We all know the restrictions of iTunes and the native iOS player when it comes to the video formats they support, but we also know the advantages of using these Apple applications because their integration with the system and their performance are superior to most options. existing in the App Store. Luckily there are applications as good as iVI, which we have already told you about before, that make your task much easier. But this excellent application available for OS X not only takes care of converting our movies to formats compatible with iTunes, adding metadata and covers to them, and leaving them ready to drag to iTunes to enjoy them on all our Apple devices, but it also has a non-functional function. well known: joining videos while doing all of the above. We explain how.
Surely those who have children will be familiar with this situation: data rate consumed in a week because the little one in the house has been watching Pocono on YouTube or in the Clan application. One of the most profitable options in this case is undoubtedly downloading YouTube videos (for example with Softorino Youtube Converter), but of course, they are usually short videos that also when added to your iPhone do not appear in the usual tab, but within «Home Videos». We are going to solve this by creating a single video that we are also going to treat as if it were a movie with its cover and everything.
We have our list of videos in Finder and the iVI application open. We select the first video we want to add, and dragging it to the iVI application will detect it and try to download information about it.
As it is not a movie and also is a video downloaded from YouTube, you will not find information, and the image you see just above these lines will appear. But now we are going to double click on it to edit that information and make everything look much more beautiful.
There are several fields that you have to pay close attention to to achieve the desired result:
- Movie Name: write only the most identifying word (in this case Pocoyo)
- Type: choose Movie
- Search: when you have the previous ones already filled in, click on this button to carry out the search.
At the bottom right you will see a series of titles, choose the one you like the most with its cover, and when you have it ready we go to the next stage of our procedure.
In that same window, click on the "Video Joining" tab, and we drag all the videos that we want to add to the previous one. We can select several at the same time in Finder and drag them as a group to the iVI window. When we have the list full we can close that window.
We already have our movie with all the videos that we download ready to be processed, with its cover and everything. Click on «Convert» and in a few minutes it will be ready to add to iTunes and to be able to synchronize it with our iPhone or iPad. Our data rate will appreciate it.