Quicktime Save As available?

I have a large number of FLV files that I want to convert to MOV. After much playing with various batch conversion programs and compressions schemes it turned out that the best way to do this was a simple Save As in Quicktime Pro (versus an Export). No change in quality and small file size was the result. I am looking to create an Automator Folder Action that will look for incoming FLV files in the Downloads folder, save as MOV in the Movies folder and then copy the original to a Converted folder.
I don't have any problems getting the finder items (although I'm not sure it will work once I convert to a folder action), but I was shocked that something as simple as Save As was not an available action (followed by close Quicktime when you're done). I've read through a number of posts and it sounds like I could replicate using keystrokes (I tried the record actions using a mouse with nasty results) but thought I would ask if there were other suggestions.
Thanks.

Hi,
I was looking for the same thing! But I don't think it's necessary to put the files in a mov container.
Search for and download "AViTunes". Just open that in Automator and change "Filter Finder Items" to flv and save it as... FLViTunes
Hope that helps!
Regards

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