iTunes won't stop music videos at the indicated stop time?

That's what I use it for too - playing music videos in my bar in Thailand (so life's not all bad). I didn't fancy editing thousands of videos to trim the ends. Glad I could help.

By the way, if you do want to trim the ends of some of your videos, I recommend using Mpeg Streamclip. It's a free download and not only makes it easy to edit and reshape videos but also has an "Automatic Volume Control" setting (in Adjustments) that normalizes the volume so you don't have to keep adjusting the sound level when playing the videos. Now that Volume Logic is no longer supported this is important. iVolume works well on audio tracks but unfortunately cannot help the music videos as iTunes doesn't have Sound Check for them. Good luck.

Thank you very much Pete, your program works perfectly :-)

This issue still exists as of September 30 2012, on Windows 7/8 itunes 10.7.0.21

#FIXIT

This issue still exists in iTunes 11. Well done.

Pete, could you give me more details on how to get and use Mpeg Streamclip?

I am not an advanced Mac user, just a music lover and this bug is really an issue when using my playlists. Thanks in advance.

Sure. Go to http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html and choose which version you would like to download. I use the Beta 1.9.3b8, or you could go with the more thoroughly tested release version 1.9.2. Download and install.

Then you can drag your video files onto the Mpeg Streamclip icon or open Mpeg Streamclip and use the File/Open File pulldown to select the video you want to edit. You can then play the video within Mpeg Streamclip and edit the video to cut the beginning and ending (or even to chop a chunk from the middle). Do this by selecting an "In" point (press "i") and an "Out" point (press "o") and then cutting that selection out (command x).

Once edited to your satisfaction then you produce a new video by re-encoding. I recommend using the "Export to MPEG-4" option under the "File" pulldown. You will be able to change the dimensions of the video, crop the edges to get rid of black lines (don't forget to select Source instead of Destination on the right), adjust the brightness, colour, etc, and, most useful of all, select "Automatic Volume Control" (if you do this with all your videos then it kind of makes up for the lack of Volume Logic).

Mpeg Streamclip has a very detailed, albeit technical, help text. But you probably won't need to use a quarter of the things it is capable of. Have fun!

Issue still exists, almost TWO YEARS LATER.

Ridiculous. Applescripts and/or editing outside of iTunes are NOT SOLUTIONS, they're workarounds. Come ON, Apple. If it's not going to work, at least remove the option!

Despite Pete kindness giving all detailed info, I've decided to just forget it. It's a lot of work and probably more ande more will come.

It seems to me that Apple already has the Microsoft "virus" and they start to care about quality as much as Microsoft does.

This is STILL a problem. I am using the Windows PC version of iTunes 11.0.0.163. I have a home video that I only want to watch a certain portion. Select the stop time in Get Info. Video completely ignore this. Apparently, MANY people have this problem throughout the web, but Apple has singularly dismissed this as an issue. Would be nice to get an official response.... wink wink, nudge, nudge.

I want to reply letting Apple know that this is annoying other users as well, still, in 2013.

I can't not believe such a simple issue still bothering me after been revealed for such a long time. Tested with 2x 27" and 2x MBA 13" both running 10.8.3 with latest itunes. One of them just get out of the box so any user input errors cound be ingored. Audio playing is fine for both start and stop time but none of these settings in video works.

All I can say is Good work. Apple!

Will call APP tomorrow to question them.

What the f, Apple?!
I thought they would listen to users... Do they read these boards? I guess customer satisfaction is limited to iphones.

Thanks for discussing this "video stop issue" which is drving me crazy as well.

I'm a novice user with a Dell Windows 7 laptop and must have experienced this issue after an iTunes update because I've never touched a MAC.

To prove I'm such a rookie, I'm confused as how this problem transferred to my iPod Nano (5th edition) as I manually manage my music and never sync with iTunes. Also, the affected clips are older, created with Firefox over two years ago.

Anyway, I have a handful of awesome videos I downloaded that require custom stop times for proper viewing. Please let me know if there's a work around for Windows laptop users affected by the "video stop glitch."

Ironically, since I switched to Chrome after Firefox kept crashing, I have yet to find a convenient means of downloading videos with Chrome to my laptop, let alone my iPod. Any suggested routes for a low tech user?

Thanks in advance for any insights to either issue.

Only suggestion I have is to switch back to Firefox.

Any chance there's a dummy's guide to using apple script editor? I have 100s of music videos I'd love to stop and start correctly, but have never used apple script editor before :/ Thanks!