Apple TV, Final Cut Pro and the .m4v format

I recently bought Apple TV not knowing I had to convert my home movie files into .m4v format. I have over 400 gigs of files that I want to be able to access on Apple TV but that is a lot to convert and store. I can't get rid of my original .mov files because Final Cut won't recognize the .m4v format. Before I return my Apple TV is there or will there a solution for a situation like this?

Welcome to the  Discussion Forums.
The tv works with .m4v, .mp4 and .mov file types. Could you explain what it is you want to do, Final Cut will export to .m4v as well as other formats for the tv, movies already in a format for the tv are encoded for delivery and not editing, so I'm a little confused why you would be wanting to use tv files as the source for a Final Cut project.

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