iTunes: Change Video from Movies to TV Shows

Contributor Icon Contributed by davak Date Icon October 23, 2007  
Tag Icon Tagged: Music

Most ripped videos will come into iTunes into the Movies category. This tutorial will show you how to change the category so it will appear correctly in your iPhone, iPod, or AppleTV.


No matter the original source, it seems that almost all videos are placed into the Movies category by iTunes. When trying to view the clips in an iTunes synced device, this is painful.

Luckily, the fix is pretty easy.

First you need to open the Get Info dialog box in iTunes. You can do this in multiple ways:

– Right-click (ctrl-click) on the file and select Get Info
– Select the file and click CMD+I
– Select the file and click Get Info from the File menu

From the dialog box that opens hit the Video tab.

Under the Video Kind dropdown box, select TV Show

Click OK to finish.

In the above example, my MASH rip will now be listed under my TV Shows in my iPhone and AppleTV.

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  • thanks
    thanks mate thats really helpful :)
  • TallCool1
    I don't see a "Video Kind" selection in my iTunes 8.0.1.
  • M1llerNo1
    go onto options instead of "video"... it should be about half way down :)
  • Steve
    In iTunes 8 it is under the options tab and instead of "Video Kind" it is called "Media Kind".
  • MrMan
    Thanks! I was looking for it too. Now able to select multiple items, whereas before had to do it one at a time.
  • FREEDOM
    thanks that helped alot
    nvm to my previous post
  • Brilliant! This was really bugging me. Thanks mate!
  • Luke
    When I try and add a video file e.g. avi it simply doesnt appear in itunes and therefore i cannot click on the get info part of the file as i cannot get it appearing in the library in the first place. Any ideas? Thanks
  • blah
    best to find an "ipod video converter". there are tons free ones on the internet and they will convert different video file types to .mp4, which is the file type you need it in
  • Chris
    How do you do this on the latest itunes?? I followed the steps above and it doesn't come up with the drop down menu box. please help!?? Chris
  • FREEDOM
    I did that for all my videos in the movies section. after that i updated /installed the newest version of iTunes. now that video kind option is not available. what do i do?
    or how do i downgrade my iTunes then?
  • Nicola
    To Luke, Itunes only accepts .Mp4 or .mov, not .avi you need to convert it * try Videora*

    To Chris and Freedom,
    As Someone ^ Up There Kindly Said,
    1, Right-Click Info
    2, Instead of Video, Click the Options Tab
    3, Media Kind, Select from the Drop Down List TV Show :)

    Hope That Helped
  • Mat
    hi all, I'm using a pc version of itunes, and my videos are loading as mp4's but appearing in the music list. Get info shows them as video, but itunes only plays them as music.
    Can't seem to get this to work for me at all....can anyone help?
  • redrum
    thanks for clearing things up Nicola!
  • Yano
    thanks it really helped :)
  • Stevie Wonder
    Man you are a lifesaver!!!
  • AJ
    ty so much saved me a lot of time
  • sara
    YOU ARE AMAZING! GOT MA STUFF ORGANISED SO QUICK! & THANKS SO MUCH TO NICOLA FOR THE UPDATED itunes version WAY TOO. =)
  • Name
    This Didn't work on my version. ( winXP, iTunes 8.0.2.20 )

    I had to find this same option under: ( yes i know this has been posted before )
    Get info>Option>Media Kind.

    I thought only Microsoft moved things around to confuse users.
  • danniiminoguefan
    Thanx
    ive been trying for ages to do this!
    this has really helped!!
  • katehillyard
    Thank you. That works perfectly for a Mac, but it's not much different for a PC. Instead, you simply hit the "options" button when the pop-up appears & click the media type drop-down menu to change it to "TV Show". Thank you, again!
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