ITunes Home Movies Library working, but INCONVENIENT

I'm on iTunes 12.0.1.26, and up to date on all my Mac OS software.
I collect still photos from the web, and hold them in topical folders.   From time to time, I use Graphic Converter to "Export Slide Show to Movie", which does an acceptable job of preparing quicktime .movs that allow me to "run" the topical slideshows as movies, without needing to to manually operate any slideshow controls.   I then ADD the .movs to my iTunes Home Videos Library, where I can use iTunes' "Create New Version" to convert them to MPEG-4 formats that seem to be needed for loading to my iPhone and iPad.   I'm enjoying the results, but the whole process is tedious, particularly when I view the "Home Videos Library".   iTunes just DOES NOT IDENTIFY the format of the various copies of the movies that I end up with.   There's an icon image of a still photo in the movie in .mov format, another identical image for the movie in .mp4 or .m4v, and that's fine but I must laboriously "Get Info" on each movie to determine the actual format of each.   And I end up guessing which copy of a movie to send to the ios devices when I manually sync. Why can't iTunes help more by, like, just SHOWING the format information underneath the icon of each movie?
Maybe I'm doing all this the hard way.   Can anyone suggest a better method?
Just in general, does anyone feel like iTunes itself has just grown so much functionality that it's increasing hard to understand and use?   It started off as a little music player, but has grown into not only the whole store thing and the whole cloud thing and the whole books and movies and tv shows thing, but also practically a separate OPERATING SYSTEM for managing iOS device content. It now feels all bloaty and unintuitive and multi-step and clunky to me, which is not like most other Apple software.
AND I'm about to submit this question to the iTunes for Mac Community, but this support interface demands that I choose from a limited set of Categories, none of which remotely relates to my question.
Thanks for any response!
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Assuming you restarted iTunes from your comments.
It doesn't seem very prevalent but several users including myself have had issues with being Home Sharing in recent months - a library lists under computers but cannot be accessed until I restart itunes. I am also seeing similar issues Home Sharing from one Mac to another when it just seems to hang.
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