Install software: iPod Video Converter 4.0 (Also for Apple TV)
Estimated Time of Completion: 3 minutes

Apple iPod fans can find various videos on YouTube, Google, MSN and almost all popular video sites. There are entertainment videos, jokes, music videos, move clips, behind-the-scene stories, etc. When finding what you want, you can use free video download tools to capture videos, such as a completely free plug-in --- Web Video Downloader for Firefox, which works great and easy to handle.

Select "Add Files" from File in the Menu or directly click button "Add Files" on the Toolbar, and then a dialog pops up for choosing video and audio files to the program. It supports adding more than one file at one time.

The video and audio files added in will be listed in Details mode or Thumbnails mode. If you want to delete some files, just select it and click button "Remove". You may also click button "Move Up" or "Move Down" to change the files' converting order.

If you would like to convert only a part of the video/audio file, you may use Trim function.

If you just want to convert a part of video content, you may realize it with Trim function:

Select the video you have added into the program, go to "Edit" - > "Trim" function, and then you can decide which part to be converted by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.

As the picture showing above, drag the left triangle to a position you want it be the start of the converted video and drag the right triangle to a position you want it be the end of the converted file. Then the video will be trimmed before being converted.

It is also working for audio files.

Go to Settings panel and set target output format. There are various pre-set profiles for all the iPod/iPhone and Apple TV devices' needs. Click the profile combo box and select a profile from the pop-up list.

For example, when you want to convert a video to Apple TV supported format, just select "MPEG-4 Video for Apple TV (...)" under "Apple TV Video (*.mp4)".

After selecting target profile, the settings of the output video/audio are automatically specified basing on that profile. If you would like to set some video/audio properties for even better quality or other special needs, you may change and re-set the other settings by yourself.

Other Properties Setting

Go to Settings panel to do some general setting.

Click the arrow and select video dimension, zoom mode, video quality and audio quality from the drop down list. If you would like to do some advanced settings, like bit rate and channel, you may go to Advanced Settings panel.

After setting what to be converted, which part to be converted and what result should be, it needs to set where to save the converted result before conversion.

Set Output Folder

Go to Output panel at the bottom of the interface. Click button "Browse" to set the direction of output folder, which is created to save the video and audio output files.

When the conversion is completed, users may click button "Open" to find the output files in the output folder.

For more details about output setting, please go to Output Folder >>

Sothink iPod Video Converter supports multiple CPUs and multiple core CPUs, and supports concurrent conversion for multiple videos and audios. So if there is more than one CPU core, you may choose the maximum number of CPU cores in "Options" dialog and get all the files converted concurrently with high speed.

When all the settings are all right, it's time to convert. Just click "Convert" button in the Toolbar.

It's OK to pause or stop the conversion progress if needed. When the task is finished, it will play a sound, which can be set in "Options" dialog, too.