Atv and metax / subler questions with home video

Have encoded about 60 home video clips for an atv 2nd gen viewed through itunes. Have started to read here about the ability to categorize under movies with better orgaination with subler and metax.
Does anyone have a link to something like a youtube demo of some of the ways people have organized with these apps? Can seem to find anything. I would like to get some ideas prior to forging forward.
I am a Mac and Windows user, but prefer using Mac for this project. I have read here that subler is quicker on mac and is prefer by mac users.
Any pointers from others that have organized home videos this way?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Matt and newagemac for your responses.
I will look into subler and iFlicks. iFlicks in particular looks very interesting.
On a different note, I currently ATV encode with compressor 3.0.5 atv preset. Is this up to date with ATV 2nd gen. It looks satisfactory on SD home video I encode.
Here are the preset specs:
Name: H.264 for Apple TV
Description: H.264 1280x720 video @ 5Mbps, progressive. Audio is 44.1 kHz, stereo
File Extension: m4v
Estimated file size: 2.1 GB/hour of source
Device: Apple TV HD
Frame sync rate: 5 seconds
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width and Height: Automatic
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
Maximum data rate: 14 (Mbps)
Audio Encoder
Format: MPEG4
Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16
AAC encoder quality: high
Data rate: 128 Kbps
Does subler or iFlick have more up to date encoding presets for ATV 2gen? I notice on the iFlick apple store it has a 2009 post date. Maybe the download has been updated for ATV 2gen?

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