Exporting
Everything under answers the same question in different formats: how do I get the collection out of the program and into something else.
Exports respect the current filter. If the list is showing only unwatched Blu-rays, that is what gets exported. Clear the filter with if you want everything.
HTML — a web site of your collection
Ctrl+H. A window of layout templates opens with a live preview of the first few movies; about forty are supplied, from a plain list to cover walls and disc-box layouts. Choose one, optionally limit how many movies go on a page, and export. The result is a folder of HTML pages with the covers — ready to upload or to open locally.
Double-click a template name to edit it. Templates are ordinary HTML with placeholders, so a designer — or a patient owner — can make the output look like anything.
CHM — the same thing in one file
Ctrl+L. Builds the same pages and packs them into a single Windows help file. Easier to send by e-mail than a folder of images, and it opens on any Windows computer with a table of contents and its own search.
Excel and plain text — the data itself
Ctrl+X for Excel, Ctrl+T for text. Both windows work the same way: pick the fields you want in the output and their order, choose the sort field and direction, and turn on numbering or a header row if you need one. The text export additionally asks for the separator — tab, comma or semicolon — which is what makes it a CSV file for anything else that reads tables.
This is the export to use when the destination is a spreadsheet, a database, or another cataloging program.
Ctrl+F opens the report window and saves the result as PDF. It is the same engine as printing, with the same sixteen report templates — from a compact list to a full page per film with cover and cast. High-quality images gives a better-looking file at the cost of size.
Images — a picture of each card
Ctrl+I. Renders the movie card as a picture: JPEG, PNG, BMP, or AAI for Dune media players. You choose the resolution, how the files are named (movie title, sequence number or a pattern of your own), and where they go — a common folder, a folder per movie, or next to the video file itself. Optional extras include putting the poster into a plastic disc box and generating dune_folder.txt.
The point of this one is media players and file browsers: a picture of the card sitting next to the film is what many of them display.
To a phone or tablet
Ctrl+M, or . Two routes:
- Over the Internet — the easy one. The collection is uploaded to our server; the free All My Movies app for Android or iOS signs in with the same e-mail and password and downloads it. Ask for a password on the first screen if you do not have one yet.
- As a local file — the collection is written to an amm.zip file that you transfer to the device yourself and open in the app. Mostly for troubleshooting.
You can export for a phone or for a tablet (bigger cover images), and you can export only what has been added or changed since the last time.
The reverse direction exists too: rebuilds the collection on a computer from what was uploaded — a rescue route if the database is lost.
All exports work in every mode — trial, free and licensed. Your data is never locked in; see Trial, free mode and licence.
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