P: Allow Lightroom Classic to Catalog Unsupported Video Files (Visibility Only)

I’d like to request a feature that would significantly improve Lightroom Classic as a media catalog, especially for modern hybrid photo/video creators.

Request:

Please allow Lightroom Classic to catalog and display unsupported video files (thumbnail + basic metadata + tagging), even if playback or editing is not supported.

To be very clear:

I am not asking for editing, scrubbing, reframing, or decoding support.

I only want the file to be visible in the catalog so I know it exists.

Why this matters

Many of us use Lightroom Classic as our primary organizational hub — our “single pane of glass” to see all photo and video assets at a glance.

However, Lightroom currently completely ignores video files it doesn’t recognize at the codec/container level. This makes those files effectively invisible, even though they are critical parts of our projects.

A major real-world example:

• Insta360 cameras (X3, X4, X5) are now extremely common

• Their native video formats (e.g. .insv) are widely used

• These files are entirely invisible in Lightroom Classic

This forces users to maintain parallel systems, proxy hacks, or external spreadsheets just to remember footage exists, which defeats the purpose of Lightroom as a catalog.