Syncing Apple TV without duplicating video intended for iPod

I am converting video for both Apple TV and iPod with iTunes. How do you prevent Apple TV from syncing the converted files intended for iPod to avoid two copies of the same video displayed on the TV set?

I have 601 video items at the moment in my master iTunes library. Many of them, but not all, are duplicated -- once for iPod and once for tv. Every movie now has a comment field containing "iPod Codec" or "AppleTV" or both as in "iPod Codec / AppleTV".
Then I built two sets of smart playlists, using this field as a filter along with my other smart playlist rules.
Each device is configured to only pick up the proper playlists, and voila!
Just be sure you're showing the "Comments" field in your iTunes view options, so you'll know if you missed adding text to one of your movies.

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