Automate Video conversion..

Hi
im not sure if this is possible but i would like to use automator to convert avi files in to two mpeg-4 files one for apple tv and one for iphone. The iphone file needs to be less than 300mb. is there a way to do this? Thanks Steve

Hi Steve
Conversion is quite simple. Here are the actions you need:
1. Get specified Finder items: Chooses the file(s) to be converted. There are similar actions which might also be useful, e.g. Get Selected Finder Items
2. Export Movies: This action can be found in the Automator Library under Music. It will let you choose whether you want to create Apple TV or iPhone Format.
This should answer your question. But after that I am stuck. I want to add this converted movie to my iTunes Library so it will automatically sync to my iPhone next time I plug it in. Using "Import Files into iTunes" only seems to work for Audio files. If someone knows a solution for that please reply to this post.
Walter

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812322 wrote:
... the notation Y* means that the conversion is an automatic widening conversion, but that some of the least significant digits of the value may be lost by the conversion. This can happen when converting an int or long to a float or double. The floating-point types have a larger range than the integer types, so any int or long can be represented by a float or double. However, the floating-point types are approximations of numbers and cannot always hold as many significant digits as the integer types.
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