movies to an iPod Touch

The iPod Touch plays music files, like the traditional iPod, but it also plays video files and has a touch screen for navigation. The iPod Touch also features built-in Wi-Fi that allows the user to surf the web, check e-mail, or buy new music on iTunes. If you have movies on your computer that you want to be able to watch on your iPod Touch, you can add those movies yourself. It is easy to add movies to an iPod Touch and does not take any extra software other than iTunes.

Things You'll Need

• iPod Touch
• Movie files
• Computer
• iPod USB computer cable

Instructions

1. Connect your iPod Touch to your computer with the USB computer cable that came packaged with the iPod touch. Replacement cables can be purchased from Apple.

2. Open iTunes on your computer. If you do not have iTunes, it can be downloaded for free from the Apple website (see Resources).

3. Look on the left side of the iTunes screen in the panel for "Library." Movie files should be under "Movies and TV Shows."

4. Locate the movie files that you want to add to the iPod Touch. Click on the movie file and drag and drop it to the iPod Touch, which is listed under "Devices" in the panel.

Tips & Warnings

• Movie files not in the iTunes library must first be moved into the library by dragging and dropping before they can be added to the iPod Touch.

• Movies must be in MP4 or MPEG format to work on the iPod Touch.

References

• iPod Touch: Add Videos

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• iTunes
• iPod Touch user guide