Encoding video for iPod touch

[sswingle]

Ok, so I am trying to encode video's for the iPod touch in Premiere Pro. I'm using h.264, keeping the bitrate below 1.5 mpbs, profile 3, resolution within the limits of the ipod screen, and iTunes keeps telling me the video is incompatible.

My workaround at this point is to encode into MPEG2, and then convert it again in Handbrake. I would like to cut out this step if at all possible. Anyone know of settings in Premiere that will make iTunes happy?

 

[Koing]

Sorry buddy no help but a ^ for you.

I use iMovie08 which does it and the results look good enough for me. But the GASH thing is you CAN'T BATCH ENCODE PROJECTS?! WTF!!!

The 'hack' is you can login as another user and as long as your projects folder is shared youc an startup another iMovie and then encode another project. SO budget you can't encode more then one project at a time 🙁

Koing

 

[Parasitic]

Try without H.264? Whenever I convert videos to mp4 for my iPhone with VisualHub I had to do it without h.264 or else they won't play.

 

[sswingle]

Tried MPEG4, but premiere doesn't allow much in the way of settings in that format for some reason. It limits me to 3GPP 352x288 or 3GPP 176x144 and a 384 Kbps bitrate.

 

[mc866]

Check out Fairuse Wizard, the non-free version has a Ipod profile, I haven't tried it yet but the zune profile worked great.

 

[sswingle]

I'm not going to go out and buy software to be a middle man. I have this for free with Handbrake.

 

[dphuff]

I seem to remember Handbrake having some presets for the iPod Touch/iPhone. Here's a good HOW-TO for Handbrake:

http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-use-handbrake

 

[sswingle]

Jesus H Christ people, I can use Handbrake just fine. I'm looking for a way to encode the video directly in friggin premiere.

 

[sjwaste]

Originally posted by: sswingle
Jesus H Christ people, I can use Handbrake just fine. I'm looking for a way to encode the video directly in friggin premiere.

Uh, then contact Adobe support. You ostensibly paid for the product, so they should be happy to help. Don't chew out other people here that have suggested an acceptable alternative.

 

[TheStu]

Is this is on OS X or Windows? If OS X, then you can open the file in Quicktime and hit CMD+I to get info regarding the bitrate, filetype, all that. Then you can just tailor your Premiere files to match.

It also might have to do with file extensions.

 

[bobdole369]

Ok, so I am trying to encode video's for the iPod touch in Premiere Pro.

There is your problem.

Whats mediainfo32 tell you about the resulting file from Premiere?

Compare it to a handbrake encoded file, see whats different.

Willing to bet its some deep h.264 BS, like CABAC vs. CAVLC (no clue honestly what either one of those is, but one kind of file works for me, and the other never has). <shrugs>

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: sswingle
Jesus H Christ people, I can use Handbrake just fine. I'm looking for a way to encode the video directly in friggin premiere.

Uh, then contact Adobe support. You ostensibly paid for the product, so they should be happy to help. Don't chew out other people here that have suggested an acceptable alternative.

I just figured that everything was supposedly so easy with apple products, that you it shouldn't be too hard to setup a media encoder to create a file the ipod would actually play.

If people read the OP, they would see that I already can use handbrake, so why suggest something that I said I am already using as a work around? If no one knows how to setup Premiere, then fine. No big deal. I just figured it would make more sense than encoding everything twice.

 

[dwell]

Was that so hard?

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: sswingle

Originally posted by: sjwaste

Originally posted by: sswingle
Jesus H Christ people, I can use Handbrake just fine. I'm looking for a way to encode the video directly in friggin premiere.

Uh, then contact Adobe support. You ostensibly paid for the product, so they should be happy to help. Don't chew out other people here that have suggested an acceptable alternative.

I just figured that everything was supposedly so easy with apple products, that you it shouldn't be too hard to setup a media encoder to create a file the ipod would actually play.

If people read the OP, they would see that I already can use handbrake, so why suggest something that I said I am already using as a work around? If no one knows how to setup Premiere, then fine. No big deal. I just figured it would make more sense than encoding everything twice.

Don't blame apple products for the software's problem, or your inability to use the software properly. If handbrake does things properly then you know the device isn't the issue.

 

[mmntech]

I don't know what the OP is doing wrong but it works fine for me. I loaded up some video files in Premier Pro and encoded them using the iPod H.264 presets in Adobe Media Encoder. Loaded it onto my iPhone and it played no problem. Could be that your source files aren't agreeing with the encoder.