![]() ![]() I hadn't had a chance to watch it again until recently. I loved the NEW Star Trek movie so much that I bought it on iTunes immediately and later on Blu-ray (yes, I know the Blu-ray comes with a Digital Copy. I saw that I can have visual chapters now? So needless to say when Apple announced iTunes Extras in iTunes 9, I wasn't even remotely interested. Director's commentaries, deleted scenes, alternate endings, interviews and trailers are all cool, but I almost never look at them. I can't think of a single DVD movie that I bought because it had great extras. Always talking.DVD Extras have never really excited me. It certainly delighted me this weekend as I was able to free the “Toy Story: Hawaiian Vacation” short film from the new distribution of Cars 2 in HD on iTunes.ĬEO & Co-Founder | Angel InvestorĪcorns, Shift, Dropbox, Greylock Partners, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple. ![]() Hope this delights at least one other person out there. It’s a little extra work to get the correct title, year and cover art on the file, but a quick cut & paste from Google can solve that. So they largely work like the main video that you bought off iTunes. More importantly, they are all just “M4V” files, which are MPEG 4 video files that are copy protected with the iTunes DRM. The iTunes Extra file is a just a package, and the video files are inside. *.app files are really packages (directories) of content, wrapped so that you can click on them as if they are a single file. In fact, all the applications on the Mac are delivered this way. ![]() You see, the Mac OS Finder has a trick that it inherited from NeXTStep: you can take any folder, mark it a “package”, and the Finder displays it as if it were a single file. You’ll have to add the artwork and fix the title, but then you have your short film, separate and synchable, just like any other movie. Add the movie to your iTunes, just like any other video.I use the “Option Drag”, where I hold the option key down, and drag the file to my desktop. Just copy these files to your desktop.In that folder, you will see all the “M4V” files that are the video extras, including the short films You will see a folder inside called “videos”.Select “Show Package Contents” from the menu.“Right click” or “control click” the file.There will be a file selected with an “ITE” extension. You will now see the folder for the movie in your iTunes Library.Go to the iTunes Extras file in iTunes, and “right click” or “control-click” the file.In fact, it’s not even cracking – it’s like finding the little red string on a wheel of cheese that makes it trivial to remove the wax covering. I just don’t need to see “Making Of” clips that often.įortunately, it turns out to be an easy problem to solve.Ĭracking open the iTunes Extras turns out to be trivial. More importantly, you don’t really want to carry around gigabytes of the extras. When you connect with the AppleTV, you don’t see the iTunes Extras. When you sync your iPod, iPhone or iPad with the library, you don’t get the iTunes Extras. There is a small problem with this system, however. The iTunes Extras are basically “everything else” that comes packaged on Blu-Ray and DVD discs: deleted scenes, trailers, exposés on the making of the film, and for certain films (like Pixar movies), short films. When you buy certain movies, typically the more expensive HD versions, you also get the “iTunes Extras”. Recently, Apple debuted a new feature at the iTunes Store. Credit to DJ Patil for goading me to write this up. This is a quick tip, but somewhat delightful, so I’m sharing it here on this blog. ![]()
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