Creating Apple TV movs in iTunes

I have a few movies in iTunes which won't sync with my Apple TV. So I right click on them and "convert for Apple TV".. it spends about an hour converting each file. But once finished I am left with a mov that is the correct run time and correct audio, but displays only a while screen for the duration. This has been for every movie I have tried to convert within iTunes.
Anyone else experience this issue?

Ignore. I have re posted this to the Mac forums... Accidently did it to the Windows forums.

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