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danny_w

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Mar 8, 2005
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My wife takes videos of dance lesson recaps to review later, and this worked great on the :apple:TV where we could just copy the video from the camera and rename it; it was automatically seen on the :apple:TV via Home Sharing in all its 720p glory.

The problem arose when I got my wife an iPad which has a 4:3 aspect ratio and would not accept the nice 720p videos directly. I used iTunes to create iPad versions of the files, but now there are 2 copies of each file, and only half if those will sync to the iPad. I solved this by unchecking the 720p versions but could find no way to exclude them from a smart playlist; is there something to key on that will determine if the video is iPad compatible or not?

Another issue is that now since there are 2 copies of each video that both sync to the :apple:TV the list on the :apple:TV is getting long and confusing. The unchecked (720p) videos are grayed out (but selectable) while the iPad versions show nicely in the list of videos but don't look as good on-screen.

Does anybody else do something similar and how do you cope with the issues?
 
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