Music Video tag

Happy Holidays all !!
I have about 1200 ripped music videos. 500 or so of them show up as movies in iTunes.
A upgrade in the software I used allowed me to tag the content music videos,but all previous music videos are showing up as movies. Before I manually change them (which is slow and one at a time) my question is:
"Is there a way to change multiple movie files to music videos?"
Thanks!
Mike

I guess the answer is "Nothing in iTunes". Seems like a good idea for Apple, just like playing a playlist or shuffling Music Videos in the Apple TV box.
I downloaded Lostify & Parsley. Parsley can do multiple files. Thanks.
Both pieces of software have their strengths.
HNY,
Mike

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