No Home Videos Option on Apple TV

When I click on Computers, I used to see Home Videos, where I have around 200 rips, and converted VHS etc. However, since the latest iTunes update, this option has vanished and with it my access to these files, except they remain on iTunes.
I have searched and learned by selecting the get info on each file and changing the category to Movie, that I can access them there, but I liked the Home Videos option and it'll take a long time to move them all individually. I can't see that anyone has suffered the same problem lately.
Does anyone know whats going on or why this may have happened?
Its worth saying I am on version 12.0.0.117 of iTunes and up to date on ATV, have tried resets etc and having the trouble with two ATV's. I am running the Beta of Yosemite on my Mac that holds everything. Connections are hard wired through my router and I have no issues with all the other ATV functions.
Thanks in advance for any help.

I discovered this same problem the other day after updating to the Yosemite PB3. I updated my ATV in hopes that would fix the problem but it's still not working for me. However, thank you very much for the suggestion of changing the category to Movie. Not a solution but a definite positive workaround.

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As I have said I have some home movies stored under Movies >Home Videos and yesterday I was talking with my duaghter-in-law about whether it would be possible to share this with her Ipad but couldn't come up with anyway to do that. I looked at Dropbox and Instashare but they don't, as far as I can see, allow me to access my home videos, they only seem to work with camera roll and purchased movies.
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