Importing home videos for Apple TV

I have home made videos that I had in my Itunes until my drive crashed and I had to replace it. I can not seem to drag and drop the videos from the drive they are located on into Itunes 11. The video does not show up in any of the lists, movie or tv, nor does it show up in the 'search' window when I search for them. They DO however show up in the list of videos to watch online on my apple tv. But here's the problem, cause I dragged and dropped it three times into Itunes 'trying' to import it, the video shows up three times online on the apple tv but no where in the Itunes!!! Now I have the video three times in the apple tv, no way to find the file and no way to delete the extra copies.
Itunes 11 sort of *****.
Any help?
thanks

Try using the Share > iTunes... menu item in iMovie, then sync the movie to Apple TV from iTunes. This is the easiest way of getting an iMovie project onto Apple TV. Is this what you've been doing?

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