Tools
All the tools you need to get your movies on the iTunes Store.
Transporter App
Apple’s desktop tool for submitting content to the store. Simply add the iTunes Store Package you want to deliver or verify. Requires OS 10.11 or later.
Transporter
Apple's command-line tool to prepare and deliver large content catalogs. Also available for Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Parallax Previewer
Parallax Previewer is a convenient way to preview layered app icons or layered images created for Apple TV. You can use your trackpad or mouse to animate the whole image and view the perspective.
This app opens layered images created with the Parallax Exporter plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 2020 or later. If you don’t use Adobe Photoshop, you can also use Parallax Previewer to assemble the individual layers and export a layered image.
Parallax Previewer 1.0 requires macOS 10.10.5 or later, and 2.0 requires macOS 13.5 or later.
Parallax Exporter
Parallax Exporter is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, which you can use to proof and export your layered app icon and layered images for Apple TV.
You can easily preview a layered image to see how it will animate before you export it to a file. After export, you can review it or allow others to preview it using the Parallax Previewer app.
Parallax Exporter requires Adobe Photoshop 2023 or later and macOS 12.4.0 or later.
Parallax Exporter for Windows requires Adobe Photoshop 2023 or later and Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit (version 22H2) or later.
Telestream MacCaption
A third-party tool for closed captioning for any PC or Mac workflow. Watch video tutorials on Telestream's website to learn how to change the start time of captions, fix the caption drift, export iTT and SCC for iTunes, or change the framerate of a subtitle.
Telestream has also written a whitepaper about how to use MacCaption and Switch to prepare your video for iTunes delivery.
Telestream Switch
A third-party tool to play, inspect and correct all your media files. Watch video tutorials on Telestream's website to learn how to use Switch and upload to iTunes.
Quiver
Quiver is a simple-to-use online portal that helps filmmakers prepare and upload their films to the iTunes Store. Quiver can handle all aspects of the iTunes delivery, including encoding, metadata entry, packaging, subtitling, and uploading. In addition, once a movie is on the iTunes store, Quiver’s financial dashboard lets filmmakers track sales and see the status of their payments.
3Play Media
3Play Media is a third-party closed captioning vendor and approved iTunes partner. 3Play Media provides an easy-to-use online account system to quickly create iTunes captions that are fully compliant with FCC and CVAA requirements. Just create a 3Play Media account, upload a movie file, select the turnaround time, and then download the iTunes captions when they are complete.