iTunes: Change Video from Movies to TV Shows
Contributed by David Kirk 
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. This technique works in all versions of iTunes including 8, 9, and 10.
Editors note: This technique continues to work for the most recent version of iTunes.
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.
thanks said on October 25, 2008
thanks mate thats really helpful :)
TallCool1 said on November 19, 2008
I don’t see a “Video Kind” selection in my iTunes 8.0.1.
Steve said on December 3, 2008
In iTunes 8 it is under the options tab and instead of “Video Kind” it is called “Media Kind”.
MrMan said on December 12, 2008
Thanks! I was looking for it too. Now able to select multiple items, whereas before had to do it one at a time.
Luke said on December 22, 2008
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
Chris said on December 23, 2008
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
M1llerNo1 said on December 26, 2008
go onto options instead of “video”… it should be about half way down :)
FREEDOM said on January 1, 2009
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?
FREEDOM said on January 1, 2009
thanks that helped alot
nvm to my previous post
Nicola said on January 25, 2009
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 said on February 1, 2009
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 said on February 3, 2009
thanks for clearing things up Nicola!
Yano said on February 25, 2009
thanks it really helped :)
Stevie Wonder said on March 12, 2009
Man you are a lifesaver!!!
AJ said on April 5, 2009
ty so much saved me a lot of time
sara said on April 17, 2009
YOU ARE AMAZING! GOT MA STUFF ORGANISED SO QUICK! & THANKS SO MUCH TO NICOLA FOR THE UPDATED itunes version WAY TOO. =)
blah said on April 19, 2009
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
Michael said on May 7, 2009
Brilliant! This was really bugging me. Thanks mate!
Name said on July 24, 2009
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.
Anonymous said on August 4, 2009
Thanx
ive been trying for ages to do this!
this has really helped!!
Anonymous said on August 26, 2009
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!
Anonymous said on January 7, 2010
THANKYOU.
I will use to se my The Owl collection to TV Shows and change some Music Videos too.
Anonymous said on February 10, 2010
in 9.0.3 for XP Pro, I selected several TV shows in my movies and did this.. they disappeared from movies and nothings in my TV shows still… where did they go?
Anonymous said on March 12, 2010
This was really helpful for me. Thanks pal
K311y said on May 18, 2010
but in my computer, when i clicked on get info and went to video, it didn’t have video kind, options, or media kind. it just shows season number, episode ID etc.
LH said on June 20, 2010
it worked thanks!, but i selected multiple files and they were put under one big album, now how can i deselece this or put them separate?
jimmyselix said on June 20, 2010
you will need to go into the Get Info and then Video tab.
Change the Show to your liking and it will Group by Show. You can also add season number and episode number / title here too. :)
jimmyselix said on June 20, 2010
Go to the Options tab. :)
Austin James said on June 26, 2010
Thank you so much this was starting to bug me
Jacqueline dang said on June 26, 2010
What if the Info is all greyyed out?
Granttt said on July 8, 2010
How do you put the episodes in order when you have them in the same show:)?
jimmyselix said on July 8, 2010
check to see if the file is 1) in use by an application at the moment besides itunes or 2) the file is not set to be Read-Only (right-click on file – properties, general tab and at bottom).
hope that helps!
jimmyselix said on July 8, 2010
there are a few ways and depends on what device your viewing them.
the first way is to use the season and episode fields in the Get Info > Video tab. This will sort them in order of season and then episdoe. Also will do the same on an iPad or iPhone/iPod too.
Or you can insert the ep number in the title as another way to sort.
peace
toriaa said on July 25, 2010
this didn’t work. there is no video kind on my itunes
Oliver said on August 20, 2010
there is one problem with that. you can set “media kind” and all other info such as season number, description, etc., and all that info is preserved if you delete the file out of iTunes and then import it back in… except for media kind. try it for your self.
media kind info is not preserved if you delete and re-import, but all other tags are. not sure why. I have searched all over the web for a solution and can’t find one. the funny thing is, if I purchase a TV show from iTunes, then change the media kind to Movie, then delete it and re-import it, it goes right back to TV Show. somehow there is a way to pre-embed the media kind into the file, but by simply changing it in the info window, media kind is not saved.
Dan said on August 29, 2010
how do you split up movies into parts?
Harry Clarke said on September 25, 2010
The new version of itunes (this is true for windows), there is a tab called options where the selection is listed instead of video.
Pedrodowd said on October 1, 2010
hi guys
is anyone else finding it takes ages for itunes to make the change. It took about an hour for three episodes of dexter! I have macbook pro 17 i5 with 4 g ram so shouldn’t be the hardware causing this lag!
Yerachmiel Paquette said on October 7, 2010
Thanks…I was hoping somebody could tell me this. I use it to download music videos from YouTube and classify them properly. Before this was a real pain.
Dawsonj said on October 14, 2010
it is a pain you have to use atomic parsley or mp4tags to set that in the video itself then it will import as a tv show and stay that way
every sync manager like tune ranger gets confused
all your tv shows and music videos you did yourself end up back in movies at the other end arghh
mp4 tags will fix it though
mp4tags -i tvshow movie.mp4
Shastasams said on October 23, 2010
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! I was beating my brains trying to figure this problem out. It works perfectly! Thank you again!
toma said on October 28, 2010
thanx this is what I needed really thanx tooo much ..
Kenjai said on November 4, 2010
Not sure if you’ve figured it out yet, but you might have to look in the options window, after right clicking on the show, and hitting “Get Info”
EP said on November 7, 2010
THANK YOU! you are an unsung hero!
Addison said on November 8, 2010
KICK ASS MAN U ROCK
Jazzyy_bee said on December 20, 2010
Thank mate!
Anne-So said on January 23, 2011
OMG DUDE THANK YOU ! i’ve been trying to sort this out for a freaking long time x)
jogordo said on January 25, 2011
VERY helpful, indeed. thanks!!!
Geoff said on February 24, 2011
Add the video to itunes. Right click, Get info. The “Name” field should be the episode name. The “Artist” field should be the show name. The “Show” field should be the show name. On the Options tab set the video type to TV Show. It will sort and group by show.
Ojonilionis said on March 13, 2011
you rock, thanks!
Pheonix said on March 25, 2011
thnx a ton dude..helped a lot…………………u rock
Chetcutijustine said on April 2, 2011
thank you sooo much
Nick said on August 22, 2011
Thanks heaps!!!! That was really helpful!
Tony said on September 26, 2011
Thanks so much! Finally I resolve that issue!…. U guys R great!
dezandseth said on October 20, 2011
(enter angels singing here) Thanks for this. Easy and right on!