Covers and screenshots
A movie card has one cover — the poster or the disc box — and any number of screenshots. Both usually arrive by themselves, but every route is available when they do not.
The cover
| From the online database | Downloaded together with the rest of the details when the movie is added. Nothing to do. |
| Download Cover | F2. Fetches a bigger version of the poster for a movie that already has a small one, or a poster for a card that has none. |
| Add Cover… | Ctrl+R. From a file on the disk. |
| Paste image as Cover | From the clipboard — the right-click menu of the movie list. Copy a poster in the browser, paste it here. |
| Get cover from TWAIN (scanner) | F11. Scans the disc box on a flatbed scanner. The window that opens lets you crop the result, undo the crop, and save it either as the cover or as a screenshot. |
| Use as Cover | Promotes one of the existing screenshots to be the cover. |
Nothing found online and no scanner? A photograph of the box taken with a phone, cropped, does the job perfectly well. Paste it from the clipboard.
Screenshots
Screenshots are the pictures below the cover: frames from the film, publicity stills, a photograph of the disc. There is no limit on how many a card holds.
| Add screenshot | Ctrl+S, from an image file. |
| Capture from video | Grabs a frame from the linked video file. Requires Local path to point at a file that exists. |
| Batch capture | With Use batch capture function on in Preferences, the program grabs a set of frames by itself when a movie is added — you choose how many, and whether they are taken at random or at equal intervals through the film. |
| From the online database | Downloaded with the movie details when Import screenshots is on in Preferences. |
| Paste image as Screenshot | From the clipboard. |
The right-click menu of a screenshot also offers Modify hint (a caption of your own), Save screenshot and Save all screenshots to files, Use as Cover, and deletion of one image or of all of them at once. On the Screenshots tab of the card, arrow buttons change the order in which they are shown.
Tagging people in pictures
The tag button under the preview marks who is in the picture. A tagged photo then shows up on that person's card in the names directory as well.
Where the images are kept, and how big the file gets
By default everything is stored inside the .amm file. That is
convenient — one file is the whole collection — but images are what
makes it grow, and the format has a hard limit of 2 GB.
- Store all the images inside the database (Expert options in Preferences) can be turned off: images then live in a folder next to the database and the file shrinks dramatically. The program converts an existing collection either way.
- Resize massive images shrinks oversized downloads to something sensible as they arrive.
- Use low resolution for the screenshot previews makes browsing a card with many screenshots noticeably faster.
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