How-To: Convert and crop WMV files for playback on iPod Video [Windows]
Hat tip to Justin for taking the time to create a step-by-step Wink video tutorial for converting and cropping WMV files for playback on the 5th Generation iPods. While most users who download WMV files are content converting the videos as-is, others may be interested in maximizing their iPod screen real estate by cropping the unnecessary black video frames.
Before proceeding to the video tutorial, you’ll want to make sure you have the following software at hand [all free of course]:
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8 Comments, Comment or Trackback
fernyb
Good Tutorial, because its video! :-)
it makes me wish I has windows, not! lol :-)
Is this the first video tutorial on uneasy?
Jan 15th, 2006
Derek
nope. we’ve used wink for a number of tutorials including our previous itunes music store tutorials. wink is a great tool for windows users interested in creating presentations. search for wink on the site, you’ll find it referenced a number of times.
Jan 15th, 2006
Justin
fernyb, I would picture you just using iMovie or QTSync, which is a load easier :P
Jan 15th, 2006
Justin
BTW, the goal of this was to outsmart iTMS and prove you could do it for free and in better quality (H.264) than iTunes’s MPEG-4s. A biproduct of that was having fullscreen content on your ipod. Hey did you also know that you could download Music Video Cover Art with the iTMS script here too? ;)
Jan 15th, 2006
Sam
Derek, I saw the post “Voyerific: Send mail to anyone from Anyone”, but now the link is not working anymore? Do you know why? I haven’t send my friend a fake email yet. Please help me.
Jan 16th, 2006
Justin
btw, just found out by someone that videora doesn’t work with this. It only captures sound. As a free alternative, use 3GP_Converter.
Feb 4th, 2006
Name
bummer how ur re-encoding 3 times here - arent u spitting on the quality? nero recode can crop and goto mp4 in one cycle - but i guess fair enough you cant do baseline h264 in recode
Feb 18th, 2006
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