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In this final video in our QuickStart! course on preparing video for the web using Media Encoder and Dreamweaver, we're returning to Adobe Media Encoder and exploring a final scenario. You want your video to be playable on an Apple iPod. Now, in the previous video we explored the option of having a video that's playable on an iPhone or an iPod Touch with a larger screen and support for more video formats. Neither iPod Touches or iPhones or iPods support Flash Video so that's not an option. Let me show you the best and most widely-supported option for preparing your video to play on any Apple iPod. As you can see, I've queued up my QuickTime movie. The format that I'm going to select is H.264. This produces the highest quality, most reliable video for an Apple iPod. From the Presets, the 3GPP presets work with Apple iPods. I've selected one that produces a small video, 176 pixels wide by 144 pixels high at 15 frames per second. This is the minimum program for a video that will play on an Apple iPod. I've set my output file to save this to the folder where I'm saving videos from my website. Let me rename it so I can keep it straight. I'm going to call this Spring and Winter iPod Small Scene and that's the file that I'll save it to. Let's go into the Settings Dialog to examine a feature that we haven't look at yet that will be helpful for previewing this video. The Export Settings are fine from our presets and because we are exporting to a video format that Media Encoder senses at least will be used by iPod viewers, we're being prompted to open this video in Device Central. Now, because of the Adobe Apple tensions that I briefly alluded to in the previous video, there is no way to directly preview a video from Adobe Media Encoder as it will look on an iPod. However, Media Encoder's Device Central roughly simulates how a video will look when it's exported and viewed on an iPod. So we'll leaving all our settings alone including we're checking the Open in Device Central checkbox. I'll click OK and return to the main queue. I'll start the queue and watch the video being exported. This video will be small, small in file size. It will only be about two megabytes, which means that your friend with a two gigabyte iPod will have plenty of room for this video on it. It is being exported in stereo so that whoever's listening to it will get a stereo soundtrack. And as soon as Media Encoder is done encoding this video as an H.264, it will launch Adobe Device Central. Now, in this case you'll notice that Device Central launched this movie with Auto Play set. In the previous video I discussed how if you're preparing a video for an iPod Touch or an iPhone, you might not want Auto Play set. However, for an iPod you definitely do want Auto Play set. You want your friend to open the video and have it just start playing and that's what it's doing. If we scroll over a bit and look at some of the detailed settings, we can see that this video file size ended up being 2.67 megabytes; a bit larger than I anticipated but with stereo sound and again, this here is exactly how your friend will hear and see the video or very close to how they will hear and see the video in their iPod.