Syncing Movie Playlists?

In the past, I've always had specific playlists in iTunes that I would add/remove songs and movies from then sync directly to my iPod (just in case something happend and I lost everything on the iPod I could just sync right back to where it was).
But now with the iPhone 3G all I can do is scroll through a list (in my case, an extremely long list) of movies and put a tick next to the ones I want on my iPhone - this gets very annoying very quickly.
Is there a way to sync movie playlists directly to you iPhone 3G?

No way.
iPhone only recognizes one Movie list, the same for TV Shows.
If you want to create a Movie list in the iTunes you use to sync your iPhone, it won't be recognized either.
The Movies are treated as if they were in a solely single list that you can't modify... at least that you modify the name of every movie in iTunes to make them appear in different order.
I am agree that it is a must to have a way to manage movies in different lists. But, at this moment, it is impossible.

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Select the movies in iTunes. Open the Get Info window and select the Options tab. Change the "Media Kind" from movie to music video. Make a playlist of those videos and sync to your iPod. Play them using the "Music" icon rather than the "Videos" icon. Choose them from the "playlists" selection in the they will play in sequence and you can also rotate to either portrait or landscape mode.

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Thank you. This solved my problem too.
But, one little thing to share:
"There's an option in settings for Playlists. It was set to Music only. Changed that to All then found the movie playlist under Movies by selecting Genre."
This is not to be done in iTunes in your computer; this is to be done at your apple TV under "setting". "audio video" "show playlist" "music only/all"
I am posting this here because I started chat mode with Apple support last night at midnight till 1:30, they didn't know what to do.
They called me back this morning at 10 am.
It's not 11:40 they finally know what I am talking about and showed me where to to find the "music only / all" toggle. My problem is now fixed;
all these time, they have in front of them a screen shot of your questions and answer but they don't know where to change it from music only to all.
So, I hope this will save the next victim a lot of time.
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*Dear all,*
*I am okay with mp3 playlist. But I cant make the movie playlist.*
*How can i make the video(Movie) playlist in itouch?*
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*I want to list all english movies in one playlist and spanish movies in another playlist.*
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*Anybody have solution for this one..?*

You can group music, but not movies (videos). There is a way to group movies:
Select the movies in you 'Movies' tab in iTunes, right click, then select get info.
Tick the box next to artist, and fill in the studio of the movie. Then re-sync all content to iPod.
Albums of MP4 need to be converted to AAC, to do this:
Select the songs you wish, right click, and choose 'Covert Selection to iPod'.
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I have searched the forums for a while now, I can see many problems like this but cant seem to find a solution whether that means there isn't one or not I do not know but here goes!
Bought myself an 80GB 5G iPod, I have synced most of my albumns on, a few video files and that is it. I have created a few Smart Playlists and have most, of the default Smart Playlists. The problem I am having is in choosing which playlists get synced under the "Music" and "Movies" tabs on the summary page.
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I tried the restore button which returned the error "The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occured (1418)". After googling this I followed these instructions on the apple website: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304508
Completed all steps from 1-5 and tried to restore it again, the same error message ("1418") appears.
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See "Can I play my rental on more than one device?" here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1657

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Shouldn't the 2.3 update play the movie playlist already?
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This doesn't really contribute anything but....
Music video playlists and playlists for short TV shows (eg kids cartoons) I can understand, but I can't personally envisage needing a movie playlist - what do you need it for? Is it say for watching Star Wars I-VI consecutively or something along a 'movie party' line?
Even with TV shows so long as they're grouped properly can't see it takes more than a couple of secs to select the next episode.
Maybe it's because I'm not a big playlist user (even for music) in the first place.

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how to you move playlist from iTunes to your iPad?

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