Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] How do I convert an iPhoto movie to one for AppleTV in iTunes with deleting the original?

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 16:12:08 -0700

On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Mike wrote:

> I want to be able to show videos on my large screen TV using AppleTV. This is connected through iTunes automatically. I have videos in iPhoto taken with my iPhone and other cameras that I need to have in iTunes. They need to be converted and placed in the iTunes library, but I don't want the original iPhoto videos to be deleted. It would be best if I only had 2 copies of the video: one in iPhoto and one in iTunes. I am using indexing without having all videos in Usher. What is the easiest way to make this conversion using the current capabilities of Usher? I am using Usher direct v 1.1.5
> Note: Usher has already corrupted my iPhoto DB once by deleting the video, but not the index to the video. This was when I made a copy to the Usher library. I basically want to avoid anything but reading of my iPhoto DB.

For now, I would _not_ use Usher to do this with files in iPhoto or iTunes. It's not supposed to be possible, and as you've discovered, working with those files (copying, in your case) can cause issues in iPhoto and iTunes.

So if you want to use Usher, you'll have to export them all from iPhoto, import them into Usher, convert them, export them, then import them into iTunes. That'd be the safest route to go.

regards,
-rob.

---

From: Mike <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:29:24 -0700 (PDT)

I want to be able to show videos on my large screen TV using AppleTV. This 
is connected through iTunes automatically. I have videos in iPhoto taken 
with my iPhone and other cameras that I need to have in iTunes. They need 
to be converted and placed in the iTunes library, but I don't want the 
original iPhoto videos to be deleted. It would be best if I only had 2 
copies of the video: one in iPhoto and one in iTunes. I am using indexing 
without having all videos in Usher. What is the easiest way to make this 
conversion using the current capabilities of Usher? I am using Usher direct 
v 1.1.5
Note: Usher has already corrupted my iPhoto DB once by deleting the video, 
but not the index to the video. This was when I made a copy to the Usher 
library. I basically want to avoid anything but reading of my iPhoto DB.