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Sep 19, 2013 9:41 PM in response to MiataMike1by Johnathan Burger,Movies from iTunes show poster art with the name of the movie on it.
If they are from other sources, tag them with art work.
In iTunes select the movie, right click select get info.
Open the artwork tab, drag image into window.
Or use a tool such as identify.
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Sep 19, 2013 10:03 PM in response to Johnathan Burgerby MiataMike1,Jonathan, that is the conclusion we came too. However, it is unfortunate that the IOS 6.x behavior was changed as the simple 'Name' caption, when artwork was missing, was an elegant solution both from an Apple developer standpoint as well as from a user ease-of-use standpoint.
Johnathan Burger wrote:
Movies from iTunes show poster art with the name of the movie on it.
If they are from other sources, tag them with art work.
In iTunes select the movie, right click select get info.
Open the artwork tab, drag image into window.
Or use a tool such as identify.
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Sep 20, 2013 1:52 PM in response to Johnathan Burgerby NPSNW,Unfortunately adding artwork only works if the movie is imported into iTunes, then placed on your portable device. If you keep large files, like movies, on an external hard drive in order to keep your computer's hard drive free, then the artwork modification tab is greyed out and non-functional. I drag most of my movies from the hard drive directly to my iPad to keep the space free. The other fix of modifying something under the Get Info option will provide the file name in the center of movie graphic displayed in the list. I just hope a fix is coming. Plenty of display space exists around the movie icons; this should never have been an issue.
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Sep 21, 2013 12:59 AM in response to MiataMike1by eric.mcclung,I hope Apple is reading this. No video names is ridiculous and one of the beta testing areas that is hard to imagine that they missed. This is a problem on both my iPad Mini and iPhone 5.
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Sep 22, 2013 5:41 PM in response to MiataMike1by TheeCPA,I agree with the PITA comments. Just piping in with the hope that someone at Apple will read this thread if there are enough chatter on a post.
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Sep 22, 2013 8:22 PM in response to MiataMike1by riuster,I tried this and it worked...
In itunes..i clicked on one home movie, renamed it as Movie, resynced, then now in my ipad i get two selections
Home Videos and Movies
Movies dont have titles, but Home videos do
Go back to Get Info
select Options
choose Home videos, but have one or so as a Movie..
that should work
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Sep 22, 2013 8:34 PM in response to riusterby sendittome,So because some "Genius" at Apple decides to take away basic file name information from an existing feature for years, we as customers are supposed to find a work around? Hopefully at least one more head will roll inside of this company. There are several other things that should have never made it past Beta...
Makes me wonder if Apple hasn't entered another downhill slide like they did with the PowerPC revolution.
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Sep 22, 2013 9:02 PM in response to riusterby MiataMike1,Yes, if there is no artwork then "Home Videos" show a caption but "Movies" do not. The question I have is why does it matter what the "Media Kind" is. Whether it is a "Movies" or a "Home Video" if there is no artwork a screen-shot of the first video frame is shown as an icon, which is usually meaningless. So why not always display a caption if there is no artwork, regardless of "Media Kind"?
riuster wrote:
I tried this and it worked...
In itunes..i clicked on one home movie, renamed it as Movie, resynced, then now in my ipad i get two selections
Home Videos and Movies
Movies dont have titles, but Home videos do
Go back to Get Info
select Options
choose Home videos, but have one or so as a Movie..
that should work
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Sep 23, 2013 1:36 AM in response to MiataMike1by MartyMcF,I agree - removing file names, removing 'watched' badges, and no longer showing 'time remaining' for video files all make for a lousy UX when you have several files to navigate
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Sep 23, 2013 4:11 AM in response to MartyMcFby Glenn00,INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. And heaven forbid you wanted to go one step further and not even see an icon of the movie (even if it had the name of the movie below it), and just wanted a "list" of movies. For over 10 years I have been a die hard Apple devotee. But over the past couple of years they have been more focused on flashy graphics and transitions instead of form.
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Sep 23, 2013 4:54 AM in response to sullyiniaby Glenn00,"I can't believe this is the intended functionality." The amazing part is that you would think that someone have to affirmatively take that feature out - it's not like they forgot to put it in (because it was there with IOS 6). As I grapple with this issue this morning, I am incredibly frustrated. I have a lot of "home movies" that I am no longer able to quickly distinguish unless I actuallly click the icon. And when I go to iTunes and "get info" they are already categorized as "home movies" (under "options"). My whole family owns everything Apple - but for the past year I have become incresingly frustrated with the functionality of many of their products.
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Sep 24, 2013 6:24 AM in response to MiataMike1by BmoreDiddy,I may have found a solution. I was having the same problem as above and I lost titles to my instructional "videos" when I updated to iOS. I then created a playlist and added my instructional videos to that playlist and now instead of showing as "Movies" in the iPhone app, it shows as "Home Videos" and it lists the name of each file now.
One added benefit to doing it this way, that I see, is that this way it goes from one video to the next in the playlist without my interaction. Which really benefits me when driving which is usually when I'm listening to them.
HTH.
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Sep 24, 2013 10:34 AM in response to Glenn00by Maarten van der Smagt,I agree. This must be a bug. Why? Because Apple would probably not design such an app with so much unused white space between the images with the (iTunes) artwork. (this is me just hoping for a fix if course)
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Sep 24, 2013 11:11 AM in response to MiataMike1by MiataMike1,It is interesting that iTunes unconditionally displays both the icon and the caption for both "Movies" and "Home Videos", whether they have artwork or not. The VIDEOS app Movies and Shared views are the only two that are inconsistent, displaying only the icon.
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Sep 24, 2013 12:27 PM in response to MiataMike1by Glenn00,SOLUTION: Thank you to everyone on this thread to leading me to what I believe is a solution. Here goes: when I updated to IOS7 on my iPad mine, I had a "play list" of movies that I shot with my iPhone. These movies were classified as "home videos" under "get info" (iTunes - click on movie - file - get info - options - media kind - select home video). An earlier poster suggested that the "media kind" had to be set to "home video" and not "movie" for the name of the movie to be displayed under the icon. I thought that was in error, because my movies WERE set to "home video". However, once I plugged my iPad mini into my computer and did a fresh sync with iTunes, the movie names appeared beneith the icon. One poster said the key was to put the movies in a playlist. So I did an experiment. I put some movies in a play list, and some movies I didn't. I synched. ONLY the movies with the "home video" designation displayed the name, whether or not they were in a playlist. Those movies that had designation of "Movie" did not display the name, whether or not they were in a playlist. So I have concluded that the key is the "Home video designation" and a fresh sync with iTunes. Hopes this helps.