Home movies on ATV (1st Gen).

Under "movies" on my ATV (and on Front Row app.) I have movies and/or slideshows that I didn't add, and want to remove them. Conversely I recently created a movie of family photos with music on iMovie, moved to iDVD then saved as an img extension. I burned DVDs without problems. I would like to move it to "movies" on my 1st Gen ATV for showing, but haven't been able to do it. Can you advise me of the procedure to accomplish this, both removing unwanted movies and adding wanted movies to the ATV. Thank you.

Hi!
Open your project in iMovie. Click on "share" at the top of the screen. When the menu appears, click on "share to iTunes". You will get a menu asking you to pick what size you want. Go for the large size for the ATV. When it's done sharing, (may take awhile depending on how long the movie is) if your ATV is set to auto synch new content, it will copy over right away. If not, you can manually synch it, or just stream it. Hope that helps!
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