Need Quicktime Automation

I have many video files to "save as" and have preferences set as "play when opened" and "full screen" on some and then I check the "high quality" setting as well. Automator has an action that does at least the first part in batch but it doesn't work right. It takes forever for a video to start playing even when you select that box.
My question is, does anyone know a fix for this or another way or willing to write a script to handle what I need?
I also batch out .DV files into .Mov files and again automator has that action but I have my file names are in sentences like "I walked the dog" and when I use that batch action it takes that off the saved .mov file and just numbers them. So again, I ask the same question as above.
Any help would be much appreciated as I have many of these files to do and more than I can do by hand.
Rack

Thanks and yes I have, in fact this is the action I was specifically speaking of. It doesn't keep the name of the file as the .dv file was created. For example:
If my file is named: 01.Archery Bulls in Arizona.dv
the file through that automation ends up being: 01.mov and drops the names. Try it and you can see what I am talking about.
The other action is a standard one in automator as well that is the properties action for quicktime. It to doesn't work the way it is supposed to. Try one and then post it on line and try and download it and it takes forever to play where as if I do a direct save as with those properties set in quicktime it works just fine. Not a big deal but I have thousands of video clip files to do.
Rack

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