Enjoy watching videos on your iPod, iTouch or iPhone? iTunes store is a great place to purchase videos, but what about getting your own home movies on your iPhone?
If your home movies are already in digital format, you’ve got a head start. Many of us though still have our precious memories stored in VHS tapes, Hi8 tapes, miniDV, or heaven forbid, in 8mm or 16mm film reels. If so, your first step is to digitize them into digital video. Video transfer service providers now offer video tape transfer to hard drive, not just DVDs. Go for the hard drive option. Once your videos are on the hard drive, you can convert them to iPod-friendly format. By that, I mean MP4 format. Then simply upload your MP4 videos into iTunes.
Transferring your video tapes to digital video is easy, just bring it to a video transfer service provider. The trickier part is converting your digital video into MP4 format.
There are a number of sites and software that allow you to convert just about any digital video format to MP4 format required by Apple devices.
The one we recommend to our clients is the free Videora ipod converter. The steps may seem daunting to you if you consider yourself techno-phobic, but you only have to figure it out once. The 2nd, 3rd time will be a breeze.
To help take the fear away, we’ve created a video tutorial on how to convert your videos into iPod, iTouch or iPhone MP4 format. Click the link below and watch the easy step-by-step process:
http://simplevideoediting.com/howto/share_ipod
You’ve got your kids pictures on your iPhone, why not their videos as well. Good luck!
