Cannot import movies in iTunes 11

I have exactly the same problem now, what is in your opinion this story related to? ... and why do you think we need now to wait 15mn to ensure it works (What is this home movie folder, don't understand). Usually any movie I owned could be moved / dragged directly into iTune and it would appear immediately. Is it a bug or a feature?

It took much longer than 15 minutes, but the same thing happend with my imported videos, they just showed up.

I waited like a whole day and it still isn't showning up 😟

Try this. Start up Itunes. Click on Home Movies Videos in the movies section. If you have a movie her, right button click and select "Get Info". On the options tab, change the media kind to movie and select OK. Your other movies will slowly start to appear!

I have the exact same problem. Exactly. You described it perfectly.

One bug I found which can cause this is extra "dots" in the file name. I had trouble importing a file named "show.S01.E02.mp4". If I rename the file "showS01E02.mp4" it imports fine.

Computers are weird. I know better than download software called 11.0. When will I learn to wait for 11.01? I guess I like punnishment.

Hi Lachmand- Your solution was perfect. Worked brilliantly for me. Thanks so much!

I had this problem too but I think I have found the source of the problem.

After I imported some movies I noticed the iCloud icon (next to the Library selection popup) was showing continous activity. This made me suspect the problem was something to do with iCloud syncing.

I went to iTunes Preferences -> Store and unchecked Sync Playback information across devices and my recently imported movies immediately showed up in the list.

I do not like having them seperate like this. I wish they kept movies as all movies vs seperating it out like this! If you change to list view in 11 as well you will all the movies regardless of the category they are assigned to. I like the overall look and feel of the new iTunes but do not like this option. IMO "Movies" should show all and if you want to drill out different "categories" that option is still there.

Anyways, thanks for the tip all...I had one movie imported like seven times until I was able to locate it LOL. I am surprised that I was never asked if I wanted to replace the existing file.

Great idea about the "Recently Added" Smart PlayList, but my version of 11.0.1 iTunes doesn't have such a Smart PlayList.

I have waited the now-famous "15 Minutes," but nothing has shown up. No error message in iTunes to let you know what is happening is, in my opinion, a clear violation of the Apple GUI.

It discourages me mightily that Apple's standards are slipping so badly.

Make a recently added playlist by creating a new smart playlist and setting the criteria

Date Added in the last 1 days

I use the interim step of using Subler to tag all my movies correctly. Click Save and then Send to itunes. Because the tags are expicitly set then movies or TV Shows always show up in the right place.

Thanks, Steve. I now have a "Recenty Added" SmartList. But the m4v file that I've asked iTunes to Add to Library doesn't show up in the new SmartList. When I search the iTunes Library, the requested m4v file is simply not there. When I drag the file into the iTunes Library open to Home Videos, the window is outlines in blue (just as normally when you add a file), a green plus sign appears next to the dragged icon, and then absolutely nothing happens.

I'm moving from discouraged to disgusted. Do you have any other ideas?

Tim