[chrissix666]

Using latest MC 3.729b.

I have a problem with Home Movies, if anyone can help (tried doing searches on this forum but could find anything related).

I have a Source Folder - D:\Home Movies, and then each home movie has it's own folder.
Problem is that within those folders there are many files i.e. each time you take a video you create a video file.
So, for instance, "Christmas, 2018" might contain 30 video files.

After my initial Search of D:\Home Movies in the main browser, there are hundreds of files listed, as MC is picking them all up separately.
Is there any way MC can just pick up the folders?
i.e. turn off recursive search?

There are many opportunities!

I personally do not scrape home videos, but simply use the Kodi file explorer. (I add the folder as videos but scrape nothing)
I do not need more than the file name. You can see in kodi file explorer folder thumbnails in each folder "folder.jpg" is in there.
In addition, I also see the thumbs of the files. You can see without scrape a poster and a fanart of the file if you created one -> filename.ext-fanart, filename.ext-poster (this overrides the thumb)
So if it's purely about the visual (Arts) the scraping from home videos not necessary.

The only benefit you can gain by scraping home videos is that you can add metadata. But most metadata, whether for movies or episodes, are useless for home videos.

• Yes, you could enter "Release Date" as the recording date.
  
• Add text to a plot.
  
• tagging
  
• Under actors also the people who in the video occur. (So place actor thumbs in .actors folder)
  

But the rest of the metadata is really only for movies or tvshows useful.
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If you really want to do the work with home video scraping, there are several ways to solve your mutliple files problem:

--> Cut everything together in a video program. Use chapters. Use it for .mkv. With .mkv you also get accurate MediaTags in most skins. As @huttdes described

--> Create a TvShow as a Home Video Container and use the seasons as a kind of folder structure and place the video files as episodes. As @Karellen  described

--> Scrape the files as a movie, leave them separate and past/copy the .nfo's (change then only the title suffix "part 1 .." or "chapter 1 .."

--> Scrape the files as a movie and use then file stacking (combining of multi parts to one), MC and Kodi is supporting it. As @vbat99 described
      Point 5.1: https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_file...tacking.29

--> Scrape the "main file" as a movie, and put the "subfiles" into the "extras" folder. And use the extras addon.
     or scrape a "fake file" as a movie (e.g. a preview picture converted to a for e.g. 10 sec movie), and put all files into the extras folder.
     https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Special_Features

(Note: You can also use the local trailer function to use a second file under the main file -> filename-trailer.ext)

No matter if you intend to scrape your home videos or just use them in the file explorer, I use the program "VideoThumbnailsMaker" to generate bulk/batch posters and fanart. MediaCompanion can do that also, but not in bulk/batch but one by one.
Then i use Bulk Rename Utility to bulk/batch add -poster and -fanart als suffix.

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If you scrape as Movie, i would never want Hollywood Movies and Home Movies to appear in the same list.
You can do this by using a skin with customizable home menu.
You can then separate it by creating 2 entries with playlists and a different folder paths are defined in the playlist.
Alternatively, you can also separate with tags. But every Hollywood movie has to have the same tag, and every home movie the same tag.