Home Videos on atv....

Hello all, I have been using my mac for over a year now and still feel quite "newbish" about it. Any way I want to play my home videos on my 55" hdtv. Now all of the files have been converted via HB to appletv requirements. My question is do all movies have to be imported into itunes to play via atv? how is the 1080i conversion?
Thanks,
Art

Yes content has to be in the itunes library before you can sync or stream it to the tv.
My tv is only 1280 x 720 but SD movies look just fine on it.

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Have encoded about 60 home video clips for an atv 2nd gen viewed through itunes. Have started to read here about the ability to categorize under movies with better orgaination with subler and metax.
Does anyone have a link to something like a youtube demo of some of the ways people have organized with these apps? Can seem to find anything. I would like to get some ideas prior to forging forward.
I am a Mac and Windows user, but prefer using Mac for this project. I have read here that subler is quicker on mac and is prefer by mac users.
Any pointers from others that have organized home videos this way?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Matt and newagemac for your responses.
I will look into subler and iFlicks. iFlicks in particular looks very interesting.
On a different note, I currently ATV encode with compressor 3.0.5 atv preset. Is this up to date with ATV 2nd gen. It looks satisfactory on SD home video I encode.
Here are the preset specs:
Name: H.264 for Apple TV
Description: H.264 1280x720 video @ 5Mbps, progressive. Audio is 44.1 kHz, stereo
File Extension: m4v
Estimated file size: 2.1 GB/hour of source
Device: Apple TV HD
Frame sync rate: 5 seconds
Video Encoder
Format: QT
Width and Height: Automatic
Pixel aspect ratio: Square
Crop: None
Padding: None
Frame rate: (100% of source)
Frame Controls: Automatically selected: Off
Codec Type: H.264
Multi-pass: Off, frame reorder: On
Pixel depth: 24
Spatial quality: 50
Min. Spatial quality: 50
Temporal quality: 50
Min. temporal quality: 50
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
Maximum data rate: 14 (Mbps)
Audio Encoder
Format: MPEG4
Sample Rate: 44.100kHz
Channels: 2
Bits Per Sample: 16
AAC encoder quality: high
Data rate: 128 Kbps
Does subler or iFlick have more up to date encoding presets for ATV 2gen? I notice on the iFlick apple store it has a 2009 post date. Maybe the download has been updated for ATV 2gen?

Is there a way to make Movies and Home Videos show up in different sections on the apple tv instead of showing the home videos mixed in with the movies?

I have several movies and home videos stored in itunes, when viewing these on appletv, it mixes all the movies and home videos together.
I would like to beable to select either Movies or Home Videos when viewing on the Apple TV if this is possible...?

You have 2 options:
1. Create Video Playlists in iTunes (for example create one for Home movies, the other for Movies)
You COULD make these Smart Playlists. (see below for one technique)
NOTE: If you wish to do this don't miss the preference in Settings to enable Video Playlists at least (at least in the latest ATV updates) I believe it's under Audio setting. Amazingly the default is NOT to show!! (had me going for quite a bit)
2. Set up your Home Movies as "Music Videos" This has some gotchas: like you'll probably want to choose the skip when shuffiling, also Now they'll appear in music lists. The only advantage to this is that it makes playlists more available on iOS devices since there are no Playlists displayed in the Videos App.... (yeah Apple's made this WAY confusing of late)
If you wish to keep these clearly defined (especially for use with Smart Playlists.
Select the movie
Get Info (Edit Menu) (or Command-I Mac, Control-I, PC)
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Alternate method for setting up smart playlist of home movies would be to set the Genre to "Home Movie"
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When I click on Computers, I used to see Home Videos, where I have around 200 rips, and converted VHS etc. However, since the latest iTunes update, this option has vanished and with it my access to these files, except they remain on iTunes.
I have searched and learned by selecting the get info on each file and changing the category to Movie, that I can access them there, but I liked the Home Videos option and it'll take a long time to move them all individually. I can't see that anyone has suffered the same problem lately.
Does anyone know whats going on or why this may have happened?
Its worth saying I am on version 12.0.0.117 of iTunes and up to date on ATV, have tried resets etc and having the trouble with two ATV's. I am running the Beta of Yosemite on my Mac that holds everything. Connections are hard wired through my router and I have no issues with all the other ATV functions.
Thanks in advance for any help.

I discovered this same problem the other day after updating to the Yosemite PB3. I updated my ATV in hopes that would fix the problem but it's still not working for me. However, thank you very much for the suggestion of changing the category to Movie. Not a solution but a definite positive workaround.

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Hi folks,
So I'm heavily researching the ATV. I have about 85'ish home video tapes I'm slowly transferring to m4v using HB and/or QT. Right now, the current build of HB can not support chapter markers, but a new build is on the way with that fix. I may just use QT for now, but I find it doesn't have as many quality controls as HB (ie. I can select a much higher kbps in HB).
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2. is MetaX the best app to type titles which will stay with the file? ie. if i made some m4vs, I can see myself sending some to my folks. if they drop it in Itunes, will the information pop up (I plan to detail the dates, places and ppl). It's a large project but worth it in the end I believe.
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Cheers,
Keebler

Keebler wrote:
Right now, the current build of HB can not support chapter markers, but a new build is on the way with that fix.
what do you mean by this? i use handbrake and it supports chapters. do you mean it doesn't support the naming of the chapters?
MetaX allows you to do chapters as well, so that might let you name them. trial and error i guess.
Keebler wrote:
2. is MetaX the best app to type titles which will stay with the file? ie. if i made some m4vs, I can see myself sending some to my folks. if they drop it in Itunes, will the information pop up (I plan to detail the dates, places and ppl). It's a large project but worth it in the end I believe.
yes. i use MetaX and never had a problem.

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burney1967 wrote:
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michael1104 wrote:
........ Is there a way to add these videos to my apple tv library without having to use home sharing?.......
Unfortunately not.

I use my iphone 5 to record home videos. I have an apple tv but dvd burners dont have a hdmi plug in. Any suggestions on how i can burn videos from iphone 5?

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