iPod Movie Conversion in Three Easy Minutes — Watch Any Video on Your iPod!

If you’re like many new Video iPod owners, you are excited about the idea of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go. The notion of being able to watch a movie while you’re sitting in the airport, riding on the subway or just hanging out is pretty darn cool. That’s why so many people rushed out to buy the Video iPod when Apple first launched it in October of 2005.

The problem is that it’s not so easy to transfer your existing movie collection over to your iPod when you first get it. Apple didn’t include any software with the iPod to rip your movies onto your Video iPod. If you want to watch something on your Video iPod when you first get it, you better either have a mpeg-4 file on your computer (some video cameras and camera phones will save videos in this format) or you will need to download a video from iTunes or some other iPod Video website. Not exactly what you had in mind when you bought your new Video iPod, huh?

Don’t worry; there are many solutions out there to assist you with transferring your existing movie collection to your iPod Video player.

In this article, we’re going to discuss different software products out there available to help you convert your existing movies to play on your Video iPod. A few of the more popular iPod Video converter software titles are produced by companies such as Lenogo, Cucusoft, Xilisoft and others.

To accomplish your task of converting your movies to play on your iPod, you’ll need to first download software from one of the companies we mentioned in the previous paragraph. For our example here, we’re going to go with Lenogo’s iPod Video Converter Suite. Here are the steps we took to convert a movie to iPod format in about three minutes:

1. We opened up Lenogo iPod Video Converter Suite on our computer and chose the video file we wanted to convert from our computer.

2. We clicked the “convert” button.

3. We saved the new file, which is in the iPod Video format called mpeg-4.

4. We used iTunes to upload our new video file to our iPod Video.

That’s it! It was really that simple. Of course, this process is different depending on which software title you choose to download. Some take a bit longer than others. Most, however, only take a few minutes to choose the video file you intend to convert and then run the program. Once you’re finished, you’ll be able to achieve your goal of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go!