Export Pro

NOTE: This new page is preliminary until the next release. Until then, please refer to the old page.

Preparation

You must select the output format in the QuickTime Export Preferences pane:

In the Lite version, simply pick the iPod preset that you want. In the Pro version, First pick the encoder you want, then under that, pick the preset you want, or create a new one. You can edit the preset by pressing the "Edit…" button. kJams ships with several presets defined for each encoder, (or just one when only one really makes sense). You can pick the encoder and preset only once if you like, and never worry about it again, until you want to export a different format. The four buttons, "New…", "Duplicate", "Rename…", and "Delete" apply to the preset files. Your presets are stored in the kJams preferences folder (currently ~/Preferences/kJams/Export/).

Caveats

• You can't do anything other than 15 frames per second.
  
• You can't do multi-pass encoding.
  

I'll try to fix both these problems, but for now that's the way it is, even if you try to set these in the setting dialog, the settings will be ignored.

• iPod exporter is missing: It just crashes on me, so it's disabled. Instead, use the "QuickTime" encoder and pick an "iPod" preset that i've created. I'm working on it.
• Do NOT pick audio types that aren't already set as presets. eg: Only pick Linear PCM, AAC, or Apple Lossless. If you pick any others, kJams won't be able to play them. I hope to fix this soon, but until then, these are your only choices.
• AVI output does not seem to produce audio, and if you try to then import, first it won't import until you change the ".avi" extension to ".mov", but then when you try to play you'll get the "Can't move to background thread" error.
• seems ther's a single white frame at the very end (should be black)

Export

Select the song(s) you want to convert to QuickTime, then go:

File->Export->QuickTime...

Pick a folder for the destination.

Each song will then be exported using Animation compressor for video, and uncompressed 44HKz 16bit Stereo audio.

You can then double click this resulting file to open it in QuickTime Player.

Special Considerations

The tasks window will show you what's going on. There will be a task, at the top, showing you "File X of Y", x being the one about to be or curently being exported, and Y being the total. If you export another (selection of) song(s) while there is an export already happening, Y will increment, and it will say "Selection added to export" in the LCD window. The export will go into the folder that the curent export is set to, you will not be asked for destination. If you attempt to export a song that is already exporting, you will be warned.

To abort a particular export, click it's stop sign. Other exports will continue along their way. To only finish the curent export then stop, click the stop sign next to the "File X of Y" task. This will allow the curent tasks to finish before halting, but will not initiate any new tasks (if you eg: have several more exports qued up, they will be canceled). To abort all tasks, including the curent one, first click the "File X of Y" stop sign, then click any remaining stop signs.

To get it onto your Video iPod

1. Export QuickTime using above steps, but pick "QuickTime Movie" as the encoder, and pick "iPod" as the preset (either of the default ones, or one you made).
2. Right click the resulting movie and pick "Open With->iTunes"
3. Inside iTunes, locate and Get Info on the song
4. In the "Info" tab, type in the Artist name
5. In the "Options" tab, in the "Video Kind" popup, choose "Music Video", press OK
6. Drag the video to your iPod