Automator action: Export movies to iTunes/iPod

Since the 5G iPod landed, an army of scripts and mini-apps have answered the call for a simple, painless way for getting video into iTunes and ready for your favorite little music video player. Since I'm always up for more options, here's an Automator action that accomplishes the same task for Tiger users. You can select a group of files, run the action (it's meant to be installed as a Finder plugin), and it will use QuickTime to export the video and add it right into iTunes for you.

While I haven't tested this out yet, I'm excited about being able to do with with an Automator action as it opens up the possibility of adding more steps to your workflow, such as batch renaming files, or anything else Automator can do. Plus, just like one of the reigning favorites - iSquint - the Export Movies to iTunes action is free.

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Berko

Any method (including the built-in conversion in iTunes) that uses Quicktime, whether Pro or not, is slower than frozen molasses. Forty-twoDVDVXPlus is a good program if you are an experienced user, but do not expect any help from the developers. There were forum posts unanswered for months. Then, they finally released v. 3.0 just recently. Anyway, use iSquint or some other program that doesn't use Quicktime.

January 19 2006 at 9:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adrian

Anybody know how this method (and/or iSquint et. al) compare to the new ability to convert to iPod-compatible video within iTunes itself (under Advanced menu)?

January 18 2006 at 5:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply