Movie tasks
This chapter is about the movies themselves — getting them into the collection, correcting what arrived, finding them again later, and doing something useful with the result.
There are five ways in, and the right one depends on what you are holding:
| What you have | What to use |
|---|---|
| A title in your head | Type it and press Enter |
| A disc in the drive | Adding a DVD or Blu-ray disc |
| A shelf of disc boxes | Scan the barcodes |
| One video file | Adding a movie from a video file |
| A whole drive of video files | Scanning a drive for movies |
In this chapter
- Adding a movie automatically — Type a title and let an online database fill in the cast, plot, poster and rating.
- Adding a DVD or Blu-ray disc — Read a disc in the drive, pick up its title and structure, then complete the card online.
- Adding a disc by barcode — Add discs with a barcode scanner, a webcam or by typing the number, one by one or in batches.
- Adding a movie from a video file — Link a video file to a movie card: technical details and frames are read from the file itself.
- Scanning a drive for movies — Turn a folder full of video files into a catalog, series and episodes included.
- TV series and episodes — Seasons, episodes, episode files and what makes a series different from a movie.
- Covers and screenshots — Where covers come from, how to capture frames from the video and how to scan a disc box.
- Editing a movie — Every tab of the movie card and how to edit several movies at once.
- Batch updating movie details — Refresh ratings, cast or full details for the whole collection from an online database.
- Finding a movie — Fast locate, quick filters, full search and saved personal filters.
- Lending a movie — Record who took a disc, when it is due back and what is overdue.
- Renaming movie files — Rename video files on the disk from the catalog data using a template.
- Copying movie files — Copy the video files of selected movies to a drive, a player or a phone.
- Generating a playlist — Build an M3U or PLS playlist from the movies that have video files.
- Exporting — HTML, CHM, Excel, plain text, PDF, images and the mobile apps.
- Printing — Print the collection or a single movie card, or save the report as PDF or HTML.
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