Movies vs home videos

I am currently using iTunes 12 on my early Intel Power Mac. I have a lot of movies in my iTunes collection. It used to be that iTunes put them in "movies." Now it puts them in "home videos." Why did it change? Is there any way to transfer movies from one to the other? Having two separate libraries is a pain.

Select the item in iTunes, right-click and get info. Go to the options tab and from the media kind pull-down menu. Note: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3708074 - it may be necessary to turn off other services such as Match.

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Is there a way to make Movies and Home Videos show up in different sections on the apple tv instead of showing the home videos mixed in with the movies?

I have several movies and home videos stored in itunes, when viewing these on appletv, it mixes all the movies and home videos together.
I would like to beable to select either Movies or Home Videos when viewing on the Apple TV if this is possible...?

You have 2 options:
1. Create Video Playlists in iTunes (for example create one for Home movies, the other for Movies)
You COULD make these Smart Playlists. (see below for one technique)
NOTE: If you wish to do this don't miss the preference in Settings to enable Video Playlists at least (at least in the latest ATV updates) I believe it's under Audio setting. Amazingly the default is NOT to show!! (had me going for quite a bit)
2. Set up your Home Movies as "Music Videos" This has some gotchas: like you'll probably want to choose the skip when shuffiling, also Now they'll appear in music lists. The only advantage to this is that it makes playlists more available on iOS devices since there are no Playlists displayed in the Videos App.... (yeah Apple's made this WAY confusing of late)
If you wish to keep these clearly defined (especially for use with Smart Playlists.
Select the movie
Get Info (Edit Menu) (or Command-I Mac, Control-I, PC)
Choose the "Video" Tab - you can select your desired type from the Media Kind pop up.
Alternate method for setting up smart playlist of home movies would be to set the Genre to "Home Movie"
Probably more than you needed to know - leigh

HOW DO I MOVE HOME MADE VIDEOS THAT ARE IN MOVIES TO HOME VIDEO...

HOW DO I MOVE HOME MADE VIDEOS THAT ARE IN MOVIES TO HOME VIDEO. THIS PROBLEMS OCCURS IN WIN XP PRO OR MAC 10.6.8 CAN'T COPY AND PASTE, CAN'T IMPORT OR ADD TO LIBRARY; CAUSE IT IS ALREADY IN LIBRARY. I NOTICE THAT THESE SIMILAR ISSUES HAVE BEEN POSTED SINCE DEC 2012 AND NO ONE AND APPLY HAS NOT ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS. ANY IDEAS?!?!

Due to Hotmail Live being POP based there is limitations on it. Not much can be done to get these folders on iPhone till Hotmail Live switches to an IMAP format.
Posted below is the link to the Hotmail blog with what's coming etc. This is ran by Microsoft. So might be your best resource and place to try and reach them to submit feedback.
http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/comingsoon/en-us/default.htm

IPad Video app mixes Movies and Home Video Kinds

In iTunes I have videos that are of 'Video Kind' Movie and also 'Video Kind' Home Video. These show up nicely on the AppleTV, segregated according to their "Kind". On my iPad Air, however, the Video app mixes them all together under its heading of "Movies" when I use Home Sharing to access my iTunes Library from the iPad.
How can I get my Home Videos to be distinguished from my Movies on the iPad?
(And, is there any way to have the title show up on the thumbnail page? In combination I have thousands of shows and it's hard to tell what's what!)

Hello Brian,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you’re running into an issue playing iTunes Store content on your iPad Air, and you’ve already tried restarting the device and syncing the movies a second time. If you haven’t already, try backing up and restoring the device as shown in the article linked below.
Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings - Apple Support
Cheers,
-Jason

How do I move my home videos to Movies from the TV Shows category in iTunes?

In itunes on my iMac, most, but not all, of my home videos and homemade slide shows have been saved in the TV shows directory rather than the movies directory. I've tried to move them to the movies directory in iTunes, but they won't be moved. How can I move them, and then have the moves reflected on my iPad?

Select the shows in your TV Shows library. You can select several adjacent shows at once by holding the shift key. If they are not adjacent, hold the command key and click on each. Open the Multiple Item Info window (File menu > Get Info or type commamd + I). Select the "Options" tab. Check media kind and use the adjacent menu to select Movie. Cloick "OK" to save your changes. The shows should automatically move to the Movies library.

How do I move a home video to movies

I ripped some dvd's and they transfered to Home Video instead of Movie. When I sync my class ipod does not have a Home Video selection, so the movies does not show. This Home Video is new to me. HELP

See:
iTunes: Frequently asked questions about viewing and syncing videos
iTunes: May be unable to transfer videos to iPhone, iPad, or iPod
I use the free HandBrake converter program.

Moving home videos to the ipad

how do you import a home video on a laptop to the ipad? When dragged to the itunes folder nothing happens.

