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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 Difficulty: Moderately Easy Things You'll Need web server website for hosting XML file Quicktime Pro 7 (or something that will encode video) a completed video podcast Steps 1 Step One  Click to enlarge 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 Step Two Put the file onto your server. 3 Step Three Create an XML file. To create an XML file, take this text and personalize it with your own video file. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Vodcast's Title Here</title> <itunes:author>Your Name Here</itunes:author> <link>http://www.sitename.com</link> <description>A description of your vodcast's channel</description> <itunes:subtitle>A subtitle for your vodcast's channel</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>A summary of your vodcast channel</itunes:summary> <language>EN</language> <copyright>(c) 2005 Your Name</copyright> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name>Your Name</itunes:name> <itunes:email>youremail@example.com</itunes:email> </itunes:owner> <category>Technology</category> <itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category> <item> <title>Your Movie Title</title> <itunes:author>Your Name</itunes:author> <description>A description of this movie</description> <itunes:subtitle>A subtitle about this movie</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>A summary of your movie</itunes:summary> <enclosure url="http://www.yoursitename.com/moviename.mp4" length="1024" type="video/mov" /> <guid>http://www.yoursitename.com/moviename.mp4</guid> <pubDate>Tues, 25 July 2005 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit> <itunes:duration>00:01:35</itunes:duration> <itunes:keywords>keyword1, keyword2, keyword3</itunes:keywords> </item> </channel> </rss> 4 Step Four Replace YourMovieTitle with the title of your video file. 5 Step Five Replace itunes:duration with the length of your file, in hour:minutes:second format. 6 Step Six Add keywords to make it more easily searchable on the web. 7 Step Seven Save the file with the .xml extension (yourpodcastname.xml) and put it on your server in the same directory as your video file. 8 Step Eight Test it in your browser to make sure it works. http://www.yourwebsite.com/yourpodcastname.xml 9 Step Nine  Click to enlarge 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.