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OK, two part question:

1) Is there an easy way to convert a whole batch of movies from .avi to .mov? I'm not talking changing codec, or even just renaming them from .avi to .mov because that doesn't work, but to change the container format so that iTunes recognizes them. This can currently be done by simply opening the file in QuickTime and saving it again as a .mov. Easy to do for one file, cumbersome when you have a TV-series.

2) Editing information for multiple videos in iTunes is clearly lacking, again showing how iTunes are supposed to be for music, not videos. It brings up the standard ID3-tag window for music, not the movie info. Is there an easy way to batch-tag the videos either by Apple Script or an external app? Preferably something that intelligently tagged it based on info gleamed from the filename. There are some excellent AppleScripts which does this for music already, but I need to edit the movie-specific info (show name, episode, season, video kind, episode ID etc.).

Sidenote: How retarded is it that you can't have episode as a column in the TV-show view? And where is the original airdate-tag?

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To partly answer my own question: Doug has an Apple Script that allows you to at least set the video kind for videos. That brings me about 1/8th of the way *sigh*

[Uncle Skeleton]

For batch converting there's DivX Doctor II or Metadata Hootenanny (The latter written by me, open source, was an attempt at what you want, but from before iTunes had anything to do with videos, so the metadata categories are not compatible).