Do I need to make a separate copy of my music for iTunes to find it?

Can iTunes be set up to automatically update my music if I add new music or change the folder a certain album is in? Or do I need to create a separate folder of my music for my iTunes library (I have over 30GB of music). While I am asking, will my iTunes folder for video only display the videos that are in mp4 format (is it possible for iTunes to convert video files)? I am a recent convert from the Zune player, and while I love my IPod Touch, I think the Zune software was better, as it always updated my music from my folder and converted video to play on my Zune......

iTunes doesn't monitor your media folders in the way Windows Media Player does. Use iTunes Folder Watch.
iTunes won't convert other video formats, but again third party tools can help. Try DVDVideoSoft Free Studio.
Since you're coming from a WMP perspective you might find my tips here and here for getting WMP and iTunes to play nicely together useful: (Hmm, those links don't seem to be landing properly at the right posts within the thread but I'm sure you can find the relevant sections.).
iTunes also has some "interesting" organizational quirks which I cover in an article on Grouping tracks into albums.
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