Change info for multiple videos at once

I am a mac newb, just got my mac book pro and am trying to learn and get things set up. I have my media on a NAS (Qnap 451) and have added my existing videos to my library (without copying them locally to my library), and of course they show up as home videos. I know how you are supposed to change the
info for multiple files, I select them all and choose get info and change the options tab to Movie. When I do that nothing happens at all, I can do the files one at a time and they change fine, but if I even select just two files it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Well an update in case any one else had this issue. I don't know why but it only works if I choose Movie, then before choosing OK I switch to a different tab like the artwork tab and then back to the options tab. No idea why that would have any effect on it.

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Please can someone help? I was so full of hope when moving from Windows to the Mac but my hope is rapidly turning to despair.
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did not mean to do that as use of 3rd party scripts should not be necessary for such a core function in itunes
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