TV episodes marked as movies

As a bit of background, I have two drives one with my media on and the other with a backup of said media. The backup is simply a copy which uses the modified date to determine if a newer version needs to be copied. The problem I have is that when I add a tv episode file to iTunes, it is automatically classed as a movie and I must manually set it to a TV episode. If I remove and re-add the file, it is once again marked as a movie and must be changed again.
This is more of an annoyance but the real problem is that when changing it, iTunes accesses the file and, although it is still identical, the modified date is changed. Obviously when I had to re-add all 1TB of series it was annoying that I had to wait 24 hours for it to be backed up again. Is this typical behaviour and is there a way to stop it? If I make the files read only, I am unable to change it from movie to TV episode.

I just tried changing the video kind through a visual basic script (a VBS file), and it turns out that this also messes with the original video file, as you described in your original post. There was a chance that changing the video kind through scripting may have left the original video file untouched, but alas it doesn't. I even tried restoring file attributes after changing the video kind, and some of those attributes are read-only (through both iTunes.Application as well as Scripting.FileSystemObject).
A long winded way of saying, I can't help.

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1. Do as normal and offload the files onto your Mac (this may work with PC too, but I'm 100% Mac now, sorry PC!)
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Hi all...
Just thought I'd provide a tip to getting your Canon 5D Mark II movie files (the files as they were recorded straight off the camera) onto your iPad as quickly (and hopefully painlessly) as possible.
1. Do as normal and offload the files onto your Mac (this may work with PC too, but I'm 100% Mac now, sorry PC!)
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3. In Handbrake, I created a new setting called iPad, based off of the existing High setting. I changed the resolution to max dimension of 1024 (no point in creating larger than necessary files).
4. Select the directory where you imported all of your camera movie files by clicking Source.
5. Handbrake will chug along for a while, scanning that directory, and every movie file in it. It may take a couple of minutes.
6. Once it's done, you can now queue up each file very quickly by selecting the title from the drop down below the source button. Just make sure your iPad setting is selected in the panel on the right. (it shouldn't change as you select each movie).
7. Go make a cup of your favorite brew, sit back, and relax - this will take a lot longer than step 5. (I do this processing overnight usually).
8. When done, import the newly created files into iTunes.
9. Plug in your iPad, and under the Movies tab, select your movies.
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If for some reason this is a duplicate of another post here, please forgive me and merge this thread with that one (or just disregard this thread). Good luck, and please follow up here with any corrections / refinements!

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http://prolost.blogspot.com/
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http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-31161.html
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