How to Submit a Video Podcast Into iTunes 4.9

After you've created your video podcast, and you are ready to display it to the world, you have to think about placement. You probably want to create a website and RSS feed, but in addition to that, iTunes 4.9 would be a helpful place to check it into, because it supports local and streaming video and would provide access to a lot of potential viewers.

Instructions

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The first step is to compress your video. Open up Quicktime Pro 7, export your file and save it as an MPEG 4 file in H.264 format. Click the Streaming tab and enable the Enable Streaming option.

2

Put the file onto your server.

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Create an XML file. To create an XML file, take this text and personalize it with your own video file.





Your Name Here
http://www.sitename.com
A description of your vodcast's channel
A subtitle for your vodcast's channel
A summary of your vodcast channel
EN
(c) 2005 Your Name

Your Name
youremail@example.com

Technology



Your Name
A description of this movie
A subtitle about this movie
A summary of your movie

http://www.yoursitename.com/moviename.mp4
Tues, 25 July 2005 10:00:00 GMT
no
00:01:35
keyword1, keyword2, keyword3




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Replace YourMovieTitle with the title of your video file.

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Replace itunes:duration with the length of your file, in hour:minutes:second format.

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Add keywords to make it more easily searchable on the web.

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Save the file with the .xml extension (yourpodcastname.xml) and put it on your server in the same directory as your video file.

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Test it in your browser to make sure it works.
http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourpodcastname.xml

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Check it into iTunes 4.9, by going to the Advance Menu and clicking on Subscribe to Podcast. Enter in the URL (http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourpodcastname.xml) and click OK.
If it works, it's ready to share.