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If you buy or let movies from the iTunes Store , you ’re already using iTunes as your preferred media organizer and player , specially if iTunes is act as the gateway to an iPod , iPhone , or Apple television receiver . But iTunes is n’t the only source for digital TV — perhaps , for instance , you want to make your DVD aggregation useable on your Apple TV . Although several utilities are useable to pull a videodisc to a file on your hard disk , iTunes is picky about the configurations involve to play on the many devices it syncs with .
In plus to converting movie files to iTunes - well-disposed formats , VideoDrive can import useful metadata from the Web .
Aroona’sVideoDriveaims to make those conversion comfortable . Acting as a well-disposed middleman between your video files and iTunes , it encodes videos using QuickTime ( and , optionally , El Gato ’s Turbo.264 hardware equipment and package for faster carrying out ) , pull metadata from IMDB.com over the vane , and hands the formatted file to iTunes . If you havePerianandFlip4Macinstalled , VideoDrive can also convert intimately any video recording formatting for role with Apple devices .
In addition to converting movie files to iTunes-friendly formats, VideoDrive can import useful metadata from the Web.
If you have a lot of video to process , you may drag them to a Hot Folder in the Finder that automatically adds them to VideoDrive ’s import waiting line ; from there , only pick out how you desire the single file add to iTunes . I did n’t run into any serious problem using the software ; the singultus that did occur were due to other applications VideoDrive relies on ( such as Turbo.264 ) catch pay heed up on a dialog corner , or observe that a data file I was converting already existed in the finish folder . VideoDrive does an admirable job of making picture importation easy .
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[ Jeff Carlsonis the author of the forthcomingiMovie ‘ 09 & iDVD : Visual QuickStart Guide(Peachpit Press ) . ]
