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!

Had to move itunes to another computer along with hard drive with all my movies to get it to work again. Still don't know why as I tried allot of different things with no fixes.

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