Making a Video Podcast

If you're creating a series of movies, like footage from each game in a soccer season or places visited on a vacation, you can use a video podcast to share your movie with team members and friends—even the world.

Use iMovie to create your movie episodes, and use iWeb to publish them as video podcasts. You can even use .Mac for hosting your video podcasts and publishing them in the iTunes Podcast Directory so others can easily find them.

Tips

Additional options for creating video podcasts

iWeb and GarageBand include additional features for creating video podcasts, such as setting the series artist, contact email, parental advisory rating, and iWeb allows you to submit your podcast to the iTunes Podcast Directory.

Posting your video podcast with .Mac

iWeb includes the ability to publish your site to a folder so you can copy your podcast files to any server of your choice. For added convenience, you can publish your podcast files to your .Mac account for the easiest way to get your podcast up and running. You can also have your podcast listed in the iTunes Music Store so it is easy for viewers to find.

Steps

Create your first video podcast

Create a new iMovie project and import a few minutes of video. Move the video to the timeline.
Click Chapters and add a few chapter markers to your movie using the Add Marker button. Space the markers out throughout your movie. Add chapter titles to the chapter markers.
Verify Podcast URLs are visible under the chapter titles of your chapter markers. If you are not sure, select the Marker menu and verify a checkmark is next to the menu item Show Podcast URLs. If the checkmark is not shown, choose the Show Podcast URLs from the Markers menu item to enable it.
Select a chapter marker and click Link URL. Type in a URL associated with your movie content, such as one with your personal website. This URL could even be a location in the iTunes Music Store. Viewers will be able select this website to access to a specific location when viewing your podcast.
Make sure each chapter has a chapter name. Optionally, add podcast URLs to one or two other chapter markers.
Choose iWeb from the Share menu. Select Share for video podcast and click Share. If you see a message that your movie needs to be rendered before you can proceed, click Proceed Anyway. While you would want to render before posting a video podcast, it is not necessary to our purposes here.
iMovie will open iWeb and proceed with setting up your video podcast. To choose a template for your webpage, scroll down and select Travel. Notice the sample travel page shown.
Select the Podcast page and click Choose. iWeb opens with your movie inserted onto a page for your video podcast series. Look at the left of the iWeb window to see your site and first page listed. As you publish additional video podcasts, they would be added to your site as additional entries.
From here you could simply update the sample text and click Publish. You could also select Publish to .Mac or Publish to Folder from the File menu.
Congratulations. You’ve successfully created a movie that can be published as a video podcast. For more information on using the iWeb application, visit the iWeb tutorial.