VideoDrive: easy iTunes video importing and tagging

A new version 1.5.8 has been released just now adding support for Presets. You can now save your metadata settings to files (and load them again off course).
There's a new version out almost every week now, each time with new great features. Looking forward to the next one!

I just found out about this app a day before this post :) Wish I found it earlier! Great app but kinda slow when adding artwork to mp4 files generated by VisualHub... but iTunes itself is slow with those files too. Anyway, VisualHub is out now since I don't have to convert my files to mp4 now.

Great tool!!! Front Row finally looks the way it should with my 250+ movies and shows added to iTunes with VideoDrive

I kind of doubt there is anything wrong with my QT installation since I clean installed Tiger two days ago and the only codecs I have installed are Perian 1.1 - and as mentioned, every AVI plays fine in QT yet fails to work with VideoDrive. This sounds like a great application - if it worked (the Applescript mentioned by Jak Logan does)...

VideoDrive is indeed a great tool: I use it for all my videos and as I don't want to waste time with reconversion this is perfect. I drag every video I get to the application icon and it's added immediately. And it's quite smart indeed: in 99% of the time I don't have to change the suggestions it makes for me.

The greatest feature is season and episode numbering of TV Shows. I used to do this manually, but now it's done for me. Including individual episode descriptions. This tool saves me lots of time. Definitely worth the (low) cost!!

Saphire (a Front Row/AppleTV plugin) does this in a slightly less round-a-bout (and free) way:
http://www.entertainmac.com/2007/12/safarire-media-browser-for-frontrow.php

It shows up in Front Row as another icon (like movies/photos/etc) - you can add any directories/drives to the it's library. It grabs film/TV-episode information, keeps track of watched/unwatched files etc. The screenshot only shows the film section, but the TV-show handling is very good.

http://appletv.nanopi.net/manual/install-leopard/ is the install instructions for OS X Leopard.

For an AVI file to show up in AppleTV, it has to be hacked, no? Just making sure I understand the story correctly... I would *love* to play AVIs on my AppleTV, but I'm not willing to open the box.

How does this work? Every video I try to add fails with "Import of ***.avi failed because QuickTime could not process your video. Make sure the video can be played in QuickTime and try again:QuickTime Player got an error: Can't continue . (error: -10000)" but QT can play the videos fine! Only using VideoDrive produces this failure. Anyone have any idea why?

Why not use this FREE Applescript?
http://dettmer.maclab.org/movie2itunes.html

MetaX does this and more for free.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24994/metax

Leopard only though....