Watching home movies on ATV?

I download all my captured video from my digital camcorder to iMovie. I do not really make DVDs but just go to iMovie and watch selected clips from the Event Library Tab on the left side.
1. How can I watch these video clips on ATV? Do I have to transfer the clips to iTunes?
2. Do I actually have to make a DVD project and import to iTunes?
3. My goal is to select a bunch of movie clips and show my relatives the video on my TV versus everybody huddled around my iMac....how do I do this?
Sorry for the newbie question but thank you for any responses.

I am pretty sure you will need to create a 'project' under iMovie. However, that shouldn't be too difficult if all you really want to do is watch raw footage. Just create the project and dump all your clips into the project and that's it.
Now, to get it to Apple TV from iMovie is nice and easy, sort of. Select your project and go to the 'share' menu option. There is a selection to share, or publish, or whatever, directly to iTunes. Choose that. You're done. Apple TV can then view the home movie from your iTunes library.
Why the 'sort of'? Because publishing to iTunes does not support the full 1920x1080p that many HD TVs have these days. If you want to watch your home movies through Apple TV in 1920x1080, I do believe you're out of luck. In fact, I haven't found a good solution to watch my iMovie projects on my TV in full 1920x1080p.

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