How to Add Movies to iTunes

Series Summary

Forget turntables, compact disc players, even the radio, iTunes is the way people listen to music these days, either on their computers or on their iPods. This program was developed by Apple Computers and first introduced to the public in January of 2001. Initially designed to organize digital and video files, it now offers a vast array of options, including games, podcasts, ringtones, audiobooks and even feature-length films. The application is available for free download on Apple's website, for Mac as well as Windows operating systems. In this free video series, learn how to install and operate iTunes software. Jame Flint has been working with computers professionally for more than 10 years. He takes the time to demonstrate the iTunes software. Discover how to add movies and new videos to iTunes. Also, create an iTunes playlist by adding songs. Don't want to loose an iTunes library? Flint demonstrates how to backup an iTunes library to a DVD. Learn how to transfer an iTunes library to another computer. In addition, find out how to use iTunes with an MP3 player. So, jump on the bandwagon, and learn how to operate iTunes software today!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is James Flint. Today we're going to talk about how to add a movie into iTunes. It's important to know how to do this so that you can both watch movies on your computer through iTunes, and so you can install movies onto your iPod and watch them on the go. So, let's launch iTunes and take a look. I've got a movie on my desktop called Downtown Movie. It's an M4V file. What we're going to do is we're going to go into iTunes, go up to our files panel, and go down to import. From here, you navigate around and find your file. Mine is on the desktop so I'll click there. Downtown Movie, I'll select that and hit choose. As you can see, iTunes is copying it, and it seems to be done. So I'm going to look in my movies folder, and there's my new movie, Downtown Movie. So you can double click on it and it'll start to play. If you want you can go to your view option and enter full screen, it's a good way to watch movies, that way you don't see many of the other things on the desktop. And it's a pretty simple step, but now you know how to add movies into your iTunes."