@mitu said in How can I point Emulation Station video clip references to where the clips are stored (and used by Attract Mode)?:

Actually there is a configuration to make EmulationStation look automatically for media (video/boxart/marquee) - it's called 'Enable Local Art', in the Other settings.
When enabled, EmulationStation it will look for images/<game>-image.png, images/<game>-video.mp4 and images/<game>-marquee.png (.jpg work also) and use the found media instead of looking in the gamelist.xml.

Nice one mitu, this will save me quite a bit of time, as I am spending a lot more time on the retropie, than before, due to lockdown and furlouh. Sorry Vegasdude, didn't realise you knew about the paths and that, I probably read too much in your question. Never mind Mitu has given us both a good solution :-)