Editing a movie

Select a movie and press Ctrl+E, or double-click it in the list if playback on double-click is switched off, or choose Movie › Edit…. The movie card opens with six tabs.

General

What the film is: Title, Original title, Year, Country, Director, Scenario, Actors, Description, Rating, Bar code and Date added. Genres are set separately as a Main genre plus any number of Additional ones — the main genre is what grouping and the quick filter use.

Two checkboxes carry a lot of weight: Seen and Wishlist. They are what Quick filter works on, so keeping them honest is what makes “what have I not watched?” a one-click question.

Typing into Title or Original title and pressing Enter re-runs the online lookup and refills the card — the way to fix a card that was filled from the wrong film.

Additional

Comments of your own, the age rating (MPAA), the Studio, and the technical block: duration, file size, resolution, aspect ratio, subtitles, video codec, frame rate, bitrate and the audio streams. The technical fields are normally read from the video file or the disc, but every one of them can be typed over.

Media info

Where the film physically is and what it is on: Type (DVD, Blu-ray, file…), Media count for a film spread over several discs or files, Location, Label, Local path to the video file, URL of the page the details came from, Trailer link, Price, Quality and the Movie number, which can be assigned automatically.

The small buttons next to Location, Type and Quality open the matching directory, so a missing value can be added without leaving the card.

Screenshots, Custom fields, Episodes

Screenshots holds the images and their order — see Covers and screenshots. Custom fields holds the fields you invented yourself; Configure fields on that tab adds and removes them. Episodes appears for series — see TV series and episodes.

Moving through the collection

The arrows in the card header move to the previous and next movie without closing it (Alt+Left and Alt+Right) — the comfortable way to go through a newly imported collection tidying as you go. Ctrl+Enter accepts the card.

Editing many movies at once

Select several movies in the list (with Ctrl or Shift; Multiple movie selection must be on in Preferences) and open the card. It opens in group mode, and whatever you fill in is written to every selected movie. Fields you leave empty are not touched.

• To clear a field in all of them, type <DEL> into it.
• Personal marks have three states: grey means leave alone, ticked means set the mark, unticked means remove it.
• The program lists what it is about to change, in how many movies, before it does anything.

Group editing is the fast way to set the media location for a shelf's worth of discs, mark a season watched, or fix a studio name that came in misspelled.