Exporting to Apple TV

I have imported my personal movie from my Sony MiniDV camcorder to iMoveHD. The total length of the movie is just 7:45 minutes. There is a new option in iMovieHD called Export to Apple TV. When I use the export option I have two issues:
First being, the export takes about 5 hours to complete on my iBook. This does seem very weird. It takes about the same time if I try to export using H.264 codec, terrible slow. If I use the DV codec it takes about 20 minutes.
Second issue, is after the export, when I play the movie in iTunes, the video does not maintain the aspect ratio. All people look fatter and shorter than the original movie. The height seems to have shrunk.
Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong ?

Exporting from iMovie to a movie with the H.264 codec tends to be slow. Very slow. The time required depends on your processor. What you describe is probably normal. If your export succeeds, and it sounds like yours did, everything is okay. It's just going to take a while. (Apple TV is going to sell a lot of Macs, I suspect, for this and other reasons. But that would be speculating.)
Regarding the dimensions of the exported movie: yours is 720x480, I suspect. You probably exported from a "normal" iMovie DV project. That's the dimensions I get here from a DV project. (To learn more about the exported movie, drop it on the QuickTime Player icon in the Dock and open the Movie Info window.)
My guess is — and it's just a guess — Apple TV will handle what appear to be aspect ratio problems when the image appears on the TV. The "Apple TV" export format defaults to one of several dimensions, depending on the source material. (It's different for HDV iMovie projects and DV Wide projects than for DV.) It will work with your TV to make it look right.
Like the generic iPod export setting, the Apple TV setting offers only the "Default" setting. That's a clue, suggesting QuickTime knows what it has to do and it takes care of doing it. When the movie is intended for Apple TV, Apple probably doesn't want you messing with it.
The quality of the Apple TV imovie is so good it hurts, doesn't it?
Tip: If you don't want the Apple TV movie to open in iTunes, change the suffix of the exported movie from ".m4v" to "mov". (Either when you export it or later, in the Finder.) Now when you double-click on it, it opens in QuickTime Player.
Karl

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