Trouble playing/syncing H264 videos to Apple TV

I have hundreds of videoclips exported to H264 from Final Cut. I´ve just got an ATV and I cannot sync the H264 files to the ATV. Do I have to export all my files to H264 ATV standard (preset)?

if the files are not in the quite strict appletv format, then they won't sync or play.
see here for the specs required - http://www.apple.com/appletv/specs.html

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