Review on Apple TV 1

The new Services support in Snow Leopard has got me interested in "really smoothing my Mac workflows", a term used by the demonstrator with the crazy hair at the last Apple keynote.<br /><br />I take a lot of home movies with a Kodak Zi6; it's a cheap, but cheerful, HD handheld video camera that produces great looking images with not so hot audio. I want to use my Apple TV to quickly review the home movies I produce on the camera - but that can be awkward. The Quicktime wrapped files produced aren't quite compatible with Apple TV directly and so I've had to use a manual workflow of opening the files in iMovie, exporting to Apple TV, importing to iTunes and then syncing to finally get them onto the Apple TV.<br /><br />With Quicktime 10, and the new Services support in Snow Leopard it is now possible to build a simple Automator workflow that allows me to -<br /><br /> 1. Select any number of Zi6 movies in the Finder.<br /> 2. Right click, and select the "Review on Apple TV" service that i've built using Automator and some Applescript.<br /> 3. The service will pick up all the selected files and send them to Quicktime for output in "Apple TV" format.<br /> 4. It then uses some Applescript to import the converted files into iTunes, ready for syncing with my Apple TV.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Mac, Mac OS X v10.6
Keyword:	Apple,  Applescript,  Automator,  Camera,  Files,  Finally,  Itunes,  Leopard,  Movies,  Quicktime,  Select,  Service,  Services,  Simple,  Support,  Syncing,  Tvquot,  Workflow
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