What you have done is to add the movie to Itunes on the computer not your iPad
To get it on your iPad either Click on the Device name to the left of the Itunes Store Button. Or enable the Sidebar View > Show Sidebar in the main menu and then click on your device
On the right hand side will be the Device Sync pages. Select Movies ( Movies and Home Videos should appear together) choose the movie you want to go onto the ipad and click Apply bottom right.

Can't sync home videos to iPad "itunes 11"

Since updating to iTunes 11 I can't sync any of my home videos from my Win 7 PC to my iPad 3.
1. I created them as MP4's.
2. They import to iTunes music folder fine.
3. They show in iTunes under home videos.
4. No error during or after sync, but the videos are not there on the iPad. Videos I put on the iPad before iTunes 11 are there (under movies, not home video) and play fine. But if I delete it from the iPad and then try to put it back it is ignored and will not go back onto the iPad.
This worked fine before iTunes 11.
Mark

I also found, finally, that selecting "manually manage" for the device on the summary page in iTunes for the helped.

Where are Home Videos on Apple TV?

iTunes has in Movies a separate category of Home Videos.
But when I try to view Movies through Apple TV that category does not appear so I have had to put all the home movies in the same section as commercial movies dowmloaded from the iTunes store. It is not a major problem but it would be good to separate out the home movies in Apple TV.
Any ideas?
Thank you

In iTunes. Select "Movies" from menu on the left. Options along the middle are:
Unwatched Movies Genres Home Videos List
In Apple TV one can select between seeing only Unwatched or all Movies.
I cannot idenify a category of Home Videos.
Thank you

The iTunes11 "Home Video" debacle white paper

The "stik" atom is a value within an mpeg file indictes the type of video it is (Movie, TVShow, MusicVideo, HomeVideo, etc). The stik atom has used both the value 0 and 9 for movies. It seems that the value 0 was deprecated a while back, but prior to iTunes11, value of 0 still defaulted to a movie. It seems that value 0 has now been (in iTunes11) re-defined to indicate a new catagory called "Home Video."
When you first drag or add an encode into iTunes, iTunes reads this atom value from the file. If iTunes sees a 9 then iTunes considers it a Movie. If it sees a 0 (or no stik atom) then it considers it a Home Video and sorts the encode into the "Home Videos" tab.
Many tagging/encoding softwares (like MetaZ/MetaX) have historically written the value 0 to the stik atom when the user assigned the type "Movie" to the encode. This wasn't a problem before iTunes11. But now it is. All encodes that were tagged with MetaZ contain a stik of 0 for movies, and thus will group them as Home Videos when dragged into iTunes11. If the encodes were already in iTunes' library when you updated to iTunes11, they will remain grouped as movies, unless you remove them from your library and re-add them. Then they will appear as Home Videos. This is because iTunes only reads the stik atom once, when the encode is added to the library. After an encode is added, you might change the Type in iTunes "get info", but iTunes does not write a new Stik to the file, it only updates its internal database. Thus you may have a lot of encodes which iTunes will continue to consider Movies for now, but by file specification, they are now Home Videos.. and if you rebuild your library for some reason, you'll wind up with a load of Home Videos.
(MetaZ has been updated as of v1.0a13, 04-Dec-2012 and now writes a value of 9 to the atom for movies.)
A solution proposed by many on this forum to the problem of mis-categorized encodes is using iTunes' GetInfo tab to change encodes' type from Home Video to Movie, or vice versa. As I mention above, iTunes does not write this change to the file, only to iTunes' internal database. So iTunes' definition of the file differs from the file's own self-identity. Smart!
Another oddity is that the AppleTV GUI (as of 5.1.1) does not offer the same Home Video grouping that iTunes11 does. On the AppleTV, both types are displayed merged as Movies in the movie list. So it seems that Itunes11 catagorization has departed importantly from iOS.
You should also be aware that as of this date, although iTunes' GUI now differentiates between Movies and Home Videos, iTunes applescript interface does not seem to have been updated. When using Applescript to determine the type of an encode, a Home Video will be returned as a Movie.
Using Applescript to set the video kind (type) does not seem to coax iTunes to write to the file either, only its internal database.

Hi Jan,
I've one remark regarding the way you have implemented your CompareDatesRule.
In the SRDemo, the implementation is different.
When I try to follow the steps described in 6.1.2.1.3, I got a completely different generated class that looks more that what has been done in the SRdemo.
My generated validation class implements JboValidatorInterface (which is not exactly what is done in SRDemo !) and not JbiValidator as your code show.
Could you comment on the pros and cons of each approach please ?
Thanks,
Seb.
PS : I've found the following on Steve Muench's blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0118231/stories/2004/10/20/creatingAReusableDateRangeValidationRule.html
which rather goes your way. Since SRDemo is more recent, is it an indication of the orientation taken by the ADF BC validation APIs ?

Home Video - is there an ID Tag?

