How to convert movies to iPod video?

As being one of the best portable video and audio players in the world, Video iPod liberates you from chains of watching movies on a portable DVD player with lots of DVD discs bringing out. There are various MPEG-4 video and audio formats and others supported playing in the video iPod and new Video iPod(30G and 80G), for instance, it supports playing video formats such as H.264 video, M4V, MP4, MOV with AAC-LC audio and stereo audio, and audio formats including AAC, MP3, Audible (formats 2, 3 and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, AIFF. The next question is how to convert movies and music to Video iPod?

ImTOO iPod Movie Converter is a good choice. It can convert movie and music files in different formats among MPEG , WMV , AVI , RM , 3GP, WMA, OGG, WAV etc. to iPod video formats (MP4, MOV) and audio formats (M4A, MP3). As iPod converter software, all conversion processes are very easy and fast with high quality. It offers two working modes: the Advanced Mode with variable settings for you to customize, while the Wizard Mode showing you the whole conversion. Now follow the instruction...

below to guide you how to convert movies to iPod video and put the movie and music on your Video iPod in the Advanced Mode step-by-step:
How to convert movies to iPod video:

• If you don't have ImTOO iPodMovie Converter buy him and install.
• Run ImTOO iPod Movie Converter first, load the audio or video files by clicking "Add" button in the main interface or choose "Add" in the File menu.
• Click to highlight the loaded file and select output format from "Encode" combo-box. For example, to get .M4A file, you should select "M4A MPEG-4 Audio (*.m4a)"; wanna convert movies to Video iPod(60G), you are supposed to select "iPod(60G) MPEG-4 Video - Excellent Quality (*.mp4)".
• Click "Browse…" button to select a folder or enter the direct file path in the "Destination" form to decide where to save the output file. The default path is "C:\temp" if nothing typed.
• Finally, press "Encode" button to start converting.
• It will display "Completed" under the "Status" column if the conversion has been brought to success.

How to put and transfer movies to your Video iPod:

• Please click "Open" button after the conversion's done.
• Find the converted file in the destination folder and put it to your iTunes.
• Drag the file into the iPod logo of the iTunes and then release the mouse when there is a "†" sign around the cursor. The file would be transferred to Video iPod automatically.

Tips:

• You can browse the file information on the pop-up box by clicking "View"⇒"Show File Information" buttons in the main menu.
• While the loaded file's highlighting, you may adjust parameters of the output file, e.g. "Start Time", "Video Size", "Video/Audio Bitrate", etc. in the right column.
• If you want to convert a RM/RA file to the formats supported by Video iPod, you are supposed to add it on the way by clicking "Add Directshow files…" in the "File" menu. The way provides better quality of the RM/RA file decoding.