ITunes movie classification

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I have a few .mp4 files that I have added to iTunes.
Some are classified as Home Movies and other are My Movies.
I was wondering if there is any way to change this maybe by converting to a certain file type. I was also wondering how does iTunes determine this.

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Or use Subler, which allows auto & manual metadata & poster art tagging as well as muxing/remuxing of any of a video file’s subtitle, audio, chapter or closed caption tracks. It’s very light weight & I prefer it to all the other video taggers I’ve tried. You can change the ‘type’ of file from home video to movie very easily as well as set HD and other tags. Any changes made to a file already appearing in your iTunes library should be automatically revealed when you either click it to reveal the cast & synopsis information or with Get Info; in other words, you do not need to remove the file & reimport it, as the changes will be recognized in place. Just make sure you go up to the File menu item & hit Save.

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As per this MacRumors forum post:

There are three ways to get .avi files to load into the iTunes library, these are packaging it in a supported format (QT-Pro workaround), adding extra entries to the CFBundleDocumentTypes (may cause problems when updating iTunes) or adding the movie-type meta-data to the file. Adding the movie-type meta-data to the file is the quickest, easiest and safest of all of these options (IMHO).

He then outlines a method to add the movie-type metadata.

in Terminal (requires Dev Tools)

$ SetFile -t "MooV" /path/to/movie.avi

Then run this Applescript:

tell application "Finder"
   set file type of file this_file to "MooV"
end tell

The original post I linked above has a full Applescript droplet or Folder Action that could do this automatically.

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Handbrake keeps individual logs for every encode. You can find them in ~/Library/Application Support/HandBrake/EncodeLogs.

If an encode fails, it should contain any relevant information on why it failed.

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