Now that IOS 7 exhibits different behaviors based on whether the video is a 'movie' or 'home video', is there an ID tag in the MP4 file that I can set to insure it is imported/added to the iphone with the correct setting?

or an tv-series as well
I have all movies stored on the macminiserver with all fileinformation done properly on the server through iTunes (Covers, Type (movie, tv-series etc.) - but, when my macbookpro's itunes is importing the files (available through file-sharing from the server) all this info seems to be gone - especially tags like is it a tv-series, a home-movie, a movie etc.

I'm using Windows 8. I have 2 folders in my videos library - movies and personal videos. When I try to import a movie into iTunes, it puts it in the Home Video section and if I import a personal video, it puts it into the home video section. what up?

Im using Win8. I originally had all my ripped movies in a movie folder listed in the videos library. This imported into iTunes movies with no issue. I later added a second folder t my library - personal videos where i put all my home videos. I was able to import this into iTunes and it showed up in "Home Movies" - very cool and exactly what I wanted. Now, if I add a new ripped movie and put it in my movie librairy and try to import it into iTunes, it places it in Home Movies. And if I put a new personal video, it will also import into iTunes under 'Home Video?. What is going on here?? Any help would be greatly appreciated - it seems like this is a bug in iTunes 11.

I thank you for the response. Apple does some assinine things sometimes and this is one of them. Ask the planet the difference between a movie and a home video and with the exception of Apple, you'd get 100% consenus on the what difference is. A home video is something that I shoot, like my kids birthday party. A movie is something I urchased either via download or a DVD that I ripped. Unbelievable! The fact that Apple has chosen not to distinguish based upon which folder I tell it is Movies and which folder is Home Videos is really hard to fathom - sounds like something Windows would do. I find it funny that in my iTunes movies sub-section of the movies section, the movie icons have a cloud icon in upper right corner to distinguish it as bought from Apple iTunes versus no cloud icon for movies that I have ripped - so the distintion was already made and clearly visible. Now - everything just defaults to "home videos" if I try to import a new ripped DVD - why even bother to have this distinction on the iTunes bar? WOW!
As for your direction, I do not understand what you are telling me - what Media Kind and what Options tab are you referring to? I see no Options tab in iTunes. Right licking on the movie icon does not yield media kind or options as well. Gping to the source file does not yield these options either.
Thanks again for your help.
Clay

How do you move or can I move Itune folders (Movies), (TV Shows) and (Home Videos) to other internal hard drives (running out of space) on my computer's main hard drive and have Itunes recongize where they are?

I built my own computer which has 4 internal hard drives with 3 internal hard drives that are 3tb. With my movies and tv shows, I need to know if I can move the Itunes folders (Movies, TV shows and Home Video's) and move each one of them to 3 seperate internal hard drives while Itunes can still find them to play with my apple tv. Does anyone know how I can do it?

While you can do that, it is not a feature of iTunes. Put your movies on the external drive, then add them to iTunes by dragging the files to iTunes while holding the option (alt) key down so it leaves the files where they are located. There are other ways to move them if they are already added but they can be more involved and tricky. If it's just one or two try: http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=relocateselected

How do I get home video clips from iMovie Mac to iMovie iPad? Surely there is some degree of cross-compatibility? I have a load of clips in iMovie on my MBP that I wanna download to my iPad2 so that I can edit movies on the move. Any ideas?

How do I get home video clips from iMovie Mac to iMovie iPad? Surely there is some degree of cross-compatibility? I have a load of clips in iMovie on my MBP that I wanna download to my iPad2 so that I can edit movies on the move. Any ideas? (The clips are in a .mov format, they have been imported / converted into this format in iMovie, original files were from a JVC camcorder in some other strange format.)

I copied the iTunes file from the external drive and it's in both places. I thought all I would need is the iTunes program (which I downloaded to new computer) and my iTunes library file. There must be something else that's missing. My iTunes library looks the same on the new computer as it does when I open it on the external drive. If I click on an iTunes library song from my new computer, it will only play if I have the external drive plugged in.
My back-up drive is a mess. I have multiple copies of music, video, photo, and document files and I don't know how that happened. ={ Obviously, I don't know how to back up stuff properly and there are back-up files extending over a 6- to 8-year period. I think all I did was just drag and drop the main folders from the back-up drive to the same main folders on the C: drive. Also (and I'm kind of fuzzy on this) Windows used to automatically save music files in a folder within my document files (which makes no sense to me). As my Jewish friends would say, "Oy Vey!"

For itunes 11: movie that are not purchased via itunes are loaded into and catagorized as "home videos". I want all of my movies in one spot under Movies as they always were. How can i tweak this?

for itunes 11: movie that are not purchased via itunes are now loaded into and catagorized as "home videos". I want all of my movies in one spot under Movies as they always were. How can i tweak/resolve this?

Cdaver wrote:
I have this issue too and want the same result, another feed suggests selecting the movie, going to get info, and changing this under options, but I suppose you have to do that movie by movie.
You can select all the movies you want and change them at once.

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