Apple TV Showing imported movies in podcast directory

When I am working on a video project at the end of the day I export my rough cuts to an mp4 format then import to my iphone through Itunes to watch and make notes on during the commute home. Sometimes I can watch on my laptop by usually there is no room so my iphone gets more use. When I get home and try to watch the video through my AppleTV, the files are listed correctly in the movies directory and works great.
The issues is when I then enter my podcast directory through Apple TV, all the video files I imported are also there but listed as unknown. So I will have a listing Diggnation, TRS, then 80 files of unkown. You can watch the file and everything in that regards works.
How can I prevent the mp4 files I import from showing up in my podcast directory?

are they also showing up in the podcasts section of itunes ?
it's possible that it is a tagging issue, check what the "video type" of the file(s) are.

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iI move the folder into trash, empty the trash, 'bingo' the file reappears in its original location (in the events library)... Thanks all the same, I would like to find a better way of deleting folders and files.
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Is such a thing possible (without losing all of iTunes' track specific metadata, such as playcount, etc, etc...
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+FYI: just for reference, I am using iTunes v8.0)+
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IMovie 9 - imported movie shows black in preview pane

Hey everyone, first time posting here.
Here's my issue. I have been working on a project for over a week now and have imported over 30 big files without any problems. Once I imported a file, I would select the footage I needed and add the selections to the top left window for editing. Everytime I would add new selections to my project, I would edit and preview in the top right pane without any problems. But since yesterday, none of my footage is viewable in the preview AND the event panes. In other words, everything I have imported/selected/edited is there, but it's all black (I can't say for audio, 'cause it's a silent movie). However, in the project (top left) pane, all of my thumbnails show the image (not black) and I can even see that the footage is there and working when I hit the spacebar. I have tried exporting the movie to see if it was just a problem with my preview and event panes, but the exported movie also shows everything black. There are text frame and pictures in my project, and these show just fine.
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OK there are three ways to do this depending on what you are after.
1) Option 1, get the three minutes I need into iMovie right now, and worry about the rest later
2) Option 2, get all the clips into iMovie right now. I'll pick the 3 minutes later
3) Option 3, Split all the clips into shorter clips so I can put them into real logical events. In other words, you have an hour long clip from a VHS tape, but you want to split it into the logical events that are contained in the clip.
Option 1)
There is a free tool called MPEG Streamclip. Download it here. The Beta version is very stable, so I recommend that. http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Close iMovie.
Go to the Finder. Find your iMovie Events folder. I am assuming that your 17 hours of footage are on an external hard drive, so they would be in the iMovie Events/"your event name" folder at the top level of the drive. If they are still on your internal drive, they are in the Movies/iMovie Events/"your event name" folder.
Drag the first long clip into MPEG Streamclip. Move the playhead to the start of the bit that you need from this clip, and press i for in point. Then move the playhead to the end of the bit that you need and press o for out point.
Finally, use FILE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME to export it out in the same format it currently is. Or better yet, export it out as Apple Intermediate Codec. HOWEVER, if your large files are DV, you will want to keep them as DV. You can do this by using FILE/EXPORT TO DV. This will give you a short clip of just what you need. Repeat this for all your 30 clips. Then import these short clips into an Event in iMovie, using FILE/IMPORT MOVIES.
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Option 2)
Close iMovie.
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You will use MPEG Streamclip, just as in option 1, but now, instead of just picking out the portion you will use immediately, you will position the playhead to the beginning of a logical clip and press i, then move the playhead to the ending of the logical clip, and press o. Then use FILE/EXPORT TO DV or FILE/EXPORT TO QUICKTIME and repeat until you have them all. Your logical clips could either be at the Event level. (You would set the in point and the beginning of the Christmas footage, and then set the out point where the Christmas footage ends.) Or they could be individual scenes within the logical event. It can be anything your want. To use another example, if your 17 hours of footage was of football games, you could set the in and out points corresponding to the quarter of the game, or you could set them for each play. Whatever will make it easier for you later.
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clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.ext
where clip must be lower case
hh is hours in 24 hour time
ext is the current extension (e.g. mov or dv). MPEG Streamclip should assign this automatically according to your settings.
You should now have separated all the clips from this one large clip. You can place them in logical event folders within the iMovie Events folder. For example, Christmas 1960, or Football Homecoming Game, whatever makes sense.
Now do the second large clip the same way, until all are done.
Restart iMovie and it will generate thumbnails.
That gets us through the three options.
I would strongly recommend that whichever option you choose, you do a test of it all the way through your workflow so that you understand it before doing all 17 hours of footage.
I wrote this quickly so it may be hard to follow. Do not hesitate to ask questions if something is not making sense.

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