Options for compressing video in iPhoto

So after using iPhoto for several years now, I've got lots of HD video snippets (hefty MOV files) scattered all throughout my years of created iPhoto Events. I don't have any intention of using iMovie to drag all the pics and movies together and make a "produced" movie, but instead just want to be able to access the individual iPhoto events & albums from my AppleTV for viewing with family. The newest Home Sharing feature of iTunes allows me to do this.. watching all the pictures & videos within albums and events - a great new feature. Unfortunately though, the large HD files take for ever (5 mins +) to load to the AppleTV before playing, thus ruining the "home video" experience.
I've done some experimenting compressing a few video files into 1080i .mp4 format using Quicktime then reimporting them into iPhoto. Without an "import to event" feature, it takes a while to find the imported files, then merge them with the original Event. When streaming the revised iPhoto event with the newly compressed video content, the files loaded quickly (1 to 2 sec) and were of acceptable quality.
I'm pleased with the results of this experiment, however, at 15 mins of work per video it would take way too much time to do this manually for my entire library. There are no features of iPhoto I know of that can perform the compression task, thus requiring all the file moving back and forth. Does anyone have suggestions on how this task could otherwise be done in a simpler fasion or using an automated technique?
Thanks for the help,
Chris

Check out Automator. I'm no expert on this, but it seems like you can get the Videos (gather them in a Smart Album first) and encode them with QuickTime in a workflow. That's half the work done. That just leaves you with replacing them in iPhoto.
And you can do this in iMovie too. You don't have to edit, just import them (which you can do from the iPhoto Library inside the iMovie window, add them to a time line and encode them as you prefer. Then export.
Not sure there is any way around manually adding and replacing them in iPhoto after though.
Regards
TD

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