New Media Kind = Home Video

iTunes 11 has made changes to the classification of Videos.
A new Media Kind classification includes Home Video. However the smart playlist does not include this as a selectable option. I have submitted feedback to Apple on this point.
Anyone know how this can be worked around?

You could move the video to a different location.
Select the video in Home Videos > Control-click > Get info > Options > Media Kind.
Hope that helps

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Saving Media Kind, Position & Shuffling in ID3 Metadata for MP3 Audiobooks?

Hello, I have a problem saving "media kind" - audioboks as file metadata independent of iTunes.
I recently purchased an iPhone however I am pretty apathetic to iTunes - I use it as my only media player at the moment because of the iPhone, however I want my collection to work with whatever software I use now as well as whatever platform I use 10 years from now, hence my dependence on 3rd party tools to save metadata. iTunes has it's own nice little database but I do not want to be at the whim of this database everytime I want to transfer files to another computer, or in the event of a catastrophic data failure. I have already witnessed this with album art, where I add art in iTunes but it does not save the art in the actual mp3 file.
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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."
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I am trying to synch home video with my new iPhone 5, but I cannot, despite they are MPEG-4

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