home movies won't import

Updated to v12. itunes will not let me add movies ripped with handbrake. What I had was good until I deleted them from itunes thinking it was a clitch and reimporting work. WRONG. I have my movies I got from apple but no home movies icon. Will not let me add any movies i ripped. Its like apple killed of home movies in itunes and will only allow movies from itunes store or from a digital copy that comes with certain movies. *** is going on? About ready to sell my ATV and move over to roku 3. I even tried ripping a fresh movie with ATV3 preset again but it will not import. Any help appreciated. If I have to re rip 500+ movies again to get this to work, the ATV is gone!