ITunes Video Folder-Not friendly

Seems that iTunes videos and podcasts only works well with files that were downloaded from iTunes Music store. I would like to add videos that I already have on my computer to the Music Video Category of my library. My own video files will fit into the Movies window but not the Music Video category, but I wish that it wasnt as rigid. Any idea of how to get by this?

I would imagine that you can set a movie clip to be either 'music video' or 'movie' as you would be able to legally own either of those anyway. For example, many cds come with a music video as a bonus. You could copy that to you iTunes library and therefore want to set it to be a 'music video'.
The same is true for any home movies you may have made - as you would want to tell iTunes that they were movies (and therefore not music videos).
However, I guess that as you're not officially supposed to have tv-shows floating around on the computer that Apple have decided you have no reason to need an option to tell iTunes it is a tv-show. This is perhaps a little naive of Apple, but I guess they're just playing by the rules really. Your tv-shows will work find being a 'movie', so I guess that's where they'll have to stay.
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