Multiple video format, 1 iTunes entry

I have searched for this, and , can't seem t find an answer.
I have multiple apple devices, and, like to rip my Blu-ray Discs to watch on these devices. I have an Apple TV , iPad, iPad mini and iPod touch.
This makes for a messy iTunes library though. Because (using the movie batman as an example) in my iTunes library, I have the same movie, multiple times because I encoded it for several devices. It will be listen something like this:
Batman (iPad)
Batman (AppleTV)
Batman (iPod Touch)
So, my question is, is there a particular naming convention I can use where I can rip 3 different formats and all three versions will roll up into one entry in iTunes where iTunes and my devices will be smart enough to use the correct file in different situations??
Any amount of help I can get on this would be greatly appreciated :)
Hope everyone had (is having) a great holiday :)

Me too, all my movies are on Ext HDD with an alias pointing to them from the movies folder in my home directory but in itunes i do not know how to add any of them.
The movies are in avi format DivX and Xvid.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Edit...
Ok got the files added but it copies them to my musc folder, is there a way to keep them in the original place on my ext hdd?

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