iTunes 12 will not allow movies to be added

iTunes 12 is actually better than most other upgrades, things are cleaner and more organized.

All options are still available but things have moved around a bit, especially in the "Get Info" section. IMHO, less confusing, but it takes a moment to get used to the new layout.

@Jesse,

You can still edit shows name & season if you select one file at a time, multiple edits reduces the selection in the "Details" pane.

Overall, after finishing with Handbrake you should all use Subler to populate the .m4v file with accurate metadata. Without Subler most files would default to "Home Videos", but Subler adds all the artwork, description, shows name, season, 720p/1080p info and correct categories.

Try it!

Furthermore, the proper way to add your home-brew files to iTunes is to use the designated "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder.

I keep an alias on my Desktop and every time I finish with Handbrake/Subler I just move 1 or more files into that folder.

Note, iTunes has to be up and running. It will then automatically move the file to the correct position in the library and rename it to conform with the overall structure, eg. /Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Movies/MovieName (1080p HD).m4v or /MovieName (HD).m4v if it's 720p .

You can manually select all the metadata in Subler, but in 99% of all cases use the search function and it will correctly populate the data you need and automatically detect SD, HD or 1080p format.

Hope this calms everybody's nerves 🙂

Fixed Permissions, and re started the computer countless times. No videos will import to iTunes since Yosemite. I have checked each movie, and TV program I wanted to import, all had read-write privileges. I converted all with Wondershare and that always added them to the library before. I even tried dragging the movie to the movie folder and use Control Open, selected them one at a time. Still did not show up in iTunes menu. So now, I have no way to watch my new movies thru my Apple TV.

I have had this problem before. I fixed it by converting it with Wondershare. Why can't Apple have iTunes tell us why it isn't importing a file? Reminds me of 'Syntax Error' in the sixties. The **** computer knew what was wrong, it just wouldn't tell us!

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

It's not about r/w privileges, it's about the metadata flags indicating what type of media it is, provided your movie file complies to mp4 format and it plays in Quicktime.

Test with a known good file and add it to iTunes 12.0.1, if you can't find it in the iTunes' Movies tab, check the "Home Videos" tab. That's where it defaults to.

I have no problems whatsoever with Yosemite & iTunes 12, just that stuff has moved around and a few things behave differently, otherwise all my movies still play and new ones can be added. rtfc!

I can confirm the behavior of iTunes moving movie files into the home movies folder by default. My meta data is set to Movie as kind, but itTunes still puts the movie into the Home Movies section and into a Home Movies folder in the finder. You can fix the former by selecting all, and changing the kind to Movie in the Get Info dialog, but it does not address the later issue of where the files are stored. Even though my files are in the Movie section of iTunes they have not moved in the Finder. This seems strange, first because I used MetaZ to add the correct metadata to these as I add then to previous versions of iTunes. I suspect that Apple has reserved the use of the Movies folder for movies purchased from the iTunes store by default. That's just a theory, though. I would need to buy a movie to test it. Has anyone had this issue?

Hi all,

So I took an iphone6 movie into iMovie on the Mac and exported as a .mov named "ducks" but somehow the metadata for the movie is called "my movie", the file filename in the Finder is "ducks"

I then used Quicktime export to add to iTunes. I could not find my movie called Ducks. When using "date added" to sort, I discovered it was in iTunes as My Movie. ugg.

(Yosemite and iTunes 12.0.1.26)

My issue is that once I have used Handbrake to convert a file to .m4v I want to move it directly to my portable device for mobile viewing. Even though I am able to add the file to my movie collection in iTunes I am unable to load it to the mobile device either directly drag and drop to the device in iTunes or through adding from the library.

Same issue here, cant add mp4 or m4v files all of a sudden 😠

I've was ripping DVD's with Handbrake trying different settings, wondering why they were not importing into iTunes. I cam across this thread and someone

mentioned that iTunes 12 is sticking my ripped movies into the Home Videos Tab under Movies. Low and behold all the movies I ripped and dragged in were there. I'm posting a picture for those of you that need a visual of where the Home Videos tab is. Cheers!

I am having the same problem. Itunes won't accept M4V from my copied DVD's in my personal library. I copied them using hand brake and even used Bigasoft Converter and tried other formats. I have the latest iTunes. What is the fix?

@bassman-md, did you look at the picture I posted, it will accept the Handbrake files, you need to navigate to the "Home Videos" tab within iTunes. I ripped mine using the Universal setting preset under devices and I can play them on any of my iOS devices.

Thanks, didn't work. Tried universal settings. I have an iMac. It worked before I upgraded iTunes. I am trying different setting in Handbrake like Apple TV 2.

Here is a screenshot from iTunes that it works, did you navigate to "Home Videos" to see if anything was in there (pictured above)? I didn't check that area and when I did I found a ton of files I'd been dragging into iTunes under that tab. You can see in the attached image my file was encoded with Handbrake and has the extension ".m4v" I am running iTunes 12.0.1.26. Hope that helps.

You probably just forgot to check "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" & "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" .

ITunes 12 works not much different than 11. Re-read my comments above about Subler !

https://code.google.com/p/sublerI

@bassman-md

Judging by your last response, you didn't follow the advice.

You're focused on the wrong thing. Changing settings in Handbrake has nothing to do with resulting .m4v file's metadata and the ability to add it to iTunes 12.

Universal or any iDevice setting will work and result in a file that will be added to the "Home Movies" tab.

Again, I suggest to use Subler to auto-populate the metadata after using Handbrake, then adding it to iTunes by dropping the file into the

"iTunes Media folder location"/Automatically Add to iTunes folder.

Thanks work like a charm.

Bassman-md

I have not been able to make this work. I am on a PC but tried "automatically add", drag and drop and file>add file to library.

None of these are working for me. They are not showing up in "home videos" where the rest of my movies are - but I can see it if I navigate directly to my drive outside of itunes. It was converted using handbrake