if I have any kind of lead time (or set it up before bed), I'm golden

I didn't use it much, because it was such a resource hog and so slow.. I had to give over the computer to it entirely, and it was a separate step. But if I had a backlog, that'd be the way I'd address it.

handbrake doesn't really slow my computer down a lot when I use it, but typically I'm websurfing or writing when that happens, so I am not sure I would see a lot of slowdown.

Thanks! At least now I have a place to start.

Lee, have you tried OPlayer?

Lee, have you tried OPlayer?

Nope--I shall do so though.

There's a lite version that's free that you might want to test out first.

Lee, i lovelovelove AVPlayerHD.

thanks for the two tips. I will try both!

Thanks for the tip, Tiggy. I will try that too!

one of the best features of AVPlayer is wifi transfers. makes things even easier to transfer over.