iTunes 11: "Movies" vs. "Home Videos"

I know this is an old thread, but I'm pretty sure people are still having this issue as I have had/have. I would like for any movies (*.mp4) that I have on my computer to show up under the "Movies" option on my iPad, so that I could apply the artwork (movie cover) to the movies. I've seen that some people were saying to right click the video you have & click get info > options > media kind, and change the setting home video to movie or movie to home video. Once again I prefer movie for artwork reasons. When I tried this method, it does something to the video that renders it useless. After you have changed the media kind, the video does not play. It will display an "O" and won't play.

Even if I have downloaded (Movie Name - Season X), from the same source/website, which could include multiple mp4 videos, when transferred to the iPad via iTunes, some end up under the movie category and some end up under the home videos category.

I have found that when using iSkysoft Video Converter to re-convert the already mp4 videos to mp4 again, all the videos will now show up under the "movies" tab on the iPad. I still have no idea as to why this needs to be done & I would have thought there would be something that could be changed via "right click" within windows to prevent this problem.

I am currently running Windows 7 x64 and using the latest version of iTunes (12.5.x), but have noticed this issue for as long as I can remember.

I've noticed Apple pinheads are working overtime to discourage people to load their own movies. When you go to the movies tab, you only see what was purchased from the iTunes store. When you add a movie from your own MP4 collection to iTunes, it doesn't show up. But don't be fooled. Apple did let you import it as a file. They just won't tell you or show you.

So whatever movie you imported, go to the search box on top right, and type in the name of the movie. Once you type it in you will find the move is all of a sudden magically displayed, and a new tab is created called "home movies." Well goodness sake, isn't that something????

I don't think the people who design this stuff have to ever actually use it otherwise they wouldn't make it so complicated. Luckily there are a lot of smart people out there that have shared many workarounds. If you have an issue, google it and end it with "apple discussions" and I'll bet you'll find a solution. Just don't go directly to Apple for help. They're SELLING movies, they don't want you to bring your own.

If you have a great many titles, you can also accomplish this in Finder. Both folders - Home Videos and Movies are located in

iTunes/iTunes Music/Home Videos

or

iTunes/iTunes Music/Movies

Simply highlight those files that you want to move from one folder and drag them to the other folder.

Ken

Note that in iTunes 11, it's probably an oversight that you can't target "home videos" in smart playlists.

If you edit a smart playlist and try to target Media Kind is/isn't <type>, the offered types are TV shows, movies, etc. but not home videos. Therefore you can't build smart playlists that specifically target (or don't target) home videos.

Yet. Hopefully they'll fix it in 11.0.1.

It's idiotic. It's completely nonintuitive to correct the mislabeled files via the Get Info menu.

Why not just drag the movies to the 'Home Movies' tab? Must iTunes be incomprehensible?

Thanks for the help Toby; I had the same issues. As bvidc said, it is not "intuitive. This is an easy work around, but I, like others, hope it is seamless in the iTunes 11 udates!

iTunes 11 is just terrible; its nonintuitive. Having to log into apple discussions to answer this question is pathetic. I am embarresed I had to get here. I even had spent time in the get info, but missed the "Options" tab. Thanks to the users to explain this. Where Steve to berate the itunes 11 team?

Thank you - this was the instant solution for multiple files- I had 500+ home movies listed in "movies" - your solution helped me fix it in seconds.

I learned something tonight - if you don't have "Copy files to iTunes Media foler..." chosen, and add a video to iTunes, then you can't change the media kind. So if you are storing videos on an external, good luck!

I'm sure there's a solution to this dilemma, but I don't know what that is right now.

I have MPEG-4 videos under home movies in my itunes on PC. Under get info, options, the choice to change media kind is greyed out Please help. I want to move to movies so that I can sync with ipad

NMdocPV, this could be the case if your movies are located outside your iTunes library folder. (Some people switch off the pref to automatically copy new additions to the iTunes library folder, and they still work in iTunes, but then you can't alter many of their tags.) Perhaps this is the case with you?

for some reason when i add home videos to my music playlist it shows up on the playlist on itunes but when i sync the playlist to my phone the vidoes dont show up in the playlist. is this a software issue or am i doing something wrong never had this problem in till the last itunes update?