My ipad VIDEOS app doesn't show the movie Names with IOS 7

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

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.

Maddening, isn't it. The only reasonable solution for you at the moment, is to go to iTunes, and put into a playlist all the movies you want to import onto your iPad. Then, change each movie to a "Home Movie". I know this is a pain - and you shouldn't have to do it at all. But at least there is a solution that should take you less than 2 minutes for a dozen or so movies.

I reclassified my movies as "Home Videos" and they now show up with titles on my iPad under the heading "Home Videos". Very time consuming as it must be done individually with each movie in your iTunes library. What a mess!

I solve my problem by adding an Artwork on each video.
A picture (jpg) of 667 pixels by 1000 pixels do the work great for you iPad and also AppleTV.
You can alway make a screen capture that say it all and apply it to your video.
To add the Artwork, just choose the movie in iTune and get the «info» (cmd-i)

and go to the Artwork tab.

Hope this help other.

P.S. Beware : When I upgraded my iPad to iOS7,
iTunes turned off my home sharing on my computer.

As has been noted, there is no longer any textual depiction of the names of movies, within a home shared library, on the iPad. There is another option for those who manage their video library on a Mac and share by way of home sharing. In iTunes, on you serving Mac, select and start to play a movie. Somewhere during the first couple of minutes (usually, but there are exceptions, such as The Tree of Life in which the title isn't presented until mid-credits at the end), the name of the movie will be displayed. Fast forward to this point if you wish. Pause the playback. Within the frame presenting the movie, Control - Click to bring down the contextual menu. The bottom choice is Set Poster Frame. The Poster frame is the frame of the movie that is shown in the iPad video list. However, there may be a better way, especially if the title graphice is small. Again, reach the title frame and pause, but this time take a screen shot (Command-Shift-4). Get Info for the movie at hand, and proceed to the Artwork tab. Drag the screen shot into the artwork space, and there you have your title image for the iPad.

Many cannot understand how Apple seems to screw up these things that are so essential to smooth use. I highly suspect that Apple's Product managers are engineers, within an engineering group. Truly effective product management is a marketing function - it is the marketing folk, those closer to the consumers, who should be writing the commercial specifications for these product, which includes user interfaces and product functrionality. Too many people think of marketing as sales. Marketing involves product concept, superficial design, cost parameters, and much much more before the engineers get to do their magic of making the product that marketing has defined as what the marketplace wants.

Hello all,

I think I have found the solution.mat least it works for me. After fiddling around it appears that if you set your movies to 'music video's', the video titles do appear on your iDevice.

On your iDevice click on shared to 'pick up' your iTunes library. The click on music videos and all your movies including their titles appear.

Here's a workaround to show up film titles via home sharing on an iPad:

Highlight all videos, right click and open "Get Info".

Change Media Kind to "Music Video"

All the films disappear from the Films section, but are visible by going to Music, and clicking on Music Videos in the top bar.

All the titles appear in the Videos app on iPad os 7.

Not perfect, but workable.

Scott I too updated to IOS7.1 to find no fix.

But I am using a OSX app "Air Media Server" that stream Video, pictures and music to iphones and ipads. Works great. I installed it on my server where all my movies are, I pointed it at the folder the movies are in , ( Same folder as the iTunes home share is using ). Costs about $5.The ipad app is free. It is called "Media Center" http://www.airmediacenter.com . I still need itunes and home sharing to watch my movies on my Apple TV's, but this streaming server app takes care of my iPads.

Apple is going down hill. The one thing they were good at was making all their stuff work together.

There is this problem AND also "Airdrop" which does not work from Mac's to ipads. FYI " Instashare " works well between Mac to ipads.

MiataMike1 wrote:

Artwork can be found and loaded under Windows by:

- going to http://images.google.com

- search for <movie name> MOVIE POSTER

- click on the thumbnail you like

- right-click the big image and click on SAVE IMAGE AS

- bring up iTunes

- right-click the movie in iTunes and click on GET INFO

- select the ARTWORK tab

- click the ADD button

- select the file you just downloaded from Google

It's a PITA but once it's done it's done.

I was looking for a batch way to do it - 😢

I have found a workaround by changing file type to "music video." This will work when using home sharing. The files will show up in iphone under videos app>home sharing>music videos as a list.

It makes the appleTV a little more clumsy, they show up under music>music videos>all

Note that the files will move in itunes to music>music videos. I thought itunes had deleted them all when I did a batch change!

Hope this helps.

Good Morning, I know this post is over a year old, but I'd like to offer you the solution that worked for me.

First of all, I'm using a PC.

On my PC, I have all my videos in one place with TV Shows, Movies, and other videos in there respective subfolders.

I downloaded a Tagging software called "MP3Tag" from CNET.

Although it's title suggest otherwise, it will work for MP4's as well! I opened the software and imported all of my Movies and TV Shows.

There is a side bar that shows the information of the file you've clicked on. At the bottom of this sidebar, there is place to add Artwork.

Now, I open my web browser and go to this site: http://bendodson.com/code/itunes-artwork-finder/. I type the name of the TV Show or Movie and it gives me the artwork. I then drag and drop that into the "Album Art" field of the file that's still highlighted in MP3Tag. I know this seems like a lot, but it's well worth it for a clean looking ipad movie library! Please give it a shot. If you have a lot of videos, it will indeed take a while the first time. But eventually, you'll only be doing one movie or tvshow at a time...as you acquire it!

Go to ur itunes library, highlight all movies , get info , options , change to home movies. This way u just get a list when u resync ur ipad , iphone under home movies.